9-letter words containing ci
- anciently — in ancient times
- ancientry — the quality of being ancient, or old-fashioned style
- ancillary — The ancillary workers in an institution are the people such as cleaners and cooks whose work supports the main work of the institution.
- ancipital — flattened and having two edges
- anglicise — (transitive) To make English, as to customs, culture, pronunciation, spelling, or style.
- anglicism — a word, phrase, or idiom peculiar to the English language, esp as spoken in England
- anglicist — an expert in or student of English literature or language
- anglicize — If you anglicize something, you change it so that it resembles or becomes part of the English language or English culture.
- anthracic — relating to anthrax
- anticivic — opposed to citizenship
- antimycin — an antibiotic drug active against various fungi
- antiscian — relating to a person living on the other side of the equator at the same meridian
- apothecia — the fruit of certain lichens and fungi: usually an open, saucer-shaped or cup-shaped body, the inner surface of which is covered with a layer that bears asci.
- apreciate — Misspelling of appreciate.
- arabicize — to make or become Arab
- ascidians — Plural form of ascidian.
- ascidiate — of or relating to the tunicate molluscs of the genus Ascidium
- ascii art — (graphics) (Or "character graphics", "ASCII graphics") The fine art of drawing diagrams using the ASCII character set (mainly "|-/\+"). See also boxology. Here is a serious example: o----)||(--+--|<----+ +---------o + D O L )||( | | | C U A I )||( +-->|-+ | +-\/\/-+--o - T C N )||( | | | | P E )||( +-->|-+--)---+--)|--+-o U )||( | | | GND T o----)||(--+--|<----+----------+ A power supply consisting of a full wave rectifier circuit feeding a capacitor input filter circuit Figure 1. And here are some very silly examples: +--------------------------------------------------------+ | ^^^^^^^^^^^^ | | ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ | | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | | ^^^^^^^ B ^^^^^^^^^ | | ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | +--------------------------------------------------------+ "A Bee in the Carrot Patch" Figure 3. Within humorous ASCII art, there is, for some reason, an entire flourishing subgenre of pictures of silly cows. One is shown in Figure 2; here are three more:
- associate — If you associate someone or something with another thing, the two are connected in your mind.
- astucious — Subtle; cunning; astute.
- atomicity — the state of being made up of atoms
- atonicity — lack of tone; atony.
- atrocious — If you describe something as atrocious, you are emphasizing that its quality is very bad.
- audacious — Someone who is audacious takes risks in order to achieve something.
- audiencia — a high court, found in South America during the colonial period
- auspicial — of or relating to auspices: auspicial rites.
- auspicing — (AU) administration of a grant by one group on behalf of another.
- autecious — autoecious
- autocidal — (of insect pest control) effected by the introduction of sterile or genetically altered individuals into the wild population
- autoecism — the development of the entire life cycle of a parasitic fungus on a single host or group of hosts.
- avoparcin — an antibiotic, now banned in the EU, formerly used to treat farm animals
- b special — a member of a part-time largely Protestant police force formerly functioning in Northern Ireland
- bacciform — shaped like a berry
- bacillary — of, relating to, or caused by bacilli
- balancing — the process of achieving or maintaining equilibrium
- barmecide — lavish or plentiful in imagination only; illusory; sham
- beccaccia — a woodcock
- belgicism — a word or expression used by Belgians when speaking French or Dutch
- bibacious — tending to drink in excess
- biblicism — an adherence to the literal sense of the Bible
- biblicist — a biblical scholar
- bicipital — having two heads
- bile acid — any of various steroid acids, produced in the liver and stored with bile, that emulsify fats during digestion.
- biosocial — relating to the interaction of biological and social elements
- bleomycin — a glycopeptide antibiotic drug used in the treatment of cancer and Hodgkin's Disease
- boccaccio — Giovanni (dʒoˈvani). 1313–75, Italian poet and writer, noted particularly for his Decameron (1353), a collection of 100 short stories. His other works include Filostrato (?1338) and Teseida (1341)
- bodacious — If you say that someone or something is bodacious, you mean that they are very good or impressive.
- bononcini — Giovanni Maria [jaw-vahn-nee mah-ree-ah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1640–78, and his sons Giovanni Battista [baht-tee-stah] /bɑtˈti stɑ/ (Show IPA) 1670–1747, and Marc Antonio [mahrk ahn-taw-nyaw] /mɑrk ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA) 1675–1726, Italian composers.
- boxercise — a system of sustained exercises combining boxing movements with aerobic activities
- bracingly — strengthening; invigorating: This mountain air is bracing.