11-letter words containing s, i, c, a
- hispanicize — to make Spanish or Latin American, as in character, custom, or style.
- holoblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing total cleavage, resulting in equal blastomeres.
- holocaustic — a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.
- homeostatic — the tendency of a system, especially the physiological system of higher animals, to maintain internal stability, owing to the coordinated response of its parts to any situation or stimulus that would tend to disturb its normal condition or function.
- homoblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing no difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
- homoplastic — correspondence in form or structure, owing to a similar environment.
- horseracing — Alternative form of horse racing.
- hsuan chiao — Taoism (def 2).
- hudibrastic — of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
- hydrostatic — of or relating to hydrostatics.
- hyoscyamine — a poisonous alkaloid, C 17 H 23 NO 3 , obtained from henbane and other solanaceous plants, used as a sedative, analgesic, mydriatic, and antispasmodic.
- hyperacusis — (medicine) A heightened sensitivity to some sounds.
- hyperplasic — Relating to hyperplasia.
- hyperstatic — redundant (def 5b).
- hypoblastic — Of, or relating to the hypoblast.
- hypogastric — of, relating to, or situated in the hypogastrium.
- hypoplastic — Pathology. abnormal deficiency of cells or structural elements.
- icarian sea — the part of the Aegean Sea between Turkey and the Greek islands of Patmos and Leros.
- ice station — a camp or base in an isolated part of the Arctic or Antarctic, manned by specialists to monitor the weather, geological formations, wildlife, etc.
- ice-skating — If you go ice-skating, you move about on ice wearing ice-skates. This activity is also a sport.
- icebreakers — Plural form of icebreaker.
- ichthyosaur — any fishlike marine reptile of the extinct order Ichthyosauria, ranging from 4 to 40 feet (1.2 to 12 meters) in length and having a round, tapering body, a large head, four paddlelike flippers, and a vertical caudal fin.
- icing sugar — Icing sugar is very fine white sugar that is used for making icing and sweets.
- iconoclasts — Plural form of iconoclast.
- iconostases — Plural form of iconostasis.
- iconostasis — a partition or screen on which icons are placed, separating the sanctuary from the main part of the church.
- icosahedral — Of, relating to, or having the shape of an icosahedron.
- icosahedron — a solid figure having 20 faces.
- icosandrian — (of a plant) having at least twenty stamens
- icosandrous — belonging to the Icosandria, a class of plants
- immediacies — Plural form of immediacy.
- importances — the quality or state of being important; consequence; significance.
- impuissance — Impotence, weakness.
- in any case — an instance of the occurrence, existence, etc., of something: Sailing in such a storm was a case of poor judgment.
- in articles — formerly, undergoing training, according to the terms of a written contract, in the legal profession
- in chambers — in the privacy of a judge's chambers
- in contrast — If one thing is in contrast to another, it is very different from it.
- inactivates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inactivate.
- inasmuch as — to the extent that, in that
- incalescent — increasing in heat or ardor.
- incandesces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incandesce.
- incanescent — (dated) Becoming hoary or grey; canescent.
- incapacious — Not capacious; narrow, small, weak, or foolish.
- incapsulate — Alternative form of encapsulate.
- incensation — (Roman Catholic Church) The offering of incense.
- incessantly — continuing without interruption; ceaseless; unending: an incessant noise.
- incidentals — happening or likely to happen in an unplanned or subordinate conjunction with something else.
- incinerates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incinerate.
- incitations — Plural form of incitation.
- incompassed — Simple past tense and past participle of incompass.