8-letter words containing e, c, r, i
- archived — Simple past tense and past participle of archive.
- archiver — One who, or that which, archives.
- archives — Usually, archives. documents or records relating to the activities, business dealings, etc., of a person, family, corporation, association, community, or nation.
- archwise — like an arch
- argentic — of or containing silver in the divalent or trivalent state
- argerich — Martha. born 1941, Argentinian concert pianist
- articled — In Britain, someone who is articled to a firm of lawyers or accountants is employed by the firm and is training to become qualified.
- articles — legal training
- artifice — Artifice is the clever use of tricks and devices.
- arvicole — a mouse or water vole that belongs to the genus Arvicola
- ascribed — Simple past tense and past participle of ascribe.
- ascribes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ascribe.
- aspermic — (of a male animal) Unable to produce sperm.
- aspheric — a lens that has a shape that is not completely round
- auricled — (botany) auriculate.
- auricles — Plural form of auricle.
- backfire — If a plan or project backfires, it has the opposite result to the one that was intended.
- bacteria — Bacteria are very small organisms. Some bacteria can cause disease.
- bacterin — a vaccine prepared from bacteria
- balearic — of or relating to the Balearic Islands
- barbicel — any of the minute hooks on the barbules of feathers that interlock with those of adjacent barbules
- beatrice — a feminine name: dim. Bea; var. Beatrix
- beccaria — Cesare Bonesana (ˈtʃɛzare bɔnɛˈzɑːna), Marchese de. 1738–94, Italian legal theorist and political economist; author of the influential treatise Crimes and Punishments (1764), which attacked corruption, torture, and capital punishment
- bedchair — an adjustable chair to support an invalid sitting up in bed
- berenice — a feminine name
- bernicia — a 6th- and 7th- century Anglian kingdom, merged with Deira to form the kingdom of Northumbria, in present-day NE England and SE Scotland.
- bernicle — barnacle goose: a N European goose that has a black-and-white head and body and grey wings
- besmirch — If you besmirch someone or their reputation, you say that they are a bad person or that they have done something wrong, usually when this is not true.
- bichrome — having two colours
- birdcage — A birdcage is a cage in which birds are kept.
- birkbeck — George. 1776–1841, British educationalist, who helped to establish vocational training for working men: founder and first president of the London Mechanics Institute (1824), which later became Birkbeck College
- bisector — a straight line or plane that bisects an angle
- bitbrace — brace (def 3).
- bitchery — spiteful talk
- boracite — a white mineral that forms salt deposits of magnesium borate and chloride in orthorhombic crystalline form. Formula: Mg3ClB7O13
- braciole — a flat piece of veal or beef rolled around a filling and baked in stock and wine.
- brattice — a partition of wood or treated cloth used to control ventilation in a mine
- breccial — of or relating to breccia
- brisance — the shattering effect or power of an explosion or explosive
- britches — breeches (sense 2)
- c-interp — An interpreter for a small subset of C, originally part of a communications package.
- c-refine — A preprocessor for C and languages with similar syntax by Lutz Prechelt <[email protected]>. C-Refine allows symbolic naming of code fragments so as to redistribute complexity and provide running commentary. Version 3.0 is available from comp.sources.reviewed archives. It is highly portable and has been ported to Unix, MS-DOS, Atari, Amiga.
- cabriole — a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
- cadherin — (protein) Any of a class of transmembrane proteins important in maintaining tissue structure.
- caesuric — caesural
- cagebird — A bird kept in a cage.
- cairenes — (sometimes lowercase) of or relating to Cairo, Egypt.
- calciner — a person or thing that calcines.
- calibers — Plural form of caliber.
- calibres — Plural form of calibre.