8-letter words containing c, i, t, y, a
- facility — Often, facilities. something designed, built, installed, etc., to serve a specific function affording a convenience or service: transportation facilities; educational facilities; a new research facility. something that permits the easier performance of an action, course of conduct, etc.: to provide someone with every facility for accomplishing a task; to lack facilities for handling bulk mail.
- fat city — an easy and prosperous condition or circumstance: With a new house and a better-paying job, she's in Fat City.
- feracity — (obsolete) The state of being feracious, or fruitful.
- fugacity — fleeting; transitory: a sensational story with but a fugacious claim on the public's attention.
- furacity — (obsolete) Addictedness to theft; thievishness.
- hyacinth — a female given name.
- ice tray — container for freezing water into cubes
- imitancy — a tendency to imitate
- instancy — quality of being instant; urgency; pressing nature.
- intactly — in an intact manner
- intimacy — the state of being intimate.
- isostacy — Geology. the equilibrium of the earth's crust, a condition in which the forces tending to elevate balance those tending to depress.
- literacy — the quality or state of being literate, especially the ability to read and write.
- locality — a place, spot, or district, with or without reference to things or persons in it or to occurrences there: They moved to another locality.
- macintoy — /mak'in-toy/ The Apple Macintosh, considered as a toy. Less pejorative than Macintrash.
- megacity — a city having a population of one million or more.
- minacity — menacing; threatening.
- mystical — mystic; of or relating to supernatural agencies, affairs, occurrences, etc.: a strange, mystical experience.
- mytacism — Excessive or incorrect use of the letter M.
- mythical — pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a myth.
- nugacity — triviality; insignificance.
- nycturia — a condition in which one often wakes up during the night to urinate.
- optimacy — Government by the nobility.
- oxytocia — rapid childbirth.
- patchily — characterized by or made up of patches.
- rapacity — given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
- retiracy — retirement
- sacristy — an apartment in or a building connected with a church or a religious house, in which the sacred vessels, vestments, etc., are kept.
- sagacity — acuteness of mental discernment and soundness of judgment.
- salacity — lustful or lecherous.
- sanctify — to make holy; set apart as sacred; consecrate.
- sanctity — holiness, saintliness, or godliness.
- scantily — scant in amount, quantity, etc.; barely sufficient.
- scantity — the quality of being scant or scarce
- scarcity — insufficiency or shortness of supply; dearth.
- scythian — pertaining to Scythia, its people, or their language.
- staticky — containing or producing static electricity.
- sylvatic — sylvan.
- synaptic — Also called syndesis. Cell Biology. the pairing of homologous chromosomes, one from each parent, during early meiosis.
- syncytia — a multinucleate mass of cytoplasm that is not separated into cells.
- tenacity — the quality of being tenacious, or of holding fast; persistence: the amazing tenacity of rumors.
- triarchy — government by three persons.
- tympanic — pertaining or belonging to a tympanum.
- tyrannic — of or characteristic of a tyrant.
- ultimacy — the state or quality of being ultimate.
- veracity — habitual observance of truth in speech or statement; truthfulness: He was not noted for his veracity.
- vivacity — the quality or state of being vivacious.
- vocality — of, relating to, or uttered with the voice: the vocal mechanism; vocal criticism.
- voracity — the condition or quality of being voracious.
- yachties — Plural form of yachty.