8-letter words containing c, s, t, o
- factious — given to faction; dissentious: A factious group was trying to undermine the government.
- factoids — Plural form of factoid.
- fatstock — livestock that has been fattened for market.
- fetlocks — Plural form of fetlock.
- fictions — Plural form of fiction.
- fictious — (obsolete) Fictitious.
- forecast — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- fractons — Plural form of fracton.
- fructose — Chemistry, Pharmacology. a yellowish to white, crystalline, water-soluble, levorotatory ketose sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , sweeter than sucrose, occurring in invert sugar, honey, and a great many fruits: used in foodstuffs and in medicine chiefly in solution as an intravenous nutrient.
- functors — Plural form of functor.
- futtocks — Plural form of futtock.
- gnostics — Plural form of gnostic.
- gunstock — the stock or support in which the barrel of a shoulder weapon is fixed.
- historic — well-known or important in history: a historic building; historic occasions.
- holistic — incorporating the concept of holism, or the idea that the whole is more than merely the sum of its parts, in theory or practice: holistic psychology.
- holocost — Misspelling of holocaust.
- hootches — a thatched hut of southeast Asia.
- hotcakes — Plural form of hotcake.
- housecat — a domesticated cat kept as a pet.
- hypocist — a type of juice derived from the fruit of a plant which grows from the Cistus shrub
- hystoric — Nonstandard spelling of historic.
- iceboats — Plural form of iceboat.
- icestone — a rare crystalline mineral also known as cryolite
- ignostic — One who holds to ignosticism.
- in stock — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
- iotacism — the conversion of other vowel sounds, especially in Modern Greek, into (ē), the sound of iota.
- iscariot — the surname of Judas, the betrayer of Jesus. Mark 3:19; 14:10, 11.
- isostacy — Geology. the equilibrium of the earth's crust, a condition in which the forces tending to elevate balance those tending to depress.
- isotachs — Plural form of isotach.
- isotimic — (of a line or surface in space) having an equal value of some quantity at a given time.
- isotonic — Also, isosmotic. Physical Chemistry. noting or pertaining to solutions characterized by equal osmotic pressure. Compare hypertonic (def 2), hypotonic (def 2).
- isotopic — any of two or more forms of a chemical element, having the same number of protons in the nucleus, or the same atomic number, but having different numbers of neutrons in the nucleus, or different atomic weights. There are 275 isotopes of the 81 stable elements, in addition to over 800 radioactive isotopes, and every element has known isotopic forms. Isotopes of a single element possess almost identical properties.
- isotypic — of or relating to an isotype.
- jackpots — Plural form of jackpot.
- jocosity — the state or quality of being jocose.
- joystick — Informal. the control stick of an airplane, tank, or other vehicle.
- lacteous — milky; of the color of milk.
- lactones — Plural form of lactone.
- lections — Plural form of lection.
- linocuts — Plural form of linocut.
- linstock — a staff with one end forked to hold a match, formerly used in firing cannon.
- listproc — A mailing list processor owned and developed by BITNET which runs under Unix. See also Listserv, Majordomo.
- lobstick — lopstick.
- localist — a word, phrase, pronunciation, or manner of speaking that is peculiar to one locality.
- locators — Plural form of locator.
- lockfast — (Scottish) Fastened or secured with a lock.
- locknuts — Plural form of locknut.
- lockouts — Plural form of lockout.
- lockstep — a way of marching in very close file, in which the leg of each person moves with and closely behind the corresponding leg of the person ahead.
- locustal — of or relating to locusts