8-letter words containing s, e, a, i
- brisbane — a port in E Australia, the capital of Queensland: founded in 1824 as a penal settlement; vast agricultural hinterland. Pop: 2 189 878 (2013)
- cabinets — Plural form of cabinet.
- caciques — Plural form of cacique.
- caddised — trimmed with caddis
- caecitis — an inflammation of the caecum
- caesious — having a waxy bluish-grey coating
- caesuric — caesural
- caffeism — a morbid condition caused by excessive caffeine intake
- caginess — cautious, wary, or shrewd: a cagey reply to the probing question.
- cairenes — (sometimes lowercase) of or relating to Cairo, Egypt.
- cakiness — the state of being cakey
- calibers — Plural form of caliber.
- calibres — Plural form of calibre.
- caliches — Plural form of caliche.
- calicoes — Plural form of calico.
- calipers — Usually, calipers. an instrument for measuring thicknesses and internal or external diameters inaccessible to a scale, consisting usually of a pair of adjustable pivoted legs.
- calories — Thermodynamics. Also called gram calorie, small calorie. an amount of heat exactly equal to 4.1840 joules. Abbreviation: cal. (usually initial capital letter) kilocalorie. Abbreviation: Cal.
- camelids — Plural form of camelid.
- camelish — similar to a camel
- camisole — A camisole is a short piece of clothing that women wear on the top half of their bodies underneath a shirt or blouse, for example.
- campiest — of, relating to, or characterized by camp: a campy send-up of romantic operetta.
- campsite — A campsite is a place where people who are on holiday can stay in tents.
- canalise — (British spelling) To convert a river or other waterway into a canal.
- canaries — Plural form of canary.
- canistel — an evergreen tree, Pouteria campechiana, that is native to Central America and the West Indies
- canister — A canister is a strong metal container. It is used to hold gases or chemical substances.
- 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