8-letter words containing c, i, s, t, e, r
- enterics — (biology) Gram-negative eubacteria that inhabit intestines.
- enticers — Plural form of enticer.
- ergastic — consisting of the non-living by-products of protoplasmic activity
- eristics — Plural form of eristic.
- erratics — Plural form of erratic.
- esoteric — Intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest.
- exciters — Plural form of exciter.
- exorcist — A person, especially a priest, who practices exorcism.
- fiercest — menacingly wild, savage, or hostile: fierce animals; a fierce look.
- heretics — Plural form of heretic.
- hysteric — Usually, hysterics. a fit of uncontrollable laughter or weeping; hysteria.
- justicer — a judge or magistrate.
- matrices — something that constitutes the place or point from which something else originates, takes form, or develops: The Greco-Roman world was the matrix for Western civilization.
- meristic — of, relating to, or divided into segments or somites.
- mistrace — to trace incorrectly
- mitscher — Marc Andrew, 1887–1947, U.S. naval officer and aviator.
- outcries — Plural form of outcry.
- patrices — a mold of a Linotype for casting right-reading type for use in dry offset.
- persicot — a sweet beverage that is made from the stones of apricots or peaches that are soaked or pulverized in distilled liquid or alcohol
- pictures — a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.: I carry a picture of my grandchild in my wallet.
- piecrust — the crust or shell of a pie.
- practise — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- receipts — a written acknowledgment of having received, or taken into one's possession, a specified amount of money, goods, etc.
- rectitis — an inflammation of the rectum
- rescript — a written answer, as of a Roman emperor or a pope, to a query or petition in writing.
- restitch — one complete movement of a threaded needle through a fabric or material such as to leave behind it a single loop or portion of thread, as in sewing, embroidery, or the surgical closing of wounds.
- restrict — to confine or keep within limits, as of space, action, choice, intensity, or quantity.
- scariest — causing fright or alarm.
- scienter — a mental state in which one has knowledge that one’s action, statement, etc., is wrong, deceptive, or illegal: often used as a standard of guilt: The court found that the company had the requisite scienter for securities fraud.
- sclerite — any chitinous, calcareous, or similar hard part, plate, spicule, or the like.
- scripted — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- scripter — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- scutiger — any species of the Scutigera genus which includes many types of centipede
- secretin — a polypeptide hormone, produced in the small intestine, that activates the pancreas to secrete pancreatic juice.
- security — freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
- selictar — the sword-bearer of a chieftain
- sericate — sericeous; silky.
- sericite — a fine-grained variety of muscovite produced by the alteration of feldspar.
- spectrin — a rodlike structural protein of the red blood cell membrane.
- spitcher — the end or finish
- sterical — of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
- stickler — a person who insists on something unyieldingly (usually followed by for): a stickler for ceremony.
- stitcher — one complete movement of a threaded needle through a fabric or material such as to leave behind it a single loop or portion of thread, as in sewing, embroidery, or the surgical closing of wounds.
- stricken — a past participle of strike.
- strickle — a straightedge used for sweeping off heaped-up grain to the level of the rim of a measure.
- stricter — characterized by or acting in close conformity to requirements or principles: a strict observance of rituals.
- suricate — a small, burrowing South African carnivore, Suricata suricatta, of a grayish color with dark bands across the back, related to the mongooses and having social behavior similar to that of prairie dogs.
- trackies — loose-fitting trousers with elasticated cuffs, designed to be worn as part of a tracksuit
- trisemic — relating to a triseme
- veristic — the theory that rigid representation of truth and reality is essential to art and literature, and therefore the ugly and vulgar must be included.