7-letter words containing c, i, s
- czarism — the Russian government under the czars
- czarist — a variant spelling (esp US) of tsarist
- dacoits — Plural form of dacoit.
- de sica — Vittorio (vitˈtɔːrjo). 1902–74, Italian film actor and director. His films, in the neorealist tradition, include Shoeshine (1946) and Bicycle Thieves (1948)
- deceits — Plural form of deceit.
- decides — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decide.
- deciles — Plural form of decile.
- decimus — (in prescriptions) tenth.
- decries — to speak disparagingly of; denounce as faulty or worthless; express censure of: She decried the lack of support for the arts in this country.
- dehisce — (of fruits, anthers, etc) to burst open spontaneously, releasing seeds, pollen, etc
- deicers — Plural form of deicer.
- deistic — a person who believes in deism.
- delicts — Plural form of delict.
- depicts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depict.
- devices — a thing made for a particular purpose; an invention or contrivance, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
- diascia — a S African plant with pink flowers
- dibasic — (of an acid, such as sulphuric acid, H2SO4) containing two acidic hydrogen atoms
- dickens — Charles (John Huffam), pen name Boz. 1812–70, English novelist, famous for the humour and sympathy of his characterization and his criticism of social injustice. His major works include The Pickwick Papers (1837), Oliver Twist (1839), Nicholas Nickleby (1839), Old Curiosity Shop (1840–41), Martin Chuzzlewit (1844), David Copperfield (1850), Bleak House (1853), Little Dorrit (1857), and Great Expectations (1861)
- dickers — Plural form of dicker.
- dickeys — Plural form of dickey.
- dickish — (US, colloquial, coarse, pejorative) Offensively unpleasant and vexatious.
- dickson — Leonard Eugene, 1874–1954, U.S. mathematician.
- dictums — Plural form of dictum.
- diocese — an ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
- dioscin — a saponin, found in Mexican yams, that on hydrolysis produces diosgenin, glucose, and rhamnose.
- directs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of direct.
- discage — to release (an animal or bird) from a cage
- discant — Also, discantus [dis-kan-tuh s] /dɪsˈkæn təs/ (Show IPA). Music. a 13th-century polyphonic style with strict mensural meter in all the voice parts, in contrast to the metrically free organum of the period.
- discard — to cast aside or dispose of; get rid of: to discard an old hat.
- discase — to take the case or covering from; uncase.
- discept — To debate; to discuss.
- discern — to perceive by the sight or some other sense or by the intellect; see, recognize, or apprehend: They discerned a sail on the horizon.
- discerp — To tear into pieces; to rend.
- discide — (obsolete) To cut apart; to cut into pieces.
- discing — any thin, flat, circular plate or object.
- discman — a small portable CD player with light headphones
- discoed — Simple past tense and past participle of disco.
- discoer — a person who attends discos
- discoid — having the form of a discus or disk; flat and circular.
- discord — lack of concord or harmony between persons or things: marital discord.
- discure — (obsolete) To discover; to reveal.
- discuss — to consider or examine by argument, comment, etc.; talk over or write about, especially to explore solutions; debate: to discuss the proposed law on taxes.
- disject — to scatter; disperse.
- disomic — having an extra chromosome in the haploid state that is homologous to an existing chromosome in this set
- dispace — to move or travel about
- dissect — to cut apart (an animal body, plant, etc.) to examine the structure, relation of parts, or the like.
- distich — a unit of two lines of verse, usually a self-contained statement; couplet.
- ditches — Plural form of ditch.
- drastic — acting with force or violence; violent.
- driesch — Hans Adolf Eduard (hans ˈaːdɔlf ˈɛdʊɑːd). 1867–1941, German zoologist and embryologist