8-letter words containing cin
- fascines — Plural form of fascine.
- fascinum — An ivory phallus used in certain ancient erotic rites.
- fleecing — the coat of wool that covers a sheep or a similar animal.
- floccing — Also, flock. a tuftlike mass, as in a chemical precipitate.
- forcings — Plural form of forcing.
- francine — a female given name, form of Frances.
- garcinia — Mangosteen (of the genus Garcinia).
- glancing — striking obliquely and bouncing off at an angle: a glancing blow.
- glucinic — relating to glucinium
- glucinum — (formerly) beryllium. Symbol: Gl.
- hyacinth — a female given name.
- hyoscine — scopolamine.
- inducing — Present participle of induce.
- inticing — Present participle of intice.
- jacinthe — a yellowish orange
- jouncing — Present participle of jounce.
- laciness — a lacy quality or state
- lacinias — Botany. a jagged or irregular part of a leaf or petal.
- lancings — Plural form of lancing.
- limacine — pertaining to or resembling a slug; sluglike.
- macintoy — /mak'in-toy/ The Apple Macintosh, considered as a toy. Less pejorative than Macintrash.
- manacing — Present participle of manace.
- mcintire — Samuel, 1757–1811, U.S. architect and woodcarver.
- mcintosh — a variety of red apple that ripens in early autumn.
- mcintyre — James Francis Aloysius, 1886–1979, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman: cardinal from 1953; archbishop of Los Angeles 1948–70.
- medecine — Misspelling of medicine.
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- menacing — something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
- mucinoid — any of a class of glycoproteins found in saliva, gastric juice, etc., that form viscous solutions and act as lubricants or protectants on external and internal surfaces of the body.
- mucinous — Of, pertaining to or containing mucin.
- musicing — The art or process of making music.
- neomycin — an antibiotic produced by an actinomycete, Streptomyces fradiae, administered orally or locally, used chiefly for skin, urinary tract, and eye infections and as a surgical antiseptic.
- noticing — an announcement or intimation of something impending; warning: a day's notice.
- oscinine — of or relating to the Oscines
- oxytocin — Biochemistry. a polypeptide hormone, produced by the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland, that stimulates contraction of the smooth muscle of the uterus.
- piccinni — Niccolò [neek-kaw-law] /ˌnik kɔˈlɔ/ (Show IPA), or Nicola [nee-kaw-lah] /niˈkɔ lɑ/ (Show IPA), 1728–1800, Italian composer.
- piercing — loud or shrill, as the quality of a voice.
- placings — The placings in a competition are the relative positions of the competitors at the end or at a particular stage of the competition.
- policing — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
- prancing — to spring from the hind legs; to move by springing, as a horse.
- precinct — a district, as of a city, marked out for governmental or administrative purposes, or for police protection.
- prescind — to separate or single out in thought; abstract.
- procinct — the state of preparedness
- psilocin — a psilocybin metabolite with strong hallucinogenic potency, produced after ingestion of the mushroom Psilocybe mexicana.
- quercine — of or relating to an oak.
- racinage — decorative treatment of leather with colors and acids to produce a branchlike effect.
- raciness — slightly improper or indelicate; suggestive; risqué.
- reducing — to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds.
- relacing — a netlike ornamental fabric made of threads by hand or machine.
- resorcin — a white, needlelike, water-soluble solid, C 6 H 6 O 2 , a benzene derivative originally obtained from certain resins, now usually synthesized: used chiefly in making dyes, as a reagent, in tanning, in the synthesis of certain resins, and in medicine in treating certain skin conditions; meta-dihydroxybenzene.