8-letter words containing cit
- fat city — an easy and prosperous condition or circumstance: With a new house and a better-paying job, she's in Fat City.
- felicita — a female given name, form of Felicia.
- felicity — the state of being happy, especially in a high degree; bliss: marital felicity.
- feracity — (obsolete) The state of being feracious, or fruitful.
- ferocity — a ferocious quality or state; savage fierceness.
- fugacity — fleeting; transitory: a sensational story with but a fugacious claim on the public's attention.
- furacity — (obsolete) Addictedness to theft; thievishness.
- helicity — Helical character, especially of DNA.
- implicit — implied, rather than expressly stated: implicit agreement.
- incitant — Inciting; stimulating.
- inciting — to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action: to incite a crowd to riot.
- ionicity — (uncountable) The condition of being ionic.
- kamacite — a nickel-iron alloy found in meteorites.
- lecithal — having a yolk, as certain eggs or ova.
- lecithin — Biochemistry. any of a group of phospholipids, occurring in animal and plant tissues and egg yolk, composed of units of choline, phosphoric acid, fatty acids, and glycerol.
- malecite — a member of a North American Indian people of southern and western New Brunswick and northern Maine.
- megacity — a city having a population of one million or more.
- minacity — menacing; threatening.
- new city — a city in SE New York.
- nugacity — triviality; insignificance.
- oil city — a city in NW Pennsylvania, on the Allegheny River.
- op. cit. — In reference books, op. cit. is used after an author's name to refer to a book of theirs which has already been mentioned.
- oscitant — yawning, as with drowsiness; gaping.
- oscitate — To gape; to yawn.
- placitum — a plea made in court on behalf of a person or group
- precited — cited previously
- pudicity — modesty; chastity
- pumicite — a fine-grained pumice-like volcanic ash
- rapacity — given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
- reincite — to incite again
- sagacity — acuteness of mental discernment and soundness of judgment.
- salacity — lustful or lecherous.
- scarcity — insufficiency or shortness of supply; dearth.
- scituate — a town in E Massachusetts.
- sericite — a fine-grained variety of muscovite produced by the alteration of feldspar.
- solicits — to seek for (something) by entreaty, earnest or respectful request, formal application, etc.: He solicited aid from the minister.
- solicity — a request
- sub-city — a large or important town.
- sufficit — as much as suffices; enough.
- sun city — city in SC Arizona: pop. 38,000
- tacitean — of, relating to, or characteristic of Publius Cornelius Tacitus.
- taciturn — inclined to silence; reserved in speech; reluctant to join in conversation.
- tenacity — the quality of being tenacious, or of holding fast; persistence: the amazing tenacity of rumors.
- the city — the financial and commercial district of Greater London
- tonicity — tonic quality or condition.
- toxicity — the quality, relative degree, or specific degree of being toxic or poisonous: to determine the toxicity of arsenic.
- tri-city — of or relating to a metropolitan area consisting of three separate but interdependent cities: an instance of tri-city cooperation.
- velocity — rapidity of motion or operation; swiftness; speed: a high wind velocity.
- veracity — habitual observance of truth in speech or statement; truthfulness: He was not noted for his veracity.
- vivacity — the quality or state of being vivacious.