8-letter words containing e, r, c, t, i
- cernauti — a city in SW Ukraine, on the Prut River: formerly in Romania.
- cerritos — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 51,000
- certeine — Archaic spelling of certain.
- chapiter — the capital of a column
- chariest — Superlative form of chary.
- chattier — Comparative form of chatty.
- chestier — Comparative form of chesty.
- chlorite — any of a group of green soft secondary minerals consisting of the hydrated silicates of aluminium, iron, and magnesium in monoclinic crystalline form: common in metamorphic rocks
- chretien — (Joseph Jacques) Jean. born 1934, Canadian Liberal politician; prime minister of Canada (1993–2003)
- christen — When a baby is christened, he or she is given a name during the Christian ceremony of baptism. Compare baptize.
- christer — a Christian, esp. one actively engaged in proselytizing or evangelizing
- christie — Dame Agatha (Mary Clarissa). 1890–1976, British author of detective stories, many featuring Hercule Poirot, and several plays, including The Mousetrap (1952)
- chromite — a brownish-black mineral consisting of a ferrous chromic oxide in cubic crystalline form, occurring principally in basic igneous rocks: the only commercial source of chromium and its compounds. Formula: FeCr2O4
- cincture — something that encircles or surrounds, esp a belt, girdle, or border
- circlets — Plural form of circlet.
- circulet — Obsolete form of circlet.
- cisterna — a sac or partially closed space containing body fluid, esp lymph or cerebrospinal fluid
- cisterns — Plural form of cistern.
- citrange — a hybrid orange
- citrated — treated with a citrate
- citrates — Plural form of citrate.
- citreous — of a greenish-yellow colour; citron
- citrines — Plural form of citrine.
- citruses — Plural form of citrus.
- citterns — Plural form of cittern.
- clarinet — A clarinet is a musical instrument of the woodwind family in the shape of a pipe. You play the clarinet by blowing into it and covering and uncovering the holes with your fingers.
- cloister — A cloister is a covered area round a square in a monastery or a cathedral.
- clothier — a person who makes, sells, or deals in clothes or cloth
- codirect — to direct jointly
- coeditor — a person who cooperates or collaborates as editor with another.
- coistrel — a knave
- concerti — a composition for one or more principal instruments, with orchestral accompaniment, now usually in symphonic form.
- contrite — If you are contrite, you are very sorry because you have done something wrong.
- contrive — If you contrive an event or situation, you succeed in making it happen, often by tricking someone.
- corniest — pertaining to or affected with corns of the feet.
- cortices — Anatomy, Zoology. the outer region of an organ or structure, as the outer portion of the kidney. the cerebral cortex.
- costlier — costing much; expensive; high in price: a costly emerald bracelet; costly medical care.
- coteries — Plural form of coterie.
- cottiers — Plural form of cottier.
- countrie — Obsolete spelling of country.
- courtier — Courtiers were noblemen and women who spent a lot of time at the court of a king or queen.
- cowriter — a writer who works in collaboration with another writer
- craftier — Comparative form of crafty.
- craniate — having a skull or cranium
- craziest — mentally deranged; demented; insane.
- creatify — To edit, rewrite, and/or revise standard text using creative writing tools and techniques.
- creatine — an important metabolite involved in many biochemical reactions and present in many types of living cells
- creating — to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
- creation — In many religions, creation is the making of the universe, Earth, and creatures by God.
- creative — A creative person has the ability to invent and develop original ideas, especially in the arts.