9-letter words containing ci
- city room — the room in which local news is handled for a newspaper, a radio or television station, or for another journalistic agency.
- city-born — born in a city.
- city-bred — reared in a city.
- cityscape — an urban landscape; view of a city
- civet cat — any of several nocturnal, catlike carnivores (family Viverridae) of Africa, India, Malaysia, and S China, with spotted, yellowish fur: valued for its civet (sense 1)
- civetlike — resembling a civet
- civically — of or relating to a city; municipal: civic problems.
- civil day — day (def 3c).
- civil law — Civil law is the part of a country's set of laws which is concerned with the private affairs of citizens, for example marriage and property ownership, rather than with crime.
- civil war — A civil war is a war which is fought between different groups of people who live in the same country.
- civilians — Plural form of civilian.
- civilised — to bring out of a savage, uneducated, or rude state; make civil; elevate in social and private life; enlighten; refine: Rome civilized the barbarians.
- civiliser — Alternative form of civilizer.
- civilises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of civilise.
- civilized — If you describe a society as civilized, you mean that it is advanced and has sensible laws and customs.
- civilizer — to bring out of a savage, uneducated, or rude state; make civil; elevate in social and private life; enlighten; refine: Rome civilized the barbarians.
- civilizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of civilize.
- civilness — of, relating to, or consisting of citizens: civil life; civil society.
- civitates — the body of citizens who constitute a state, especially a city-state, commonwealth, or the like.
- clericity — the condition of being a clergyman
- clinician — A clinician is a doctor who specializes in clinical work.
- cliticize — to pronounce as part of a following or preceding word
- cloacitis — inflammation of the cloaca in birds, including domestic fowl, and other animals with a common opening of the urinary and gastrointestinal tracts
- clonicity — of or relating to clonus.
- cnidocils — Plural form of cnidocil.
- coccidium — any parasitic protozoan of the order Coccidia
- coercible — to compel by force, intimidation, or authority, especially without regard for individual desire or volition: They coerced him into signing the document.
- coercibly — in a coercible way
- coercions — Plural form of coercion.
- coincided — to occupy the same place in space, the same point or period in time, or the same relative position: The centers of concentric circles coincide. Our vacations coincided this year.
- coincides — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coincide.
- compacity — Any of several technical measures of compactness, especially, in a granular medium (e.g. sand), the volume fraction that is filled.
- complicit — If someone is complicit in a crime or unfair activity, they are involved in it.
- concience — Misspelling of conscience.
- concierge — (Britain) One who attends to the maintenance of a building and provides services to its tenants and visitors.
- conciliar — of, from, or by means of a council, esp an ecclesiastical one
- concisely — expressing or covering much in few words; brief in form but comprehensive in scope; succinct; terse: a concise explanation of the company's retirement plan.
- concision — the quality of being concise; brevity; terseness
- condicion — Obsolete spelling of condition.
- conducing — Present participle of conduce.
- conducive — If one thing is conducive to another thing, it makes the other thing likely to happen.
- confucian — of or relating to the doctrines of Confucius
- confucius — Chinese name Kong Zi or K'ung Fu-tse. 551–479 bc, Chinese philosopher and teacher of ethics (see Confucianism). His doctrines were compiled after his death under the title The Analects of Confucius
- conscient — conscious
- conscious — If you are conscious of something, you notice it or realize that it is happening.
- consocies — a natural community with a single dominant species
- coppicing — Present participle of coppice.
- core city — central city.
- cornicing — a moulding or other material used to make cornices
- councilor — A councilor is a member of a local council.