8-letter words containing i, c, e, s
- forinsec — foreign
- fornices — any of various arched or vaulted structures, as an arching fibrous formation in the brain.
- frickles — Plural form of frickle.
- fuchsine — A dye (rosaniline hydrochloride or similar) usually a deep red or magenta colour.
- fuchsite — a bright green variety of muscovite having chromium in place of some of the aluminum.
- gaiseric — Genseric.
- gelastic — Pertaining to laughter, used in laughing, or to be the subject of laughter.
- generics — Plural form of generic.
- genetics — Biology. the science of heredity, dealing with resemblances and differences of related organisms resulting from the interaction of their genes and the environment.
- genomics — the study of genomes.
- genseric — a.d. c390–477, king of the Vandals, conqueror in northern Africa and Italy.
- geodesic — Also, geodesical. pertaining to the geometry of curved surfaces, in which geodesic lines take the place of the straight lines of plane geometry.
- georgics — Plural form of georgic.
- geschrei — a yell; shout.
- get sick — fall ill, become unwell
- glaciers — an extended mass of ice formed from snow falling and accumulating over the years and moving very slowly, either descending from high mountains, as in valley glaciers, or moving outward from centers of accumulation, as in continental glaciers.
- glitches — A sudden, usually temporary malfunction or irregularity of equipment.
- glucides — any of various organic compounds that consist of or contain a carbohydrate.
- gneissic — a metamorphic rock, generally made up of bands that differ in color and composition, some bands being rich in feldspar and quartz, others rich in hornblende or mica.
- graecism — the spirit of Greek thought, art, etc.
- grimaces — Make a grimace.
- grinches — Plural form of grinch.
- guesclin — Bertrand du ?1320–80, French commander during the Hundred Years' War
- hedonics — the branch of psychology that deals with pleasurable and unpleasurable states of consciousness.
- helicase — any of the enzymes that use the energy derived from the hydrolysis of nucleoside triphosphates to unwind the double-stranded helical structure of nucleic acids: RNA and DNA helicases.
- helicons — Plural form of helicon.
- hemisect — to cut into two equal parts; to bisect, especially along a medial longitudinal plane.
- hepatics — Plural form of hepatic.
- heretics — Plural form of heretic.
- hicksite — a member of the liberal body of Quakers in the U.S., who asserted the sufficiency of the Inner Light in religious life.
- homesick — sad or depressed from a longing for home or family while away from them for a long time.
- hoochies — a thatched hut of southeast Asia.
- hospices — Plural form of hospice.
- huisache — a tropical and subtropical New World shrub, Acacia farnesiana, of the legume family, having clusters of fragrant, deep-yellow flower heads.
- hyoscine — scopolamine.
- hysteric — Usually, hysterics. a fit of uncontrollable laughter or weeping; hysteria.
- ice ages — (often initial capital letters) the glacial epoch, especially the Pleistocene Epoch.
- ice fish — any percoid fish of the family Chaenichthyidae, of Antarctic seas, having a semitransparent scaleless body
- ice show — entertainment in which a company of ice skaters exhibit their skills to musical accompaniment.
- icebergs — Plural form of iceberg.
- iceboats — Plural form of iceboat.
- iceboxes — Plural form of icebox.
- icefalls — Plural form of icefall.
- icehouse — a building for storing ice.
- icepacks — Plural form of icepack.
- icescape — a landscape covered with ice or with snow and ice: the limitless icescapes of Antarctica.
- icestone — a rare crystalline mineral also known as cryolite
- icewines — Plural form of icewine.
- ichnites — Plural form of ichnite.
- ickiness — repulsive or distasteful.