8-letter words containing i, c, e, s
- carioles — Plural form of cariole.
- carlisle — a city in NW England, administrative centre of Cumbria: railway and industrial centre. Pop: 71 773 (2001)
- carriers — Plural form of carrier.
- cashiers — Plural form of cashier.
- casimere — cassimere
- cassiope — (sometimes initial capital letter) any evergreen shrub belonging to the genus Cassiope, of the heath family, having nodding white or pinkish solitary flowers and scalelike or needlelike leaves.
- cassirer — Ernst (ɛrnst). 1874–1945, German neo-Kantian philosopher. The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms (1923–29) analyses the symbols that underlie all manifestations, including myths and language, of human culture
- casteism — the belief in, and adherence to, the caste system
- castries — the capital and chief port of St Lucia. Pop: 14 000 (2005 est)
- cathexis — concentration of psychic energy on a single goal
- catslide — (in early American architecture) a steep roof ending close to the ground, as on a saltbox.
- cattiest — catlike; feline.
- causerie — an informal talk or conversational piece of writing
- cavefish — any of various small freshwater cyprinodont fishes of the genera Amblyopsis, Chologaster, etc, living in subterranean and other waters in S North America
- cavities — Plural form of cavity.
- cedillas — Plural form of cedilla.
- ceilidhs — Plural form of ceilidh.
- ceilings — Plural form of ceiling.
- cellfish — using a mobile phone in a way that disregards the wishes of other people
- cellists — Plural form of cellist.
- celloist — (rare) synonym of cellist.
- centesis — the surgical puncturing of a part of the body with a hollow needle in order to extract fluid
- centimes — Plural form of centime.
- centimos — Plural form of centimo.
- centoist — a person who composes centos
- centries — Plural form of centry.
- centrism — (especially in continental Europe) a member of a political party of the Center; moderate.
- centrist — Centrist policies and parties are moderate rather than extreme.
- ceramics — the art and techniques of producing articles of clay, porcelain, etc
- ceramist — a person who works in ceramics; ceramic artist
- cerritos — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 51,000
- cervices — cervix
- cesarian — Also called Cesarean section, C-section. an operation by which a fetus is taken from the uterus by cutting through the walls of the abdomen and uterus.
- cessavit — (UK, legal, obsolete) A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.
- cessions — Plural form of cession.
- cesspipe — a waste pipe, especially one discharging from a cesspool.
- cesspits — Plural form of cesspit.
- chabasie — Dated form of chabazite.
- chalices — Plural form of chalice.
- chappies — Plural form of chappie.
- chariest — Superlative form of chary.
- charlies — a word used in communications to represent the letter C.
- chasible — Alternative form of chasuble.
- chastise — If you chastise someone, you speak to them angrily or punish them for something wrong that they have done.
- chastize — Alternative form of chastise.
- cheapish — costing very little; relatively low in price; inexpensive: a cheap dress.
- cheerios — Plural form of cheerio.
- cheesier — Comparative form of cheesy.
- cheesily — in a cheesy manner
- cheesing — the curd of milk separated from the whey and prepared in many ways as a food.