8-letter words containing c, i, t, s
- castries — the capital and chief port of St Lucia. Pop: 14 000 (2005 est)
- casuists — Plural form of casuist.
- cat suit — a jumpsuit.
- catbirds — Plural form of catbird.
- cathexis — concentration of psychic energy on a single goal
- cathisma — a short hymn used as a response
- catslide — (in early American architecture) a steep roof ending close to the ground, as on a saltbox.
- catstick — a broomstick or other stick used as a bat, especially in playing tipcat.
- catsuits — Plural form of catsuit.
- cattails — Plural form of cattail.
- cattiest — catlike; feline.
- caustics — Plural form of caustic.
- cautions — alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness: Landslides ahead—proceed with caution.
- cautious — Someone who is cautious acts very carefully in order to avoid possible danger.
- cavities — Plural form of cavity.
- cellists — Plural form of cellist.
- celloist — (rare) synonym of cellist.
- centesis — the surgical puncturing of a part of the body with a hollow needle in order to extract fluid
- centimes — Plural form of centime.
- centimos — Plural form of centimo.
- centoist — a person who composes centos
- centries — Plural form of centry.
- centrism — (especially in continental Europe) a member of a political party of the Center; moderate.
- centrist — Centrist policies and parties are moderate rather than extreme.
- ceramist — a person who works in ceramics; ceramic artist
- cerritos — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 51,000
- cessavit — (UK, legal, obsolete) A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.
- cesspits — Plural form of cesspit.
- chaotics — (literature) A recent branch of literary and cultural studies based on chaos theory and the inherent structure of apparently chaotic systems.
- chapatis — Plural form of chapati.
- chariest — Superlative form of chary.
- chariots — Plural form of chariot.
- chartism — the principles of the reform movement in Britain from 1838 to 1848, which included manhood suffrage, payment of Members of Parliament, equal electoral districts, annual parliaments, voting by ballot, and the abolition of property qualifications for MPs
- chartist — a stock market specialist who analyses and predicts market trends from graphs of recent price and volume movements of selected securities
- chasting — Present participle of chast.
- chastise — If you chastise someone, you speak to them angrily or punish them for something wrong that they have done.
- chastity — the state of being chaste; purity
- chastize — Alternative form of chastise.
- chemists — Plural form of chemist.
- chestier — Comparative form of chesty.
- chestily — in a self-important and arrogant manner
- chewiest — Superlative form of chewy.
- chiantis — Plural form of chianti.
- chiastic — characterized by chiasmus.
- chiefest — the head or leader of an organized body of people; the person highest in authority: the chief of police.
- chiliast — (Christianity) One who believes that Jesus will reign over Earth for a thousand years.
- chillest — coldness, especially a moderate but uncomfortably penetrating coldness: the chill of evening.
- chinfest — gabfest; bull session; rap session.
- chintzes — Plural form of chintz.
- chip set — (hardware) A collection of integrated circuits that are designed to be used together for some specific purpose. E.g. control circuitry in an IBM PC.