8-letter words containing i, n, a, c
- gangetic — a river flowing SE from the Himalayas in N India into the Bay of Bengal: sacred to Hindus. 1550 miles (2495 km) long.
- garcinia — Mangosteen (of the genus Garcinia).
- germanic — of or relating to the Teutons or their languages.
- gigantic — very large; huge: a gigantic statue.
- gioconda — Mona Lisa.
- glancing — striking obliquely and bouncing off at an angle: a glancing blow.
- gnomical — Gnomic.
- granicus — a river in NW Turkey, flowing N to the Sea of Marmara: battle 334 b.c. 45 miles (70 km) long.
- granitic — a coarse-grained igneous rock composed chiefly of orthoclase and albite feldspars and of quartz, usually with lesser amounts of one or more other minerals, as mica, hornblende, or augite.
- guernica — Basque town in northern Spain: bombed and destroyed in 1937 by German planes helping the insurgents in the Spanish Civil War.
- guidance — the act or function of guiding; leadership; direction.
- gymnical — Alternative form of gymnic.
- gynoecia — Plural form of gynoecium.
- hacienda — a large landed estate, especially one used for farming or ranching.
- hackling — Present participle of hackle.
- hadronic — (physics) of, related to, or composed of hadrons.
- handicap — a race or other contest in which certain disadvantages or advantages of weight, distance, time, etc., are placed upon competitors to equalize their chances of winning.
- handpick — to pick by hand.
- haptenic — (immunology) Of or pertaining to a hapten.
- harmonic — pertaining to harmony, as distinguished from melody and rhythm.
- hatching — a shading line in drawing or engraving.
- hawfinch — a European grosbeak, Coccothraustes coccothraustes.
- hexanoic — Of or pertaining to hexanoic acid or its derivatives; caproic.
- hindcast — to test (a mathematical model) by observing whether it would have correctly predicted a historical event
- hispanic — Spanish.
- hoactzin — hoatzin.
- humanics — the study of the nature or affairs of humankind.
- hyacinth — a female given name.
- hyrcania — an ancient province of the Persian empire, SE of the Caspian Sea.
- ice rain — freezing rain.
- icekhana — an auto-racing competition testing driving skills on a frozen lake.
- iconical — Pertaining to or consisting of images or icons.
- icosagon — (mathematics) A polygon with twenty sides and twenty angles.
- imitancy — a tendency to imitate
- in clear — (of a message, etc) not in code
- in place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- in vacuo — in a vacuum.
- inaction — absence of action; idleness.
- inactive — not active: an inactive volcano.
- inarched — Simple past tense and past participle of inarch.
- inasmuch — To the extent that; insofar as.
- incanted — Simple past tense and past participle of incant.
- inchmeal — by inches; inch by inch; little by little.
- inchoate — not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary.
- inchtape — a measuring tape marked out in inches
- incisura — (anatomy) a notch or indent.
- incitant — Inciting; stimulating.
- increase — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
- increate — not created; uncreated.
- incroach — Archaic form of encroach.