10-letter words containing c, i
- accrington — a town in NW England, in SE Lancashire. Pop: 35 203 (2001)
- accubation — the action or state of leaning backwards, esp at a table for meals
- accuminate — Tapering to a point.
- accuracies — Plural form of accuracy.
- accusation — If you make an accusation against someone, you criticize them or express the belief that they have done something wrong.
- accusative — In the grammar of some languages, the accusative, or the accusative case, is the case used for a noun when it is the direct object of a verb, or the object of some prepositions. In English, only the pronouns 'me', 'him', 'her', 'us', and 'them' are in the accusative. Compare nominative.
- accusingly — to charge with the fault, offense, or crime (usually followed by of): He accused him of murder.
- acerbating — Present participle of acerbate.
- acerbation — (rare) Bitterness of feeling.
- acervation — a heaping or piling up, gathering, accumulation
- acetanilid — Alternative form of acetanilide.
- acetifying — Present participle of acetify.
- acetimeter — acetometer
- acetonemia — ketonemia.
- acetonuria — ketonuria.
- acetylenic — (organic chemistry) Of or pertaining to acetylene or its derivatives; having a carbon-to-carbon triple bond.
- acetylides — Plural form of acetylide.
- achaemenid — any member of a Persian dynasty of kings, including Cyrus the Great, that ruled from about 550 to 331 bc, when Darius III was overthrown by Alexander the Great
- acherontic — Of or pertaining to Acheron; infernal; hence, dismal, gloomy; moribund.
- achievable — If you say that something you are trying to do is achievable, you mean that it is possible for you to succeed in doing it.
- achimelech — Ahimelech.
- achitophel — Ahithophel
- achondrite — a rare stony meteorite that consists mainly of silicate minerals and has the texture of igneous rock but contains no chondrules
- achromasia — Absence of normal skin pigmentation (from bruising, stress or disease); pallor or achromia.
- achromatic — without colour
- achromatin — the material of the nucleus of a cell that does not stain with basic dyes
- achromycin — tetracycline
- acicularly — In an acicular way.
- aciculated — Alternative form of aciculate.
- acid freak — a person taking or having taken LSD regularly and heavily, such that their psychological state has been affected
- acid house — Acid house is a type of electronic dance music with a strong, repeated rhythm.
- acid value — the number of milligrams of potassium hydroxide required to neutralize the free fatty acid in one gram of a fat, oil, resin, etc
- acid-proof — resistant to the action of acid
- acidifying — Present participle of acidify.
- acidimeter — any instrument or standard solution for determining the amount of acid in a sample solution
- acidimetry — the determination of the amount of acid present in a solution, measured by an acidimeter or by volumetric analysis
- acidogenic — producing acid, as bacteria, or causing acidity, as of the urine.
- acidolysis — decomposition resulting from the interaction of a compound and an acid.
- acidometer — a type of hydrometer for measuring the relative density of an acid solution, esp the acid in a battery
- acidophile — Biology, Ecology. acidophilic.
- acidophils — Plural form of acidophil.
- acidulated — Simple past tense and past participle of acidulate.
- acidulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of acidulate.
- acinaceous — containing or consisting of kernels, particularly the seeds or stones of grapes
- acinarious — covered with globose vesicles resembling grape seeds, as certain algae.
- acoustical — acoustic; specif., having to do with the control of sound
- acousticks — Obsolete form of acoustics.
- acquainted — If you are acquainted with something, you know about it because you have learned it or experienced it.
- acquiesced — to assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest; agree; consent: to acquiesce halfheartedly in a business plan.
- acquiesces — to assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest; agree; consent: to acquiesce halfheartedly in a business plan.