8-letter words containing a, c, i, u
- aquacise — A type of physical exercise practiced in water mostly vertically and without swimming, typically in a swimming pool in waist deep or deeper water.
- aquatics — sports or pastimes performed in or on the water
- aquiesce — Misspelling of acquiesce.
- arcesius — a son of Zeus and Euryodia, father of Laertes, and grandfather of Odysseus.
- aruspicy — haruspicy.
- ascanius — the son of Aeneas and Creusa; founder of Alba Longa, mother city of Rome
- ascidium — part of a plant that is shaped like a pitcher, such as the modified leaf of the pitcher plant
- astucity — Craftiness; astuteness.
- asuncion — the capital and chief port of Paraguay, on the Paraguay River, 1530 km (950 miles) from the Atlantic. Pop: 1 750 000 (2005 est)
- auctions — Plural form of auction.
- audacity — Audacity is audacious behaviour.
- audience — The audience at a play, concert, film, or public meeting is the group of people watching or listening to it.
- auncient — Obsolete form of ancient.
- auricled — (botany) auriculate.
- auricles — Plural form of auricle.
- auricula — a widely cultivated alpine primrose, Primula auricula, with leaves shaped like a bear's ear
- aurignac — a village in S France: many prehistoric artifacts found in area.
- auspices — an augur of ancient Rome.
- autacoid — any natural internal secretion, esp one that exerts an effect similar to a drug
- autarkic — the condition of self-sufficiency, especially economic, as applied to a nation.
- autecism — the development of the entire life cycle of a parasitic fungus on a single host or group of hosts.
- autistic — An autistic person suffers from autism.
- autocide — suicide by crashing the vehicle one is driving.
- autocoid — Alternative form of autacoid.
- autopsic — relating to autopsy
- autoptic — relating to or belonging to personal observation
- avicular — of or relating to small birds
- bacchius — a metrical foot of one short syllable followed by two long ones (◡ – –)
- bacillus — A bacillus is any bacterium that has a long, thin shape.
- baculine — relating to flogging with a rod
- baculite — an extinct species of mollusc from the Late Cretaceous period, fossils of which have been found ranging from 7cm to 2m in length
- banausic — merely mechanical; materialistic; utilitarian
- bauxitic — consisting of, containing or resembling bauxite
- bicaudal — having two tails
- boudicca — died 62 ad, a queen of the Iceni, who led a revolt against Roman rule in Britain; after being defeated she poisoned herself
- brachium — the arm, esp the upper part
- brancusi — Constantin (konstanˈtin). 1876–1957, Romanian sculptor, noted for his streamlined abstractions of animal forms
- bucatini — pasta in the shape of long tubes
- bucktail — a fishing lure adorned with deer hair
- bucovina — Bukovina
- bucrania — (in classical architecture) an ornament, especially on a frieze, having the form of the skull of an ox.
- bulimiac — pertaining to, resembling, or affected by bulimia.
- caciques — Plural form of cacique.
- caducity — perishableness
- caesious — having a waxy bluish-grey coating
- caesuric — caesural
- cahuilla — a member of a North American Indian people of southern California.
- caladium — any of various tropical plants of the aroid genus Caladium, which are widely cultivated as potted plants for their colourful variegated foliage
- caliduct — a pipe or duct for conveying a heating medium, as hot air or steam.
- caligula — original name Gaius Caesar, son of Germanicus. 12–41 ad, Roman emperor (37–41), noted for his cruelty and tyranny; assassinated