6-letter words containing c, i, t, o
- goetic — relating to witchcraft
- gothic — (usually initial capital letter) noting or pertaining to a style of architecture, originating in France in the middle of the 12th century and existing in the western half of Europe through the middle of the 16th century, characterized by the use of the pointed arch and the ribbed vault, by the use of fine woodwork and stonework, by a progressive lightening of structure, and by the use of such features as flying buttresses, ornamental gables, crockets, and foils.
- isotac — a line drawn on a map connecting all points where ice starts to melt at approximately the same period in spring.
- lictor — (in ancient Rome) one of a body of attendants on chief magistrates, who preceded them carrying the fasces and whose duties included executing the sentences of criminals.
- matico — a Peruvian shrub, Piper angustifolium, the leaves of which have medicinal properties
- miotic — pertaining to or producing miosis.
- myotic — pertaining to or producing miosis.
- nocti- — night
- noctis — (in prescriptions) of the night.
- noetic — of or relating to the mind.
- notice — an announcement or intimation of something impending; warning: a day's notice.
- ocicat — a breed of large short-haired cat with a spotted coat
- octile — (statistics) Any of the quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into eight equally numerous subsets.
- octopi — any octopod of the genus Octopus, having a soft, oval body and eight sucker-bearing arms, living mostly at the bottom of the sea.
- octroi — (formerly especially in France and Italy) a local tax levied on certain articles, such as foodstuffs, on their entry into a city.
- oecist — a person who colonizes, particularly in Ancient Greece
- omotic — a proposed branch of the Afroasiatic family comprising a group of languages spoken in Ethiopia and often included within the Cushitic branch.
- optics — the eye.
- otitic — (medicine) Relating to otitis, or inflammation of the ear.
- photic — of or relating to light.
- picote — ornamented or embroidered with picots
- pictor — a faint constellation in the S hemisphere lying between Dorado and Carina
- poetic — possessing the qualities or charm of poetry: poetic descriptions of nature.
- pontic — an artificial tooth in a bridge.
- ptotic — a drooping of the upper eyelid.
- rhotic — of or relating to a dialect of English in which the r is pronounced at the end of a syllable or before a consonant: Midwestern American English is rhotic, while Southern British English is not.
- scioto — a river in central Ohio, flowing S to the Ohio River. 237 miles (382 km) long.
- scotia — Scotland.
- scotti — Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1866–1936, Italian baritone.
- sitcom — situation comedy.
- sothic — the name for the star Sirius, the Dog Star, given by the ancient Egyptians.
- tercio — a regiment of Spanish or Italian infantry
- thicko — a slow-witted unintelligent person
- thoric — a grayish-white, lustrous, somewhat ductile and malleable, radioactive metallic element present in monazite: used as a source of nuclear energy, as a coating on sun-lamp and vacuum-tube filament coatings, and in alloys. Symbol: Th; atomic weight: 232.038; atomic number: 90; specific gravity: 11.7.
- ticino — a canton in S Switzerland. 1086 sq. mi. (2813 sq. km). Capital: Bellinzona.
- tictoc — to emit or produce a ticking sound, like that of a clock.
- tochis — tokus.
- tocsin — a signal, especially of alarm, sounded on a bell or bells.
- toluic — of or derived from toluic acid.
- tricot — a warp-knit fabric of various natural or synthetic fibers, as wool, silk, or nylon, having fine vertical ribs on the face and horizontal ribs on the back, used especially for making garments.
- tropic — Geography. either of two corresponding parallels of latitude on the terrestrial globe, one (tropic of Cancer) about 23½° N, and the other (tropic of Capricorn) about 23½° S of the equator, being the boundaries of the Torrid Zone. the tropics, the regions lying between and near these parallels of latitude; the Torrid Zone and neighboring regions.
- victor — (Dauferius) 1027–87, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1086–87.
- zitcom — A sitcom aimed at a teen audience or revolving around teen characters.
- zoetic — (rare) Of or pertaining to life.