8-letter words containing i, s, e
- canities — greyness or whiteness of hair
- canoeist — A canoeist is someone who is skilled at racing and performing tests of skill in a canoe.
- canonise — Ecclesiastical. to place in the canon of saints.
- canopies — Plural form of canopy.
- capelins — Plural form of capelin.
- capeskin — a soft leather obtained from the skins of a type of lamb or sheep having hairlike wool
- capiases — Plural form of capias.
- caprices — Plural form of caprice.
- caprines — Plural form of caprine.
- capsized — Simple past tense and past participle of capsize.
- capsizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of capsize.
- captives — Plural form of captive; persons held prisoner.
- carbines — Plural form of carbine.
- caribees — See under Antilles.
- carioles — Plural form of cariole.
- carlisle — a city in NW England, administrative centre of Cumbria: railway and industrial centre. Pop: 71 773 (2001)
- carriers — Plural form of carrier.
- cashiers — Plural form of cashier.
- casimere — cassimere
- cassiope — (sometimes initial capital letter) any evergreen shrub belonging to the genus Cassiope, of the heath family, having nodding white or pinkish solitary flowers and scalelike or needlelike leaves.
- cassirer — Ernst (ɛrnst). 1874–1945, German neo-Kantian philosopher. The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms (1923–29) analyses the symbols that underlie all manifestations, including myths and language, of human culture
- casteism — the belief in, and adherence to, the caste system
- castries — the capital and chief port of St Lucia. Pop: 14 000 (2005 est)
- cathexis — concentration of psychic energy on a single goal
- catslide — (in early American architecture) a steep roof ending close to the ground, as on a saltbox.
- cattiest — catlike; feline.
- causerie — an informal talk or conversational piece of writing
- cavefish — any of various small freshwater cyprinodont fishes of the genera Amblyopsis, Chologaster, etc, living in subterranean and other waters in S North America
- cavities — Plural form of cavity.
- cedillas — Plural form of cedilla.
- ceilidhs — Plural form of ceilidh.
- ceilings — Plural form of ceiling.
- cellfish — using a mobile phone in a way that disregards the wishes of other people
- cellists — Plural form of cellist.
- celloist — (rare) synonym of cellist.
- centesis — the surgical puncturing of a part of the body with a hollow needle in order to extract fluid
- centimes — Plural form of centime.
- centimos — Plural form of centimo.
- centoist — a person who composes centos
- centries — Plural form of centry.
- centrism — (especially in continental Europe) a member of a political party of the Center; moderate.
- centrist — Centrist policies and parties are moderate rather than extreme.
- ceramics — the art and techniques of producing articles of clay, porcelain, etc
- ceramist — a person who works in ceramics; ceramic artist
- cerritos — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 51,000
- cervices — cervix
- cesarian — Also called Cesarean section, C-section. an operation by which a fetus is taken from the uterus by cutting through the walls of the abdomen and uterus.
- cessavit — (UK, legal, obsolete) A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.
- cessions — Plural form of cession.
- cesspipe — a waste pipe, especially one discharging from a cesspool.