9-letter words starting with ci
- cirrhosis — Cirrhosis or cirrhosis of the liver is a disease which destroys a person's liver and which can kill them. It is often caused by drinking too much alcohol.
- cirrhotic — a disease of the liver characterized by increase of connective tissue and alteration in gross and microscopic makeup.
- cirriform — cirrus-like
- cirripede — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, including the barnacles, the adults of which are sessile or parasitic
- cirripeds — Plural form of cirriped.
- cis woman — an adult who was born female and whose gender identity is female.
- cisalpine — on this (the southern) side of the Alps, as viewed from Rome
- cisgender — of or relating to a person whose gender identity corresponds to their assigned birth gender
- cispadane — on this (the southern) side of the River Po, as viewed from Rome
- cisplatin — a cytotoxic drug that acts by preventing DNA replication and hence cell division, used in the treatment of tumours, esp of the ovary and testis
- cissexual — noting or relating to a person who is comfortable with having the physical characteristics of that person’s biological sex.
- cissified — effeminate
- cisternae — Plural form of cisterna.
- cistronic — cistron-related
- citations — Plural form of citation.
- cithaeron — a mountain range in SE Greece: sacred to Dionysus, in Greek mythology. to 4623 feet (1409 meters).
- citharist — a player of the cithara
- citigrade — relating to (fast-moving) wolf spiders
- citizenly — Pertaining to citizens.
- citizenry — The people living in a country, state, or city can be referred to as the citizenry.
- city code — (in Britain) short for City Code on Takeovers and Mergers: a code laid down in 1968 (later modified) to control takeover bids and mergers
- city desk — the department of a newspaper office dealing with financial and commercial news
- city hall — The city hall is the building which a city council uses as its main offices.
- city plan — the developmental plan for a city or town arrived at through the process of city planning.
- city room — the room in which local news is handled for a newspaper, a radio or television station, or for another journalistic agency.
- city-born — born in a city.
- city-bred — reared in a city.
- cityscape — an urban landscape; view of a city
- civet cat — any of several nocturnal, catlike carnivores (family Viverridae) of Africa, India, Malaysia, and S China, with spotted, yellowish fur: valued for its civet (sense 1)
- civetlike — resembling a civet
- civically — of or relating to a city; municipal: civic problems.
- civil day — day (def 3c).
- civil law — Civil law is the part of a country's set of laws which is concerned with the private affairs of citizens, for example marriage and property ownership, rather than with crime.
- civil war — A civil war is a war which is fought between different groups of people who live in the same country.
- civilians — Plural form of civilian.
- civilised — to bring out of a savage, uneducated, or rude state; make civil; elevate in social and private life; enlighten; refine: Rome civilized the barbarians.
- civiliser — Alternative form of civilizer.
- civilises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of civilise.
- civilized — If you describe a society as civilized, you mean that it is advanced and has sensible laws and customs.
- civilizer — to bring out of a savage, uneducated, or rude state; make civil; elevate in social and private life; enlighten; refine: Rome civilized the barbarians.
- civilizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of civilize.
- civilness — of, relating to, or consisting of citizens: civil life; civil society.
- civitates — the body of citizens who constitute a state, especially a city-state, commonwealth, or the like.