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9-letter words containing c, i

  • acception — (obsolete) acceptation; the received meaning.
  • acceptive — ready or willing to accept
  • accessing — the ability, right, or permission to approach, enter, speak with, or use; admittance: They have access to the files.
  • accession — Accession is the act of taking up a position as the ruler of a country.
  • accessive — Misspelling of excessive.
  • accidence — inflectional morphology; the part of grammar concerned with changes in the form of words by internal modification or by affixation, for the expression of tense, person, case, number, etc
  • accidents — Plural form of accident.
  • accipiter — any hawk of the genus Accipiter, typically having short rounded wings and a long tail
  • acclaimed — publicly acknowledged as excellent
  • acclaimer — One who acclaims.
  • acclimate — When you acclimate or are acclimated to a new situation, place, or climate, you become used to it.
  • acclivity — an upward slope, esp of the ground
  • acclivous — Sloping upward; rising like a hillside.
  • according — in proportion; in relation
  • accordion — An accordion is a musical instrument in the shape of a fairly large box which you hold in your hands. You play the accordion by pressing keys or buttons on either side while moving the two sides together and apart. Accordions are used especially to play traditional popular music.
  • accosting — Present participle of accost.
  • accredits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accredit.
  • accreting — Present participle of accrete.
  • accretion — An accretion is an addition to something, usually one that has been added over a period of time.
  • accretive — an increase by natural growth or by gradual external addition; growth in size or extent.
  • accroides — an alcohol-soluble resin, obtained from Australian trees, used in paper manufacturing and as a component of varnishes
  • accurized — to improve the accuracy of (a firearm).
  • ace point — the first point in backgammon.
  • acephalic — having no head or one that is reduced and indistinct
  • acetamide — a white or colourless soluble deliquescent crystalline compound, used in the manufacture of organic chemicals. Formula: CH3CONH2
  • acetified — Simple past tense and past participle of acetify.
  • acetifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of acetify.
  • acetylide — any of a class of carbides in which the carbon is present as a diatomic divalent ion (C22–). They are formally derivatives of acetylene
  • achalasia — failure of the cardiac sphincter of the oesophagus to relax, resulting in difficulty in swallowing
  • acheilary — having no labellum or lip, or one that is undeveloped, as in the flower of certain orchids.
  • acheulian — (in Europe) the period in the Lower Palaeolithic following the Abbevillian, represented by the use of soft hammerstones in hand axe production made of chipped stone, bone, antler, or wood. The Acheulian dates from the Riss glaciation
  • achievers — to bring to a successful end; carry through; accomplish: The police crackdown on speeders achieved its purpose.
  • achieving — to bring to a successful end; carry through; accomplish: The police crackdown on speeders achieved its purpose.
  • achillean — the greatest Greek warrior in the Trojan War and hero of Homer's Iliad. He killed Hector and was killed when Paris wounded him in the heel, his one vulnerable spot, with an arrow.
  • achimenes — any plant of the tropical S American tuberous-rooted perennial genus Achimenes, with showy red, blue, or white tubular flowers, some of which are grown as greenhouse plants: family Gesneriaceae
  • acholuria — the absence of bile pigments in the urine.
  • aciculate — having aciculae
  • acid cell — Electricity. a cell using an acid electrolyte.
  • acid drop — a boiled sweet with a sharp taste
  • acid dust — air-polluting particles of dust, usually wind-borne, having high concentrations of acid.
  • acid jazz — a type of music, popular in the 1980s and 1990s, that combines jazz with genres such as funk, hip-hop, and electronic dance music
  • acid rain — Acid rain is rain polluted by acid that has been released into the atmosphere from factories and other industrial processes. Acid rain is harmful to the environment.
  • acid rock — a type of rock music characterized by electronically amplified bizarre instrumental effects
  • acid salt — a salt formed by partial replacement of the acidic hydrogen atoms of the parent acid
  • acid soil — a soil that gives a pH reaction of below about 6, found esp in cool moist areas where soluble bases are leached away
  • acid test — The acid test of something is an important aspect or result that it might have, which allows you to decide whether it is true or successful.
  • acid trip — a psychedelic experience induced by ingesting the hallucinogen LSD.
  • acid-fast — (of bacteria and tissues) resistant to decolorization by mineral acids after staining
  • acid-head — a person who habitually takes the drug LSD.
  • acidaemia — (medicine) a medical condition marked by an abnormally high concentration of hydrogen ions in a person's blood.
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