9-letter words containing ci
- mucinogen — any of a group of substances from which mucins are derived
- multician — (jargon, person) /muhl-ti'shn/ A term coined at Honeywell, ca. 1970 for a competent user of Multics. Perhaps oddly, no one has ever promoted the analogous "Unician".
- multicide — the murder of many people
- multicity — having or involving more than one city
- municipal — of or relating to a town or city or its local government: municipal elections.
- musciform — (botany) Having the appearance or form of a moss.
- musicians — Plural form of musician.
- mysticism — the beliefs, ideas, or mode of thought of mystics.
- mysticity — involving or characterized by esoteric, otherworldly, or symbolic practices or content, as certain religious ceremonies and art; spiritually significant; ethereal.
- mysticize — to make mystical; give mystical meaning to: to mysticize natural phenomena.
- mythicise — Alt form mythicize.
- mythicism — (theology) the scholarly opinion that the gospel is mythical.
- mythicize — to turn into, treat, or explain as a myth.
- nafcillin — A beta-lactam antibiotic of the penicillin class.
- nancified — effeminate
- narcissus — any bulbous plant belonging to the genus Narcissus, of the amaryllis family, having showy yellow or white flowers with a cup-shaped corona.
- narcistic — inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity. Synonyms: self-centeredness, smugness, egocentrism.
- negociant — wine merchant
- nescience — lack of knowledge; ignorance.
- nonracial — of or relating to the social construct of race: racial diversity; racial stereotypes.
- nonracist — One who is not a racist.
- nonsocial — relating to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club.
- noviciate — The period during which you are a novice.
- nugacious — trivial; unimportant or insignificant; nugatory.
- occiduous — Western; occidental.
- occipital — of, relating to, or situated near the occiput or the occipital bone.
- offencive — Obsolete form of offensive.
- officials — Plural form of official.
- officiant — a person who officiates at a religious service or ceremony.
- officiary — pertaining to or derived from an office, as a title.
- officiate — to perform the office of a member of the clergy, as at a divine service.
- officinal — kept in stock by apothecaries, as a drug. Compare magistral (def 1).
- officious — objectionably aggressive in offering one's unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome: an officious person.
- omphacite — a pale-green variety of pyroxene similar to olivine, found in eclogite.
- opacifier — an agent added to render something opaque
- opacities — the state or quality of being opaque.
- open city — a city that, during a war, is officially declared demilitarized and open to occupation, and that will consequently not be defended, in order to spare it, under international law, from bombardment or other military attack.
- opticians — Plural form of optician.
- orificial — (medicine) Of or relating to the orifices of the body.
- oscillate — to swing or move to and fro, as a pendulum does.
- oscitancy — yawning, as with drowsiness; gaping.
- ostracise — to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc.: His friends ostracized him after his father's arrest.
- ostracism — exclusion, by general consent, from social acceptance, privileges, friendship, etc.
- ostracize — to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc.: His friends ostracized him after his father's arrest.
- ostricize — Misspelling of ostracize.
- outpacing — Present participle of outpace.
- overcivil — too civil
- oxacillin — a semisynthetic penicillin, C 1 9 H 1 9 N 3 O 5 S, used in the treatment of serious staphylococcal infections.
- pacificae — documents of introduction presented by the Christian Church
- pacifical — having an appeasing nature