13-letter words containing ic
- brown hickory — a North American hickory tree, Carya glabra
- bush sickness — an animal disease caused by a cobalt deficiency in old bush country
- butanoic acid — kind of acid
- cabbalistical — cabbalistic
- cacographical — Synonym of cacographic.
- calcification — the process of calcifying or becoming calcified
- calico flower — a Brazilian woody vine, Aristolochia elegans, of the birthwort family, having large, solitary, white-spotted, purple flowers.
- callisthenics — light exercises designed to promote general fitness, develop muscle tone, etc
- camel cricket — cave cricket.
- campus police — police officers, security guards or students employed by a college or university to patrol the campus and to protect students, staff, and visitors
- canaliculated — Canaliculate.
- candlewicking — a kind of embroidery used for a bedspread, tablecloth, or pillow cover, patterned with French knots of candlewick embroidery thread or yarn
- cannibalistic — Cannibalistic people and practices are connected with cannibalism.
- canonical age — the age specified by canon law when a person becomes eligible to participate in a certain rite or hold a certain office.
- caprification — a method of pollinating the edible fig by hanging branches of caprifig flowers in edible fig trees. Parasitic wasps in the caprifig flowers transfer pollen to the edible fig flowers
- caprylic acid — a fatty acid, (CH3)(CH2)6COOH, with a rancid taste: used in the synthesis of dyes, drugs, perfumes, etc.
- capsaicinoids — Plural form of capsaicinoid.
- carbamic acid — hypothetical compound known only in carbamate salts
- carbenicillin — a semisynthetic penicillin, C 17 H 16 N 2 Na 2 O 6 S, used against certain bacteria, especially those involved in urinary tract infections.
- carbolic acid — Carbolic acid or carbolic is a liquid that is used as a disinfectant and antiseptic.
- carbolic soap — a disinfectant soap containing phenol
- carbolic-acid — Also called carbolic acid, hydroxybenzene, oxybenzene, phenylic acid. a white, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous mass, C 6 H 5 OH, obtained from coal tar, or a hydroxyl derivative of benzene: used chiefly as a disinfectant, as an antiseptic, and in organic synthesis.
- carbonic acid — a weak acid formed when carbon dioxide combines with water: obtained only in aqueous solutions, never in the pure state. Formula: H2CO3
- cardiographic — (physiology) Of or pertaining to, or produced by, a cardiograph.
- cardiological — the study of the heart and its functions in health and disease.
- cariogenicity — conducive to the production or promotion of dental caries: the cariogenic factors in sweets.
- carnification — the conversion of tissue into flesh or a fleshlike substance, as of lung tissue into fibrous tissue as a result of pneumonia.
- carol service — a service, held in a church around Christmas, at which Christmas carols are sung
- carrickfergus — a town in E Northern Ireland, in Carrickfergus district, Co Antrim; historic settlement of Scottish Protestants on Belfast Lough; Norman castle. Pop: 27 201 (2001)
- carve a niche — If you carve a niche for yourself, you organize your work to create a secure position.
- catabolically — In terms of catabolism.
- catalytically — Chemistry. the causing or accelerating of a chemical change by the addition of a catalyst.
- catatonically — in a catatonic or exceedingly rigid manner
- catechistical — Pertaining to a catechism.
- categorematic — (of a word) able to stand alone as a term or subject
- categorically — without exceptions or conditions; absolute; unqualified and unconditional: a categorical denial.
- cathartically — of or relating to catharsis.
- caustic curve — a curve formed by the intersection of a caustic surface with a plane
- cavernicolous — inhabiting caves or cavelike places
- ceiling price — the top price
- centricalness — the situation or quality of being centrical
- cephalometric — Relating to cephalometrics.
- ceramic oxide — a compound of oxygen with nonorganic material: recently discovered to act as a high-temperature superconductor
- certification — a document attesting the truth of a fact or statement
- certificatory — Serving to certify something.
- cerumenolytic — (pharmacology) A chemical that softens or removes cerumen (earwax).
- cervicography — a method of cervical screening in which the neck of the uterus is photographed to facilitate the early detection of cancer
- chalicotheres — Plural form of chalicothere.
- chamber music — Chamber music is classical music written for a small number of instruments.
- chapman stick — an electronically amplified musical instrument with ten or twelve strings and a fretted neck, which is played by striking the strings against the frets with the fingers