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8-letter words containing s, a, c, l, i

  • sicilian — an island in the Mediterranean, constituting a region of Italy, and separated from the SW tip of the mainland by the Strait of Messina: largest island in the Mediterranean. 9924 sq. mi. (25,705 sq. km). Capital: Palermo.
  • sidalcea — any plant of the mostly perennial N American genus Sidalcea, related to and resembling mallow, esp S. malvaeflora, grown for its spikes of lilac, pink, or red flowers: family Malvaceae
  • silastic — a flexible inert silicone rubber, used esp in prosthetic medicine
  • silicate — Mineralogy. any of the largest group of mineral compounds, as quartz, beryl, garnet, feldspar, mica, and various kinds of clay, consisting of SiO 2 or SiO 4 groupings and one or more metallic ions, with some forms containing hydrogen. Silicates constitute well over 90 percent of the rock-forming minerals of the earth's crust.
  • silicula — a short broad siliqua, occurring in such cruciferous plants as honesty and shepherd's-purse
  • silvatic — of or relating to the forest; sylvan
  • silvical — relating to silvics
  • sinclair — Harry Ford, 1876–1956, U.S. oil businessman: a major figure in the Teapot Dome scandal.
  • slacking — not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
  • slavonic — Slavonian.
  • slipcase — a box for a book or set of books, open on one side so that the spine is visible.
  • sociable — inclined to associate with or be in the company of others.
  • sociably — inclined to associate with or be in the company of others.
  • socially — relating to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club.
  • societal — noting or pertaining to large social groups, or to their activities, customs, etc.
  • spicular — relating to or characteristic of spicula
  • spiracle — a breathing hole; an opening by which a confined space has communication with the outer air; air hole.
  • statical — pertaining to or characterized by a fixed or stationary condition.
  • sterical — of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
  • subclaim — a claim that is part of a larger claim
  • suicidal — pertaining to, involving, or suggesting suicide.
  • sulindac — a yellow crystalline substance, C 2 0 H 1 7 FO 3 S, that is used as an analgesic, antipyretic, and anti-inflammatory in the treatment of certain rheumatic diseases.
  • sultanic — the sovereign of an Islamic country.
  • surgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
  • syllabic — of, relating to, or consisting of a syllable or syllables.
  • sylvatic — sylvan.
  • synalgic — referred pain.
  • syndical — of or relating to a union of persons engaged in a particular trade.
  • tieclasp — a clip, often ornamental, which holds a tie in place against a shirt
  • unsocial — relating to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club.
  • vassalic — of, relating to, or resembling a vassal or vassalage.
  • victuals — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
  • visceral — of or relating to the viscera.
  • visicalc — (application, tool, business, history)   /vi'zi-calk/ The first spreadsheet program, conceived in 1978 by Dan Bricklin, while he was an MBA student at Harvard Business School. Inspired by a demonstration given by Douglas Engelbart of a point-and-click user interface, Bricklin set out to design an application that would combine the intuitiveness of pencil and paper calculations with the power of a programmable pocket calculator. Bricklin's design was based on the (paper) financial spreadsheet, a kind of document already used in business planning. (Some of Bricklin's notes for VisiCalc were scribbled on the back of a spreadsheet pad.) VisiCalc was probably not the first application to use a spreadsheet model, but it did have a number of original features, all of which continue to be fundamental to spreadsheet software. These include point-and-type editing, range replication and formulas that update automatically with changes to other cells. VisiCalc is widely credited with creating the sudden demand for desktop computers that helped fuel the microcomputer boom of the early 1980s. Thousands of business people with little or no technical expertise found that they could use VisiCalc to create sophisticated financial programs. This makes VisiCalc one of the first killer apps.
  • vocalics — the non-verbal aspects of voice creation
  • vocalise — a musical composition consisting of the singing of melody with vowel sounds or nonsense syllables rather than text, as for special effect in classical compositions, in polyphonic jazz singing by special groups, or in virtuoso vocal exercises.
  • vocalism — Phonetics. a vowel, diphthong, triphthong, or vowel quality, as in a syllable. the system of vowels of a language.
  • vocalist — a singer.
  • volscian — of or relating to the Volsci or to their language.
  • wildcats — Plural form of wildcat.
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