8-letter words containing dic
- helladic — of or relating to the Bronze Age culture on the mainland of ancient Greece c2900–1100 b.c.
- heraldic — of, relating to, or characteristic of heralds or heraldry: heraldic form; heraldic images; heraldic history; a heraldic device.
- indicant — something that indicates; indicator.
- indicate — to be a sign of; betoken; evidence; show: His hesitation really indicates his doubt about the venture.
- indicial — of, relating to, or resembling an indication; indicative: behavior indicial of a personality disorder.
- indicium — indicia (def 2).
- indicted — (of a grand jury) to bring a formal accusation against, as a means of bringing to trial: The grand jury indicted him for murder.
- indictee — (of a grand jury) to bring a formal accusation against, as a means of bringing to trial: The grand jury indicted him for murder.
- indicter — One who indicts.
- indictor — (of a grand jury) to bring a formal accusation against, as a means of bringing to trial: The grand jury indicted him for murder.
- isodicon — (in the Greek Orthodox Church) a short anthem performed while the Gospel is being carried into a church
- jaundice — Also called icterus. Pathology. yellow discoloration of the skin, whites of the eyes, etc., due to an increase of bile pigments in the blood, often symptomatic of certain diseases, as hepatitis. Compare physiologic jaundice.
- judicare — a federally funded program providing free or low-cost legal services to the poor.
- judicial — pertaining to judgment in courts of justice or to the administration of justice: judicial proceedings; the judicial system.
- laodicea — ancient name of Latakia.
- lodicule — one of the specialized scales at the base of the ovary of certain grass flowers.
- maenadic — (Greek mythology) Of, or pertaining to the maenad.
- maledict — accursed.
- medicaid — a U.S. government program, financed by federal, state, and local funds, of hospitalization and medical insurance for persons of all ages within certain income limits.
- medicals — Plural form of medical.
- medicant — a healing substance; medicine; remedy.
- medicare — (sometimes lowercase) a U.S. government program of hospitalization insurance and voluntary medical insurance for persons aged 65 and over and for certain disabled persons under 65. Compare Medicaid.
- medicate — to treat with medicine or medicaments.
- medicean — Catherine de', Catherine de Médicis.
- medician — (chiefly in science fiction) A physician, a medical doctor; a medic.
- medicide — a suicide facilitated by a physician. Compare assisted suicide.
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- melodica — A wind instrument with a small keyboard controlling a row of reeds, and a mouthpiece at one end.
- melodics — the branch of musical science concerned with the pitch and succession of tones.
- methodic — performed, disposed, or acting in a systematic way; systematic; orderly: a methodical person.
- molybdic — of or containing molybdenum, especially in the trivalent or hexavalent states, as molybdic acid, H 2 MoO 4 .
- nuclidic — Of or pertaining to nuclides.
- nudicaul — having leafless stems.
- odically — In terms of the hypothetical force called od.
- palladic — of or containing palladium, especially in the tetravalent state.
- pedicure — professional care and treatment of the feet, as removal of corns and trimming of toenails.
- pendicle — a piece of land or property forming a subsidiary to an estate
- pentadic — of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a pentad
- peptidic — of or pertaining to peptides; of the nature of peptides
- periodic — of or derived from a periodic acid.
- polyadic — (of a relation, operation, etc) having several argument places, as … moves … from … to …, which might be represented as Mpox1y1z1t1x2y2z2t2 where p names a person, o an object, and each t a time, and each <x,y,z> the coordinates of a place
- prosodic — the science or study of poetic meters and versification.
- pudicity — modesty; chastity
- radicand — the quantity under a radical sign.
- radicant — rooting from the stem, as ivy.
- radicate — to (cause to) take root
- readdict — to cause (a person) to become addicted to something again
- reindict — (of a grand jury) to bring a formal accusation against, as a means of bringing to trial: The grand jury indicted him for murder.
- ridicule — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
- saccadic — characterized by discontinuous or sporadic movement; jerky.