8-letter words containing c, i, n
- albicant — (rare) Growing or becoming white.
- alchuine — (Ealhwine Flaccus) a.d. 735–804, English theologian and scholar: teacher and adviser of Charlemagne.
- alcidine — of, relating to, or belonging to the Alcidae, a family of sea birds including the auks, guillemots, puffins, and related forms
- alcindor — (Ferdinand) Lew(is, Jr.) original name of Abdul-Jabbar.
- alcinous — (in Homer's Odyssey) a Phaeacian king at whose court the shipwrecked Odysseus told of his wanderings
- alicante — a port in SE Spain: commercial centre. Pop: 305 911 (2003 est)
- alliance — An alliance is a group of countries or political parties that are formally united and working together because they have similar aims.
- aluminic — of or relating to aluminium
- ambiance — the mood, character, quality, tone, atmosphere, etc., particularly of an environment or milieu: The restaurant had a delightful ambiance.
- ambience — The ambience of a place is the character and atmosphere that it seems to have.
- amercing — Present participle of amerce.
- american — An American is a person who comes from the United States of America.
- amikacin — a wide-spectrum semisynthetic antibiotic, C 22 H 45 N 5 O 13 , used in the treatment of infections, especially those caused by susceptible Gram-negative bacilli.
- ammoniac — a strong-smelling gum resin obtained from the stems of the N Asian umbelliferous plant Dorema ammoniacum and formerly used as an expectorant, stimulant, perfume, and in porcelain cement
- amnesiac — Someone who is amnesiac has lost their memory.
- amnestic — causing amnesia
- amnionic — Amniotic.
- amniotic — of or relating to the amnion
- amplicon — A piece of DNA or RNA formed as the products of natural or artificial amplification events, as in a polymerase chain reaction.
- anabatic — (of air currents) rising upwards, esp up slopes
- anabolic — of or relating to anabolism
- anacusis — total deafness.
- anagogic — of or relating to an anagoge.
- analcime — a hard, colorless or white zeolite, NaAlSi2O6·H2O, commonly found in basalts
- analcite — a white, grey, or colourless zeolite mineral consisting of hydrated sodium aluminium silicate in cubic crystalline form. Formula: NaAlSi2O6.H2O
- analogic — based on, involving, or expressing an analogy.
- analytic — Analytic means the same as analytical.
- anamonic — A mnemonic used for recalling lists of words, particularly in Scrabble, consisting of a \"stem\" of base letters and an accompanying phrase, each of whose letters can combine with the stem to form an anagram of a word.
- anarchic — If you describe someone or something as anarchic, you disapprove of them because they do not recognize or obey any rules or laws.
- anatomic — of or relating to anatomy
- anch'ing — a city in S Anhui province, in E China, on the Chang Jiang: former capital of Anhui.
- anchises — a Trojan prince and father of Aeneas. In the Aeneid, he is rescued by his son at the fall of Troy and dies in Sicily
- anchusin — alkanet (sense 1) alkanet (sense 1c)
- ancients — Plural form of ancient.
- anconoid — resembling the ancon or elbow
- anctious — Obsolete form of anxious.
- anechoic — having a low degree of reverberation of sound
- anephric — (pathology) Without functioning kidneys.
- angelica — Angelica is the candied stems of the angelica plant which can be used in making cakes or sweets.
- angelico — Fra (fra), original name Guido di Pietro; monastic name Fra Giovanni da Fiesole. ?1400–55, Italian fresco painter and Dominican friar
- anglican — Anglican means belonging or relating to the Church of England, or to the churches related to it.
- anicetus — Saint, pope a.d. 155?–166?.
- aniconic — (of images of deities, symbols, etc) not portrayed in a human or animal form
- animalic — relating to animals
- animatic — an initial edition or forerunner of a film, often a commercial, which contains a sequence of storyboard shots accompanied by a soundtrack
- anodynic — relating to the soothing or alleviating of pain
- anomeric — (organic chemistry) Of, or pertaining to anomers.
- anorchia — An intersex condition of XY individuals where both testes are absent at birth.
- anorexic — If someone is anorexic, they are suffering from anorexia and so are very thin.
- antacids — Plural form of antacid.