8-letter words containing t, i, c, e
- ceratoid — having the shape or texture of animal horn
- cernauti — a city in SW Ukraine, on the Prut River: formerly in Romania.
- cerritos — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 51,000
- certeine — Archaic spelling of certain.
- 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.
- cesspits — Plural form of cesspit.
- chainlet — a small chain of hotels, shops, etc
- chapiter — the capital of a column
- chariest — Superlative form of chary.
- chastise — If you chastise someone, you speak to them angrily or punish them for something wrong that they have done.
- chastize — Alternative form of chastise.
- chatline — People phone in to chatlines to have conversations with other people who have also phoned in.
- chattier — Comparative form of chatty.
- cheating — an instance of rule-breaking
- cheddite — an explosive made by mixing a powdered chlorate or perchlorate with a fatty substance, such as castor oil
- chemists — Plural form of chemist.
- chemnitz — a city in E Germany, in Saxony, at the foot of the Erzgebirge: textiles, engineering. Pop: 249 922 (2003 est)
- chestier — Comparative form of chesty.
- chestily — in a self-important and arrogant manner
- chewiest — Superlative form of chewy.
- chicklet — A small or young chick.
- chiefest — the head or leader of an organized body of people; the person highest in authority: the chief of police.
- chigetai — a variety of the Asiatic wild ass, Equus hemionus, of Mongolia
- chillest — coldness, especially a moderate but uncomfortably penetrating coldness: the chill of evening.
- chimbote — a port in N central Peru: contains Peru's first steelworks (1958), using hydroelectric power from the Santa River. Pop: 328 000 (2005 est)
- chimkent — city in SC Kazakhstan, north of Tashkent: pop. 439,000
- chinfest — gabfest; bull session; rap session.
- chintzes — Plural form of chintz.
- chip set — (hardware) A collection of integrated circuits that are designed to be used together for some specific purpose. E.g. control circuitry in an IBM PC.
- chipotle — a smoked and dried jalapeno chilli pepper that is used in Mexican dishes
- chipsets — Plural form of chipset.
- chlorite — any of a group of green soft secondary minerals consisting of the hydrated silicates of aluminium, iron, and magnesium in monoclinic crystalline form: common in metamorphic rocks
- choicest — an act or instance of choosing; selection: Her choice of a computer was made after months of research. His parents were not happy with his choice of friends.
- chowtime — the time for eating a meal
- chretien — (Joseph Jacques) Jean. born 1934, Canadian Liberal politician; prime minister of Canada (1993–2003)
- christen — When a baby is christened, he or she is given a name during the Christian ceremony of baptism. Compare baptize.
- christer — a Christian, esp. one actively engaged in proselytizing or evangelizing
- christie — Dame Agatha (Mary Clarissa). 1890–1976, British author of detective stories, many featuring Hercule Poirot, and several plays, including The Mousetrap (1952)
- chromite — a brownish-black mineral consisting of a ferrous chromic oxide in cubic crystalline form, occurring principally in basic igneous rocks: the only commercial source of chromium and its compounds. Formula: FeCr2O4
- ciliated — possessing or relating to cilia
- ciliates — Plural form of ciliate.
- ciminite — a rock containing large quantities of trachyte
- cimolite — a soft, clayey mineral of white, grey, or reddish coloration
- cincture — something that encircles or surrounds, esp a belt, girdle, or border
- cineaste — an enthusiast for films
- circlets — Plural form of circlet.
- circulet — Obsolete form of circlet.
- cisterna — a sac or partially closed space containing body fluid, esp lymph or cerebrospinal fluid
- cisterns — Plural form of cistern.
- cistvaen — a pre-Christian stone coffin or burial chamber