8-letter words containing si
- insiders — Plural form of insider.
- insights — Plural form of insight.
- insignia — singular of insignia.
- insignis — The Monterey pine.
- insisted — to be emphatic, firm, or resolute on some matter of desire, demand, intention, etc.: He insists on checking every shipment.
- insition — The insertion of a scion in a stock; engraftment.
- intarsia — an art or technique of decorating a surface with inlaid patterns, especially of wood mosaic, developed during the Renaissance.
- invasion — an act or instance of invading or entering as an enemy, especially by an army.
- invasive — characterized by or involving invasion; offensive: invasive war.
- iodopsin — a photosensitive violet pigment that occurs in the cones of the retina and is transformed by light into retinal and an opsin protein.
- ionising — (British) alternative spelling of ionizing.
- ironside — ("Ironside") a.d. c980–1016, English king 1016: defeated by Canute.
- irrision — (obsolete) The act of laughing at another; derision.
- isidioid — of, relating to, or resembling an isidium.
- jalousie — a blind or shutter made with horizontal slats that can be adjusted to admit light and air but exclude rain and the rays of the sun.
- jamesian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the novelist Henry James or his writings.
- jarosite — a yellowish or brownish mineral, a hydrous sulfate of potassium and iron, KFe 3 (SO 4) 2 (OH) 6 , occurring in small crystals or large masses.
- jebusite — a member of an ancient Canaanite people that lived in Jebus.
- jocosity — the state or quality of being jocose.
- jonesing — Present participle of jones.
- jurassic — noting or pertaining to a period of the Mesozoic Epoch, occurring from 190 to 140 million years ago and characterized by an abundance of dinosaurs and the advent of birds and mammals.
- kerbside — a side of a pavement or street bordered by a curb.
- kerosine — Alternative spelling of kerosene.
- khalasis — Plural form of khalasi.
- kinesics — the study of body movements, gestures, facial expressions, etc., as a means of communication.
- kingside — the side of the board on which the king is positioned at the start of the game, left for black and right for white.
- kissings — Plural form of kissing.
- kneesies — play kneesies, Informal. to rub knees with another person, especially surreptitiously and in an amorous or sexually provocative manner, as while seated at a table.
- kosinski — Jerzy [jur-zee,, yezh-ee] /ˈdʒɜr zi,, ˈyɛʒ i/ (Show IPA), 1933–91, U.S. novelist, born in Poland.
- kurtosis — the state or quality of flatness or peakedness of the curve describing a frequency distribution in the region about its mode.
- kyllosis — club foot
- kyphosis — an abnormal, convex curvature of the spine, with a resultant bulge at the upper back.
- lachesis — the Fate who determines the length of the thread of life.
- lakeside — located on the side of a lake: a lakeside resort.
- landside — the part of a plow consisting of a sidepiece opposite the moldboard, for guiding the plow and resisting the side pressure caused by the turning of the furrow.
- lanosity — lanate.
- lap-size — of a size to fit the lap: a lap-size chessboard.
- lapsible — liable to lapse.
- laurasia — a hypothetical landmass in the Northern Hemisphere near the end of the Paleozoic Era: split apart to form North America and Eurasia.
- leasings — Plural form of leasing.
- lensings — Plural form of lensing.
- lesioned — an injury; hurt; wound.
- leucosin — an albumin occurring in some cereal grains, such as wheat
- leucosis — any of several diseases occurring chiefly in chickens, involving proliferation of the leukocytes and characterized by paralysis, blindness, formation of tumors in the internal organs, and bone calcification.
- leukosis — any of several diseases occurring chiefly in chickens, involving proliferation of the leukocytes and characterized by paralysis, blindness, formation of tumors in the internal organs, and bone calcification.
- lewisite — a pale yellow, odorless compound, C 2 H 2 AsCl 3 , used as a blister gas in World War I.
- liaising — to form a liaison.
- limousin — a former province in central France.
- lineside — Alongside a railway line.
- loaiasis — loiasis.