6-letter words containing i, n, c, t
- induct — to install in an office, benefice, position, etc., especially with formal ceremonies: The committee inducted her as president.
- infact — Misspelling of in fact.
- infect — to affect or contaminate (a person, organ, wound, etc.) with disease-producing germs.
- inject — to force (a fluid) into a passage, cavity, or tissue: to inject a medicine into the veins.
- insect — any animal of the class Insecta, comprising small, air-breathing arthropods having the body divided into three parts (head, thorax, and abdomen), and having three pairs of legs and usually two pairs of wings.
- intact — not altered, broken, or impaired; remaining uninjured, sound, or whole; untouched; unblemished: The vase remained intact despite rough handling.
- intice — Archaic spelling of entice.
- invect — (obsolete) To inveigh.
- lactin — (obsolete) lactose.
- lclint — (tool, programming) A lint-like ANSI C source checker from MIT. If formal specifications are supplied (in a separate file), lclint can do more powerful checking to detect inconsistencies between specifications and code. Adding specifications enables further checking, types can be defined as abstract and lclint can detect inconsistent use of global variables; undocumented modification of client-visible state; inconsistent use of an uninitialised formal parameter; or failure to initialise an actual parameter.
- lectin — any of a group of proteins that bind to particular carbohydrates in the manner of an antibody and are commonly extracted from plants for use as an agglutinin, as in clumping red blood cells for blood typing.
- lentic — pertaining to or living in still water.
- mantic — of or relating to divination.
- nastic — of or showing sufficiently greater cellular force or growth on one side of an axis to change the form or position of the axis.
- natick — a town in E Massachusetts, W of Boston.
- nautic — Alternative form of nautical.
- nicest — pleasing; agreeable; delightful: a nice visit.
- nicety — a delicate or fine point; punctilio: niceties of protocol.
- nitric — containing nitrogen, usually in the pentavalent state.
- nocti- — night
- noctis — (in prescriptions) of the night.
- noetic — of or relating to the mind.
- notice — an announcement or intimation of something impending; warning: a day's notice.
- nycti- — night
- pectin — a white, amorphous, colloidal carbohydrate of high molecular weight occurring in ripe fruits, especially in apples, currants, etc., and used in fruit jellies, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics for its thickening and emulsifying properties and its ability to solidify to a gel.
- peinct — to paint
- pontic — an artificial tooth in a bridge.
- scient — an old word meaning scientific
- snitch — to snatch or steal; pilfer.
- tannic — Chemistry. of, relating to, or derived from tan or tannin.
- ticino — a canton in S Switzerland. 1086 sq. mi. (2813 sq. km). Capital: Bellinzona.
- tincal — a former name for crude native borax.
- tocsin — a signal, especially of alarm, sounded on a bell or bells.
- tunica — a tunic.