8-letter words containing s, a, c, i
- practise — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- priscian — flourished a.d. c500, Latin grammarian.
- quackish — a fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill.
- quadrics — Plural form of quadric.
- quantics — Plural form of quantic.
- racemism — (of a compound) the state of being optically inactive and separable into two other substances of the same chemical composition as the original substance, one of which is dextrorotatory and the other levorotatory, as racemic acid.
- rachises — Plural form of rachis.
- rachitis — rickets.
- raciness — slightly improper or indelicate; suggestive; risqué.
- richards — a male given name.
- rickshaw — jinrikisha.
- rustical — of, relating to, or living in the country, as distinguished from towns or cities; rural.
- sabbatic — of or pertaining or appropriate to the Sabbath.
- saccadic — characterized by discontinuous or sporadic movement; jerky.
- sacristy — an apartment in or a building connected with a church or a religious house, in which the sacred vessels, vestments, etc., are kept.
- sadistic — pertaining to or characterized by sadism; deriving pleasure or sexual gratification from extreme cruelty: a sadistic psychopath.
- sagacity — acuteness of mental discernment and soundness of judgment.
- salacity — lustful or lecherous.
- salience — the state or condition of being salient.
- saliency — salience.
- salpicon — a mixture of chopped fish, meat, or vegetables in a sauce, used as fillings for croquettes, pastries, etc
- salvific — of or relating to redemptive power.
- samsaric — of or relating to samsara
- sanctify — to make holy; set apart as sacred; consecrate.
- sanction — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- sanctity — holiness, saintliness, or godliness.
- sandwich — a town in E Kent, in SE England: one of the Cinque Ports.
- sanscrit — Sanskrit
- santalic — of sandalwood
- sapience — having or showing great wisdom or sound judgment.
- sapiency — having or showing great wisdom or sound judgment.
- saprobic — saprophyte.
- sapucaia — a Brazilian tree of the genus Lecythis
- sarcinae — any of several spherical, saprophytic bacteria of the genus Sarcina, having a cuboidal cell arrangement.
- sarcodic — pertaining to the sarcode or protoplasm of an animal
- sardonic — characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.
- sarmatic — of or relating to Sarmatia or its inhabitants
- saturnic — having or affected with lead-poisoning
- saucisse — a small sausage
- saxicole — living on or among rocks
- scabiosa — any of genus (Scabiosa) of plants of the teasel family, having showy, variously colored flowers in flattened or dome-shaped heads, as the sweet scabiosa (S. atropurpurea), often cultivated as a garden flower
- scabious — covered with or consisting of scabs; scabby.
- scalding — to burn or affect painfully with or as if with hot liquid or steam.
- scaldino — an Italian earthen brazier
- scaliger — Joseph Justus [juhs-tuh s] /ˈdʒʌs təs/ (Show IPA), 1540–1609, French scholar and critic.
- scallion — any onion that does not form a large bulb; green onion.
- scalping — the integument of the upper part of the head, usually including the associated subcutaneous structures.
- scalpins — small stones used to improve drainage
- scamming — a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; swindle.
- scamping — an unscrupulous and often mischievous person; rascal; rogue; scalawag.