5-letter words containing i, c
- chiru — a Tibetan antelope, Pantholops hodgsoni, having a dense woolly pinkish-brown fleece prized as the source of shahtoosh wool: now close to extinction due to illegal slaughter for its fleece
- chita — an industrial city in SE Russia, on the Trans-Siberian railway. Pop: 309 000 (2005 est)
- chits — pure consciousness.
- chive — a small Eurasian purple-flowered alliaceous plant, Allium schoenoprasum, whose long slender hollow leaves are used in cooking to flavour soups, stews, etc
- chivy — to harass or nag
- choil — An unsharpened section of a knife blade in front of the guard on the blade.
- choir — A choir is a group of people who sing together, for example in a church or school.
- choli — a short-sleeved bodice, as worn by Indian women
- chris — a male given name, form of Christopher.
- ciano — Galeazzo, full name Conte Galeazzo Ciano di Cortellazzo. 1903–44, Italian fascist politician; minister of foreign affairs (1936–43) and son-in-law of Mussolini, whose supporters shot him
- cider — Cider is a drink made from apples which in Britain usually contains alcohol. In the United States, cider does not usually contain alcohol, and if it does contain alcohol, it is usually called hard cider.
- cigar — Cigars are rolls of dried tobacco leaves which people smoke.
- cigfa — wife of Pryderi.
- ciggy — A ciggy is a cigarette.
- cilia — the eyelashes
- cilla — a sister of Priam who, with her infant son, was slain by Priam because it had been prophesied that a mother and child of the royal house would cause the destruction of Troy.
- cimex — any of the heteropterous insects of the genus Cimex, esp the bedbug
- cimon — died 449 bc, Athenian military and naval commander: defeated the Persians at Eurymedon (?466)
- cinch — If you say that something is a cinch, you mean that you think it is very easy to do.
- cinct — encircled
- cindy — a female given name, form of Cynthia.
- cine- — indicating motion picture or cinema
- cinna — Lucius Cornelius (ˈluːsɪəs kɔːˈniːlɪəs). died 84 bc, Roman patrician; an opponent of Sulla
- cions — scion (def 2).
- cip-l — CIP Language
- cippi — (in classical architecture) a stele.
- cipro — a synthetic antibiotic, C17H18FN3O3·HCl·H2O, used in treating urinary tract infections, lung infections, etc.
- circa — Circa is used in front of a particular year to say that this is the approximate date when something happened or was made.
- circe — an enchantress who detained Odysseus on her island and turned his men into swine
- circs — circumstances
- cirio — boojum tree.
- cirri — cirrus (sense 1)
- cisco — any of various whitefish, esp Coregonus artedi, of cold deep lakes of North America
- cissy — sissy
- cists — Plural form of cist.
- cital — a court summons
- cited — to quote (a passage, book, author, etc.), especially as an authority: He cited the Constitution in his defense.
- citer — to quote (a passage, book, author, etc.), especially as an authority: He cited the Constitution in his defense.
- cites — Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species
- citie — Archaic spelling of city.
- citta — the intellect or cognitive facility.
- civet — any catlike viverrine mammal of the genus Viverra and related genera, of Africa and S Asia, typically having blotched or spotted fur and secreting a powerfully smelling fluid from anal glands
- civic — You use civic to describe people or things that have an official status in a town or city.
- civil — You use civil to describe events that happen within a country and that involve the different groups of people in it.
- civvy — a civilian
- claim — If you say that someone claims that something is true, you mean they say that it is true but you are not sure whether or not they are telling the truth.
- clair — René (rəne), real name René Chomette. 1898–1981, French film director; noted for his comedies including An Italian Straw Hat (1928) and pioneering sound films such as Sous les toits de Paris (1930); later films include Les Belles de nuit (1952)
- clavi — Psychiatry. an intense headache in which the pain is likened to one that would be produced by a sharp object driven into the skull.
- clicc — (language) A Common Lisp to C compiler by Heinz Knutzen <[email protected]>, Ulrich Hoffman <[email protected]> and Wolfgang Goerigk <[email protected]>. CLiCC is meant to be used as a supplement to existing CLISP systems for generating portable applications. Target C code must be linked with the CLiCC run-time library to produce an executable. Version 0.6.2 conforms to a subset of Common Lisp and CLOS called CL_0 or CommonLisp_0 and based on CLtL1. It runs with Lucid Lisp, AKCL or CLISP. Work on CLtL2 and ANSI-CL conformance is in progress.
- click — If something clicks or if you click it, it makes a short, sharp sound.