6-letter words containing c, i
- aeonic — lasting for an aeon
- africa — the second largest of the continents, on the Mediterranean in the north, the Atlantic in the west, and the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, and Indian Ocean in the east. The Sahara desert divides the continent unequally into North Africa (an early centre of civilization, in close contact with Europe and W Asia, now inhabited chiefly by Arabs) and Africa south of the Sahara (relatively isolated from the rest of the world until the 19th century and inhabited chiefly by Negroid peoples). It was colonized mainly in the 18th and 19th centuries by Europeans and now comprises independent nations. The largest lake is Lake Victoria and the chief rivers are the Nile, Niger, Congo, and Zambezi. Pop: 1 100 000 000 (2013 est). Area: about 30 300 000 sq km (11 700 000 sq miles)
- agamic — asexual; occurring or reproducing without fertilization
- agaric — any saprotrophic basidiomycetous fungus of the family Agaricaceae, having gills on the underside of the cap. The group includes the edible mushrooms and poisonous forms such as the fly agaric
- agogic — Music. stress given to a note through prolonged duration.
- agonic — forming no angle
- aimaco — AIr MAterial COmmand compiler
- aircav — air cavalry.
- alaric — ?370–410 ad, king of the Visigoths, who served under the Roman emperor Theodosius I but later invaded Greece and Italy, capturing Rome in 410
- alcaic — of or relating to a metre used by the 7th-century bc Greek lyric poet Alcaeus, consisting of a strophe of four lines each with four feet
- alcids — Plural form of alcid.
- alcuin — 735–804 ad, English scholar and theologian; friend and adviser of Charlemagne
- alexic — relating to or of the neurological condition alexia
- alicia — a feminine name
- allice — A fish, the allis shad (Alosa alosa). (from 17th c.).
- alnico — an alloy of aluminium, nickel, cobalt, iron, and copper, used to make permanent magnets
- altaic — a postulated family of languages of Asia and SE Europe, consisting of the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic branches, and perhaps also Japanese, Korean, and Ainu
- amebic — of, relating to, or resembling an ameba.
- amical — (now rare) Friendly, amicable.
- amicus — an abbreviation of amicus curiae
- aminic — relating to or containing an amine
- amylic — relating to or derived from amyl
- ancile — a shield that was said to have fallen from heaven, on whose preservation the fortune of Rome was thought to depend
- andric — Ivo (ˈiːvɔ). 1892–1975, Serbian novelist; author of The Bridge on the Drina (1945): Nobel prize for literature 1961
- anemic — Pathology. suffering from anemia.
- anetic — soothing
- angico — the South American tree, Parapiptadenia rigida
- anglic — the English language in a simplified spelling devised by R. E. Zachrisson (1880–1937), a Swedish philologist, to make English easier to use as an auxiliary language. About 40 of the most frequent words are kept in their usual spellings; the rest of the vocabulary is spelled phonetically with letters of the traditional 26-letter alphabet.
- anicca — (in Theravada Buddhism) the belief that all things, including the self, are impermanent and constantly changing: the first of the three basic characteristics of existence
- anicut — a dam, found in streams in India, which serves to control the flow of an irrigation system
- anisic — relating to or resulting from anise
- anodic — pertaining to an anode or the phenomena in its vicinity.
- anomic — a state or condition of individuals or society characterized by a breakdown or absence of social norms and values, as in the case of uprooted people.
- anoxic — an abnormally low amount of oxygen in the body tissues; hypoxia.
- ansi c — (language, standard) (American National Standards Institute C) A revision of C, adding function prototypes, structure passing, structure assignment and standardised library functions. ANSI X3.159-1989.
- antica — pronaos.
- antick — antic
- antics — Antics are funny, silly, or unusual ways of behaving.
- anuric — having anuria
- aortic — the main trunk of the arterial system, conveying blood from the left ventricle of the heart to all of the body except the lungs.
- apical — of, at, or being the apex
- apices — apex
- apiece — If people have a particular number of things apiece, they have that number each.
- apneic — a temporary suspension of breathing, occurring in some newborns (infant apnea) and in some adults during sleep (sleep apnea)
- arabic — Arabic is a language that is spoken in the Middle East and in parts of North Africa.
- archi- — chief, first
- archie — Archibald Lee ("Archie") 1913–1998, U.S. boxer.
- archil — orchil
- arcing — Geometry. any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line.
- arcmin — 1⁄60 of a degree of an angle