8-letter words containing c, u, e, i
- quickset — a plant or cutting, especially of hawthorn, set to grow, as in a hedge.
- quiesced — Simple past tense and past participle of quiesce.
- reducing — to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds.
- reinduce — to induce again
- reinduct — to install in an office, benefice, position, etc., especially with formal ceremonies: The committee inducted her as president.
- republic — a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them.
- reticule — a small purse or bag, originally of network but later of silk, rayon, etc.
- reuchlin — Johann [yoh-hahn] /ˈyoʊ hɑn/ (Show IPA), 1455–1522, German humanist scholar.
- ridicule — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
- rinceaux — an ornamental foliate or floral motif.
- runcible — Early system for mathematics on IBM 650. See also FORTRUNCIBLE, IT.
- ruthenic — containing ruthenium in a higher valence state than the corresponding ruthenious compound.
- saucisse — a small sausage
- scissure — a longitudinal cleft or opening.
- scituate — a town in E Massachusetts.
- sciurine — of or relating to the squirrels and allied rodents of the family Sciuridae.
- scurried — to go or move quickly or in haste.
- scurrier — a scout
- scurries — to go or move quickly or in haste.
- scurrile — scurrilous.
- scutiger — any species of the Scutigera genus which includes many types of centipede
- security — freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
- seducive — seductive
- seleucia — an ancient city in Iraq, on the Tigris River: capital of the Seleucid empire.
- seleucid — a member of a Macedonian dynasty, 312–64 b.c., that ruled an empire that included much of Asia Minor, Syria, Persia, Bactria, and Babylonia.
- semuncia — a bronze coin produced during the period of the Roman Republic, weighing half an ounce, and equivalent in value to a twenty-fourth of an as at the time
- sinecure — an office or position requiring little or no work, especially one yielding profitable returns.
- slice up — cut into thin pieces
- specious — apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments.
- spice up — make more exciting
- subchief — a chief below the main chief
- subniche — a subdivision of a niche
- suchlike — of any such kind; similar.
- suchwise — in such a way or manner
- suckiest — disagreeable; unpleasant.
- sufficed — to be enough or adequate, as for needs, purposes, etc.
- suffices — to be enough or adequate, as for needs, purposes, etc.
- suicided — the intentional taking of one's own life.
- suitcase — a usually rectangular piece of luggage especially for carrying clothes while traveling.
- suricate — a small, burrowing South African carnivore, Suricata suricatta, of a grayish color with dark bands across the back, related to the mongooses and having social behavior similar to that of prairie dogs.
- surplice — a loose-fitting, broad-sleeved white vestment, worn over the cassock by clergy and choristers.
- telluric — of or containing tellurium, especially in the hexavalent state.
- teucrian — of or relating to the ancient Trojans.
- teutonic — of or relating to the ancient Teutons.
- theurgic — a system of beneficent magic practiced by the Egyptian Platonists and others.
- tincture — Pharmacology. a solution of alcohol or of alcohol and water, containing animal, vegetable, or chemical drugs.
- toreutic — of or relating to toreutics or the objects produced by this technique.
- tubicole — an invertebrate animal that lives in a self-constructed tube
- tunicate — Zoology. any sessile marine chordate of the subphylum Tunicata (Urochordata), having a saclike body enclosed in a thick membrane or tunic and two openings or siphons for the ingress and egress of water.
- tunicked — wearing a tunic