6-letter words containing i, c, s
- nicest — pleasing; agreeable; delightful: a nice visit.
- niches — Plural form of niche.
- nicias — died 413 b.c, Athenian statesman and general.
- nieces — a daughter of a person's brother or sister.
- noctis — (in prescriptions) of the night.
- oecist — a person who colonizes, particularly in Ancient Greece
- optics — the eye.
- orchis — any orchid.
- orcish — (fantasy) Of or relating to orcs (monstrous humanoid creatures).
- oscine — of, belonging to, or pertaining to the suborder Oscines, of the order Passeriformes, comprising the songbirds that have highly developed vocal organs.
- osmics — the science dealing with the sense of smell.
- ovisac — a sac or capsule containing an ovum or ova.
- panisc — a faun; an attendant of Pan
- pascin — Jules [zhyl] /ʒül/ (Show IPA), (Julius Pincas) 1885–1930, French painter, born in Bulgaria.
- pc-ism — /P-C-izm/ A piece of code or coding technique that takes advantage of the unprotected single-tasking environment in IBM PCs and the like, e.g. by busy-waiting on a hardware register, direct diddling of screen memory or using hard timing loops. Compare ill-behaved, vaxism, Unixism.
- pclips — Parallel CLIPS - U Lowell. Concurrent independent CLIPS expert systems. They use 'rassert' (remote assert) to enter facts into each other's database. "PCLIPS: A Distributed Expert System Environment", R. Miller, CLIPS Users Group Conf, Aug 1990. E-mail: <[email protected]>(?).
- phasic — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- phocis — an ancient district in central Greece, N of the Gulf of Corinth: site of Delphic oracle.
- physic — a medicine that purges; cathartic; laxative.
- pieces — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
- pincus — Gregory Goodwin. 1903–67, US physiologist, whose work on steroid hormones led to the development of the first contraceptive pill
- pisces — zodiac sign: Fishes
- pisci- — fish
- precis — a concise summary.
- psocid — any of numerous minute winged insects of the family Psocidae (order Psocoptera), including most of the common barklice, having mouth parts adapted for chewing and feeding on fungi, lichens, algae, decaying plant material, etc., and occurring on the bark of trees and the leaves of plants.
- psoric — a cure for psora
- qbasic — (language) Quick basic. A version of BASIC from Microsoft, later known as MS-BASIC.
- quicks — Plural form of quick.
- rachis — Botany. the axis of an inflorescence when somewhat elongated, as in a raceme. (in a pinnately compound leaf or frond) the prolongation of the petiole along which the leaflets are disposed. any of various axial structures.
- racism — a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human racial groups determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to dominate others or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.
- racist — a person who believes in racism, the doctrine that one's own racial group is superior or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.
- rbasic — Database language for Revelation, by Cosmos, Inc. Combines features of BASIC, Pascal and Fortran.
- relics — a surviving memorial of something past.
- repics — the scoring of 30 points in the declaration of hands before one's opponent scores a point.
- riches — having wealth or great possessions; abundantly supplied with resources, means, or funds; wealthy: a rich man; a rich nation.
- rictus — the gape of the mouth of a bird.
- riscix — (operating system) /risk-icks/ (Or "RISC iX") BSD-based Unix developed by Acorn Computers Ltd. (Cambridge, UK) to run on 32-bit ARM RISC processors. RISCiX was launched circa 1989 for three production machines - the R140, R260, the discless R225; and other prototypes.
- riscpc — (computer) The final addition to Acorn's Archimedes family of personal computers, released in April 1994. The RiscPC allowed a second processor, e.g. an Intel 486 or a second ARM, to share the bus, memory and peripherals with the main processor. It also had full 24-bit colour graphics support. The Risc PC 600 (the first to be launched) had the new ARM600 processor and RISC OS 3.5. The RiscPC 700 had an ARM710 processor and RISC OS 3.6, and the SA had the StrongARM processor and RISC OS 3.7. RiscPCs are among the most energy efficient home computers.
- roscid — dewy
- rustic — of, relating to, or living in the country, as distinguished from towns or cities; rural.
- saitic — a native or citizen of Saïs.
- sancai — a colourful glaze in Chinese pottery
- scalia — Antonin [an-tuh-nin] /ˈæn tə nɪn/ (Show IPA), born 1936, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court since 1986.
- scampi — a large shrimp or prawn.
- scenic — of or relating to natural scenery.
- schick — Béla [bey-luh;; Hungarian bey-lo] /ˈbeɪ lə;; Hungarian ˈbeɪ lɒ/ (Show IPA), 1877–1967, U.S. pediatrician, born in Hungary.
- schiff — Sir Andras (ˈɑndrəs). born 1953, Hungarian concert pianist; became British citizen in 2001; knighted (2014) for services to music
- schipa — Tito [tee-taw] /ˈti tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1965, Italian operatic tenor.
- schism — division or disunion, especially into mutually opposed parties.
- schist — any of a class of crystalline metamorphic rocks whose constituent mineral grains have a more or less parallel or foliated arrangement.