9-letter words containing ci
- cineramic — relating to a cinematic process producing widescreen images
- cineraria — a plant, Senecio cruentus, of the Canary Islands, widely cultivated for its blue, purple, red, or variegated daisy-like flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
- cinerator — an incinerator.
- cinereous — of a greyish colour
- cingulate — Anatomy, Zoology. a belt, zone, or girdlelike part.
- cinnamate — (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of cinnamic acid.
- cinnamene — styrene.
- cinnamons — Plural form of cinnamon.
- cinnamony — reminiscent of cinnamon
- cinquedea — an Italian short sword of the late 15th and early 16th centuries having a broad, tapering blade, often richly ornamented.
- ciphering — calculating
- circadian — of or relating to biological processes that occur regularly at about 24-hour intervals, even in the absence of periodicity in the environment
- circassia — a region of S Russia, on the Black Sea north of the Caucasus Mountains
- circinate — (of part of a plant, such as a young fern) coiled so that the tip is at the centre
- circle-in — a closed plane curve consisting of all points at a given distance from a point within it called the center. Equation: x 2 + y 2 = r 2 .
- circuital — an act or instance of going or moving around.
- circuited — Simple past tense and past participle of circuit.
- circuiter — a person who travels a circuit.
- circuitry — Circuitry is a system of electric circuits.
- circulant — (mathematics) A circulant matrix.
- circulars — Plural form of circular.
- circulary — (obsolete) circular; illogical.
- circulate — If a piece of writing circulates or is circulated, copies of it are passed round among a group of people.
- circumfer — (obsolete, transitive) To bear or carry around.
- circumfix — a prefix and a suffix attached to a root or stem, as the a and -ing in a-going.
- cirenaica — Cyrenaica
- cirrhosis — Cirrhosis or cirrhosis of the liver is a disease which destroys a person's liver and which can kill them. It is often caused by drinking too much alcohol.
- cirrhotic — a disease of the liver characterized by increase of connective tissue and alteration in gross and microscopic makeup.
- cirriform — cirrus-like
- cirripede — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, including the barnacles, the adults of which are sessile or parasitic
- cirripeds — Plural form of cirriped.
- cis woman — an adult who was born female and whose gender identity is female.
- cisalpine — on this (the southern) side of the Alps, as viewed from Rome
- cisgender — of or relating to a person whose gender identity corresponds to their assigned birth gender
- cispadane — on this (the southern) side of the River Po, as viewed from Rome
- cisplatin — a cytotoxic drug that acts by preventing DNA replication and hence cell division, used in the treatment of tumours, esp of the ovary and testis
- cissexual — noting or relating to a person who is comfortable with having the physical characteristics of that person’s biological sex.
- cissified — effeminate
- cisternae — Plural form of cisterna.
- cistronic — cistron-related
- citations — Plural form of citation.
- cithaeron — a mountain range in SE Greece: sacred to Dionysus, in Greek mythology. to 4623 feet (1409 meters).
- citharist — a player of the cithara
- citigrade — relating to (fast-moving) wolf spiders
- citizenly — Pertaining to citizens.
- citizenry — The people living in a country, state, or city can be referred to as the citizenry.
- city code — (in Britain) short for City Code on Takeovers and Mergers: a code laid down in 1968 (later modified) to control takeover bids and mergers
- city desk — the department of a newspaper office dealing with financial and commercial news
- city hall — The city hall is the building which a city council uses as its main offices.
- city plan — the developmental plan for a city or town arrived at through the process of city planning.