8-letter words containing i, c, t, y
- nugacity — triviality; insignificance.
- nycturia — a condition in which one often wakes up during the night to urinate.
- oil city — a city in NW Pennsylvania, on the Allegheny River.
- onychite — a type of marble stone
- optimacy — Government by the nobility.
- oxytocia — rapid childbirth.
- oxytocic — of or causing the stimulation of the involuntary muscle of the uterus.
- oxytocin — Biochemistry. a polypeptide hormone, produced by the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland, that stimulates contraction of the smooth muscle of the uterus.
- oxytonic — (of a word) having the stress or acute accent on the last syllable
- patchily — characterized by or made up of patches.
- phyletic — of, relating to, or based on the evolutionary history of a group of organisms; phylogenetic.
- phytonic — of or relating to a phyton
- pitchily — in a pitchy manner
- psychist — a person who believes in psychic phenomena
- pudicity — modesty; chastity
- pycnotic — relating to a theory which holds that matter formation occurred as a result of ether condensation
- pythonic — prophetic; oracular.
- rapacity — given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
- retiracy — retirement
- rhythmic — cadenced; rhythmical.
- rusticly — in a rustic manner
- sacristy — an apartment in or a building connected with a church or a religious house, in which the sacred vessels, vestments, etc., are kept.
- sagacity — acuteness of mental discernment and soundness of judgment.
- salacity — lustful or lecherous.
- sanctify — to make holy; set apart as sacred; consecrate.
- sanctity — holiness, saintliness, or godliness.
- scantily — scant in amount, quantity, etc.; barely sufficient.
- scantity — the quality of being scant or scarce
- scarcity — insufficiency or shortness of supply; dearth.
- scolytid — any of various dark-coloured cylinder-shaped beetles, including the bark and ambrosia beetles
- scrutiny — a searching examination or investigation; minute inquiry.
- scythian — pertaining to Scythia, its people, or their language.
- scything — an agricultural implement consisting of a long, curving blade fastened at an angle to a handle, for cutting grass, grain, etc., by hand.
- security — freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
- solicity — a request
- staticky — containing or producing static electricity.
- stick by — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- stickily — in a sticky manner
- stickley — Gustav [guhs-tahv,, goo s-tahf] /ˈgʌs tɑv,, ˈgʊs tɑf/ (Show IPA), 1858–1942, U.S. furniture designer, architect, and leader of the Arts and Craft Movement in America.
- strictly — in a strict manner; rigorously; stringently: strictly enforced.
- sub-city — a large or important town.
- sun city — city in SC Arizona: pop. 38,000
- sylvatic — sylvan.
- synaptic — Also called syndesis. Cell Biology. the pairing of homologous chromosomes, one from each parent, during early meiosis.
- syncytia — a multinucleate mass of cytoplasm that is not separated into cells.
- syndetic — serving to unite or connect; connective; copulative.
- synectic — the study of creative processes, especially as applied to the solution of problems by a group of diverse individuals.
- synoptic — pertaining to or constituting a synopsis; affording or taking a general view of the principal parts of a subject.
- syntonic — Electricity. adjusted to oscillations of the same or a particular frequency.
- systemic — of or relating to a system.