8-letter words containing c, i, t, s
- gunstick — a ramrod
- haircuts — Plural form of haircut.
- hemisect — to cut into two equal parts; to bisect, especially along a medial longitudinal plane.
- hepatics — Plural form of hepatic.
- heretics — Plural form of heretic.
- hicksite — a member of the liberal body of Quakers in the U.S., who asserted the sufficiency of the Inner Light in religious life.
- hindcast — to test (a mathematical model) by observing whether it would have correctly predicted a historical event
- historic — well-known or important in history: a historic building; historic occasions.
- holistic — incorporating the concept of holism, or the idea that the whole is more than merely the sum of its parts, in theory or practice: holistic psychology.
- hutchins — Robert Maynard, 1899–1977, U.S. educator and college president.
- hylicist — a philosopher specializing in matter
- hypocist — a type of juice derived from the fruit of a plant which grows from the Cistus shrub
- hysteric — Usually, hysterics. a fit of uncontrollable laughter or weeping; hysteria.
- hystoric — Nonstandard spelling of historic.
- iceboats — Plural form of iceboat.
- icestone — a rare crystalline mineral also known as cryolite
- ichnites — Plural form of ichnite.
- ignostic — One who holds to ignosticism.
- in stock — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
- incipits — Plural form of incipit.
- infarcts — Plural form of infarct.
- inflects — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inflect.
- inflicts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inflict.
- infracts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of infract.
- inscient — Lacking knowledge; ignorant.
- insculpt — engraved
- insectan — Of or relating to insects.
- inspects — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inspect.
- instance — a case or occurrence of anything: fresh instances of oppression.
- instancy — quality of being instant; urgency; pressing nature.
- instinct — an inborn pattern of activity or tendency to action common to a given biological species.
- instruct — to furnish with knowledge, especially by a systematic method; teach; train; educate.
- iotacism — the conversion of other vowel sounds, especially in Modern Greek, into (ē), the sound of iota.
- iscariot — the surname of Judas, the betrayer of Jesus. Mark 3:19; 14:10, 11.
- isostacy — Geology. the equilibrium of the earth's crust, a condition in which the forces tending to elevate balance those tending to depress.
- isotachs — Plural form of isotach.
- isotimic — (of a line or surface in space) having an equal value of some quantity at a given time.
- isotonic — Also, isosmotic. Physical Chemistry. noting or pertaining to solutions characterized by equal osmotic pressure. Compare hypertonic (def 2), hypotonic (def 2).
- isotopic — any of two or more forms of a chemical element, having the same number of protons in the nucleus, or the same atomic number, but having different numbers of neutrons in the nucleus, or different atomic weights. There are 275 isotopes of the 81 stable elements, in addition to over 800 radioactive isotopes, and every element has known isotopic forms. Isotopes of a single element possess almost identical properties.
- isotypic — of or relating to an isotype.
- itchiest — Superlative form of itchy.
- jackshit — Alternative spelling of jack shit.
- jesuitic — of or relating to Jesuits or Jesuitism.
- jocosity — the state or quality of being jocose.
- joystick — Informal. the control stick of an airplane, tank, or other vehicle.
- juiciest — Superlative form of juicy.
- juristic — of or relating to a jurist or to jurisprudence; juridical.
- justicer — a judge or magistrate.
- justices — Plural form of justice.
- justicia — any of numerous plants and shrubs of the genus Justicia, which includes the shrimp plant and water willow.