8-letter words that end in cs
- melodics — the branch of musical science concerned with the pitch and succession of tones.
- memetics — (philosophy) /me-met'iks/ The study of memes. As of mid-1993, this is still an extremely informal and speculative endeavor, though the first steps toward at least statistical rigor have been made by H. Keith Henson and others. Memetics is a popular topic for speculation among hackers, who like to see themselves as the architects of the new information ecologies in which memes live and replicate.
- mimetics — Plural form of mimetic.
- molluscs — any invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically having a calcareous shell of one, two, or more pieces that wholly or partly enclose the soft, unsegmented body, including the chitons, snails, bivalves, squids, and octopuses.
- muntjacs — Plural form of muntjac.
- numerics — The field of numerically-controlled engineering.
- organics — Plural form of organic.
- plastics — made of plastic.
- polemics — a controversial argument, as one against some opinion, doctrine, etc.
- politics — the science or art of political government.
- psionics — the study of the practical use of psychic powers
- quadrics — Plural form of quadric.
- quantics — Plural form of quantic.
- quintics — Plural form of quintic.
- robotics — the use of computer-controlled robots to perform manual tasks, especially on an assembly line.
- semitics — a subfamily of Afroasiatic languages that includes Akkadian, Arabic, Aramaic, Ethiopic, Hebrew, and Phoenician.
- spherics — Also, sferics. (used with a singular verb) a branch of meteorology in which electronic devices are used to forecast the weather and to study atmospheric conditions.
- technics — technique.
- tonetics — the phonetic study of tone in language.
- vocalics — the non-verbal aspects of voice creation
- zetetics — A historical branch of algebra concerned with the direct search for unknown quantities.