7-letter words containing i, s, a, c
- chiasma — the cross-shaped connection produced by the crossing over of pairing chromosomes during meiosis
- chiasmi — Plural form of chiasmus.
- chinars — Plural form of chinar.
- cicadas — Plural form of cicada.
- cicalas — Plural form of cicala.
- cidaris — a sea urchin in the class Echinoidea
- cimaise — a pewter wine jar having a spout, a fixed handle on the side opposite the spout, and a bail for carrying.
- cineast — An enthusiast of film and the cinema.
- cinemas — Plural form of cinema.
- circars — Plural form of circar.
- cis man — an adult who was born male and whose gender identity is male.
- ciseaux — a jump in which the dancer's legs are opened wide in the air and closed on landing.
- civitas — the body of citizens who constitute a state, especially a city-state, commonwealth, or the like.
- cladism — the cladistic method of classification.
- cladist — a specialist in cladistics
- classic — A classic example of a thing or situation has all the features which you expect such a thing or situation to have.
- classis — a governing body of elders or pastors
- clastic — (of sedimentary rock, etc) composed of fragments of pre-existing rock that have been transported some distance from their points of origin
- clavius — one of the largest of the craters on the moon, about 230 kilometres (145 miles) in diameter, whose walls have peaks up to 5700 metres (19 000 feet) above the floor. It lies in the SE quadrant
- clayish — Resembling clay.
- coalise — to form a coalition
- corsair — a pirate
- corsica — an island in the Mediterranean, west of N Italy: forms, with 43 islets, a region of France; mountainous; settled by Greeks in about 560 bc; sold by Genoa to France in 1768. Capital: Ajaccio. Pop: 265 999 (2003 est). Area: 8682 sq km (3367 sq miles)
- costain — Thomas Bertram, 1885–1965, U.S. novelist, historian, and editor, born in Canada.
- crazies — mentally deranged; demented; insane.
- crissal — of or relating to the crissum.
- cristae — a crest or ridge.
- cuirass — a piece of armour, of leather or metal covering the chest and back
- cumbias — Plural form of cumbia.
- curiosa — curiosities
- cycasin — a glucoside occurring in cycads, toxic and carcinogenic to mammals
- cymaise — a pewter wine jar having a spout, a fixed handle on the side opposite the spout, and a bail for carrying.
- czarism — the Russian government under the czars
- czarist — a variant spelling (esp US) of tsarist
- dacoits — Plural form of dacoit.
- de sica — Vittorio (vitˈtɔːrjo). 1902–74, Italian film actor and director. His films, in the neorealist tradition, include Shoeshine (1946) and Bicycle Thieves (1948)
- diascia — a S African plant with pink flowers
- dibasic — (of an acid, such as sulphuric acid, H2SO4) containing two acidic hydrogen atoms
- discage — to release (an animal or bird) from a cage
- discant — Also, discantus [dis-kan-tuh s] /dɪsˈkæn təs/ (Show IPA). Music. a 13th-century polyphonic style with strict mensural meter in all the voice parts, in contrast to the metrically free organum of the period.
- discard — to cast aside or dispose of; get rid of: to discard an old hat.
- discase — to take the case or covering from; uncase.
- discman — a small portable CD player with light headphones
- dispace — to move or travel about
- drastic — acting with force or violence; violent.
- ecbasis — (rhetoric) A figure in which the orator treats things according to their events or consequences.
- ectasia — (medicine) ectasis.
- ectasis — Dilatation: for example, bronchiectasis, which refers to a pathologic dilatation of the bronchi of the lung.
- elastic — (of an object or material) able to resume its normal shape spontaneously after contraction, dilatation, or distortion.
- emiscan — a computerized radiological technique for examining the soft tissues of the body, esp the brain, to detect the presence of tumours, abscesses, etc