8-letter words containing i, c, a
- antilock — designed to prevent skidding and improve control by sensing and compensating for overbraking
- antipyic — acting against or preventing suppuration
- antirock — opposed to rock music
- anuretic — relating to an inability to urinate
- aoristic — Grammar. pertaining to the aorist.
- apagogic — relating to apagoge
- apatetic — of or relating to coloration that disguises and protects an animal
- aphasiac — pertaining to or affected with aphasia.
- aphicide — any substance used to kill aphids
- apically — of, at, or forming the apex.
- apiculus — a small point or tip
- aplastic — relating to or characterized by aplasia
- apocopic — of or relating to apocope
- apocrine — denoting a type of glandular secretion in which part of the secreting cell is lost with the secretion, as in mammary glands
- apogamic — Of or relating to apogamy.
- aporetic — Tending to doubt.
- apositic — causing apositia
- apractic — a disorder of the nervous system, characterized by an inability to perform purposeful movements, but not accompanied by a loss of sensory function or paralysis.
- apricate — to sunbathe or bask in the sun
- apricity — (obsolete) The warmth of the Sun.
- apricots — Plural form of apricot.
- apurimac — a river in S Peru, rising in the Andes and flowing northwest into the Urubamba River. Length: about 885 km (550 miles)
- apyretic — without fever
- aquacise — A type of physical exercise practiced in water mostly vertically and without swimming, typically in a swimming pool in waist deep or deeper water.
- aquatics — sports or pastimes performed in or on the water
- aquiesce — Misspelling of acquiesce.
- arachnid — any terrestrial chelicerate arthropod of the class Arachnida, characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs. The group includes the spiders, scorpions, ticks, mites, and harvestmen
- arancini — (in Italian cookery) a dish consisting of balls of rice stuffed with a savoury filling, coated in breadcrumbs and fried
- arc sine — the angle, measured in radians, that has a sine equal to a given number. Symbol: sin −1. Abbreviation: arc sin, arcsin;
- arcadian — of or relating to Arcadia or its inhabitants, esp the idealized Arcadia of pastoral poetry
- arcading — An arrangement of arcades.
- arcanist — a person with secret knowledge of a manufacturing technique
- arcesius — a son of Zeus and Euryodia, father of Laertes, and grandfather of Odysseus.
- archaise — Standard spelling of from=non-Oxford.
- archaism — the adoption or imitation of something archaic, such as a word or an artistic or literary style
- archaist — something archaic, as a word or expression.
- archaize — to give an archaic appearance or character to, as by the use of archaisms
- archival — Archival means belonging or relating to archives.
- 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
- arciform — shaped like an arch
- arclight — A lamp that produces light by generating an electric arc across an enclosed gas.
- arctiids — Plural form of arctiid.
- argentic — of or containing silver in the divalent or trivalent state
- argerich — Martha. born 1941, Argentinian concert pianist
- armchair — An armchair is a big comfortable chair which has a support on each side for your arms.
- armonica — a glass harmonica, being a musical instrument of the 18th century consisting of a set of glass bowls of graduated pitches, played by rubbing the fingers over the moistened rims or by a keyboard mechanism
- armorica — an ancient name for Brittany