7-letter words containing c, s, i
- stickle — to argue or haggle insistently, especially on trivial matters.
- stickum — any adhesive substance.
- stickup — a holdup; robbery.
- stoical — impassive; characterized by a calm, austere fortitude befitting the Stoics: a stoical sufferer.
- stricks — a group of any of the major bast fibers, as flax or jute, prepared for conversion into sliver form.
- strobic — spinning or appearing to spin
- styptic — serving to contract organic tissue; astringent; binding.
- subacid — slightly or moderately acid or sour: a subacid fruit.
- suberic — of or relating to cork.
- succise — ending abruptly, as if cut off
- succubi — a demon in female form, said to have sexual intercourse with men in their sleep. Compare incubus (def 1).
- suck in — to draw into the mouth by producing a partial vacuum by action of the lips and tongue: to suck lemonade through a straw.
- sucking — not weaned.
- sucrier — a small container for sugar used at the table; a sugar bowl
- suction — the act, process, or condition of sucking.
- sudanic — (especially in former systems of classification) of or relating to a residual category of African languages including most of the non-Bantu and non-Hamitic languages of northern and central Africa: most now reclassified as part of the Niger-Congo subfamily.
- suffice — to be enough or adequate, as for needs, purposes, etc.
- suicide — the intentional taking of one's own life.
- sunsick — suffering from mild heat exhaustion.
- switchy — moving as a switch
- sybotic — of a swineherd
- sycosis — an inflammatory disease of the hair follicles, characterized by a pustular eruption.
- sylphic — a slender, graceful woman or girl.
- syncing — synchronization: The picture and the soundtrack were out of sync.
- synodic — Astronomy. pertaining to a conjunction, or to two successive conjunctions of the same bodies.
- tachism — action painting (def 1).
- tacitus — Publius Cornelius [puhb-lee-uh s] /ˈpʌb li əs/ (Show IPA), a.d. c55–c120, Roman historian.
- tackies — a sneaker.
- tactics — tactics (def 1).
- tamasic — See under guna.
- tickets — a slip, usually of paper or cardboard, serving as evidence that the holder has paid a fare or admission or is entitled to some service, right, or the like: a railroad ticket; a theater ticket.
- triceps — a muscle having three heads or points of origin, especially the muscle on the back of the arm, the action of which straightens the elbow.
- tricksy — Also, tricksome. given to tricks; mischievous; playful; prankish.
- trisect — to divide into three parts, especially into three equal parts.
- tropics — The tropics are the parts of the world that lie between two lines of latitude, the tropic of Cancer, 23½° north of the equator, and the tropic of Capricorn, 23½° south of the equator.
- tychism — the theory that chance is an objective reality at work in the universe, esp in evolutionary adaptations
- tycosis — the withdrawal of investment funds from companies because of suspicion about waste and mismanagement
- uisnech — the father of Naoise.
- uncinus — a small hooked structure, such as any of the hooked chaetae of certain polychaete worms
- unslick — not slick
- unstick — to free, as one thing stuck to another.
- uricase — an enzyme found in organisms from bacteria to mammals but absent in humans
- vacuist — a person who believes in the existence of vacuums between molecules and atoms of matter or between bodies of the universe
- varices — plural of varix.
- vesical — of or relating to a vesica or bladder, especially the urinary bladder.
- vesicle — a small sac or cyst.
- vesico- — bladder
- vicious — addicted to or characterized by vice; grossly immoral; depraved; profligate: a vicious life.
- vickers — Jon, born 1926, Canadian operatic tenor.
- viscera — Viscera are the large organs inside the body, such as the heart, liver, and stomach.