9-letter words containing c, s, i
- actionist — a person who is bent on (spoken) action
- activates — to make active; cause to function or act.
- activists — Plural form of activist.
- actualise — to make actual or real; turn into action or fact.
- actualism — the doctrine that all reality is animate or in motion.
- actualist — a person who deals in hard facts; a realist
- actuaries — Plural form of actuary.
- acuminous — keen insight; shrewdness: remarkable acumen in business matters.
- acupoints — Plural form of acupoint.
- aeschines — ?389–?314 bc, Athenian orator; the main political opponent of Demosthenes
- aesthetic — Aesthetic is used to talk about beauty or art, and people's appreciation of beautiful things.
- affiances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of affiance.
- agelastic — never laughing; mirthless
- agnostics — Plural form of agnostic.
- agonistic — striving for effect; strained
- ahistoric — not related to or concerned with documented history
- air corps — (before July 26, 1947) a branch of the U.S. Army concerned with military aviation.
- air crash — a crash involving one or more aircraft
- air scoop — a device fitted to the surface of an aircraft to provide air pressure or ventilation from the airflow
- air scout — a scout belonging to a scout troop that specializes in flying, gliding, etc
- air space — a space occupied by air.
- air stack — stack (def 13).
- airbricks — Plural form of airbrick.
- aircrafts — (nonstandard) Plural form of aircraft.
- airscrews — Plural form of airscrew.
- airy disc — the bright central part of the diffraction pattern of light from a point source that is diffracted by a circular aperture.
- akathisic — Relating to, or exhibiting, akathisia.
- albricias — an expression of joy
- albucasis — Abu al-Qāsim
- alchemies — a form of chemistry and speculative philosophy practiced in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and concerned principally with discovering methods for transmuting baser metals into gold and with finding a universal solvent and an elixir of life.
- alchemise — to change by or as by alchemy; transmute: to alchemize lead into gold.
- alchemist — An alchemist was a scientist in the Middle Ages who tried to discover how to change ordinary metals into gold.
- alchymist — Alternative spelling of alchemist.
- alcimedes — the mother of Jason.
- algeciras — a port and resort in SW Spain, on the Strait of Gibraltar: scene of a conference of the Great Powers in 1906. Pop: 108 779 (2003 est)
- algicides — Plural form of algicide.
- alliances — Plural form of alliance.
- allspices — Plural form of allspice.
- ambrosiac — Having the qualities of ambrosia; delicious.
- ameristic — not divided into parts; having no meristem.
- amoristic — relating to, or characteristic of, romantic love
- amplicons — Plural form of amplicon.
- amsinckia — a genus of flowering herb found in Europe and the Americas
- anacharis — a genus of water plant native to North America and commonly used in aquariums
- anaclisis — the choice of an object of libidinal attachment on the basis of a resemblance to early childhood protective and parental figures.
- anacostia — a section of the District of Columbia, in the SE part.
- anacrusis — one or more unstressed syllables at the beginning of a line of verse
- analgesic — An analgesic drug reduces the effect of pain.
- analytics — the part of logic having to do with analyzing
- anapestic — a foot of three syllables, two short followed by one long in quantitative meter, and two unstressed followed by one stressed in accentual meter, as in for the nonce.