7-letter words containing n, i, s
- busying — actively and attentively engaged in work or a pastime: busy with her work.
- butlins — one of the two best-known traditional holiday camps in Britain
- byrnies — a coat of mail; hauberk.
- byssine — made from fine flax
- caimans — Plural form of caiman.
- cainism — the first son of Adam and Eve, who murdered his brother Abel. Gen. 4.
- caisson — a watertight chamber open at the bottom and containing air under pressure, used to carry out construction work under water
- callins — a program in which listeners or viewers phone in comments or questions to the host or a person being interviewed.
- candids — Plural form of candid.
- candies — Plural form of candy.
- canines — of or like a dog; relating to or characteristic of dogs: canine loyalty.
- canings — Plural form of caning.
- capsian — a late Palaeolithic culture, dating from about 12 000 bc, found mainly around the salt lakes of Tunisia. The culture is characterized by the presence of microliths, backed blades, and engraved limestone slabs
- carnies — Plural form of carny.
- cash in — If you say that someone cashes in on a situation, you are criticizing them for using it to gain an advantage, often in an unfair or dishonest way.
- cash-in — redemption, as of mutual-fund shares.
- cashing — money in the form of coins or banknotes, especially that issued by a government.
- casings — Plural form of casing.
- casinos — Plural form of casino.
- casking — a container made and shaped like a barrel, especially one larger and stronger, for holding liquids.
- caspian — of or relating to the Caspian Sea
- cassina — an evergreen shrub from the Southern US with dark leaves
- cassini — Giovanni Domenico. 1625–1712, French astronomer, born in Italy. He discovered (1675) Cassini's division, the gap that divides Saturn's rings into two parts, and four of Saturn's moons
- cassino — a card game for two to four players in which players pair cards from their hands with others exposed on the table
- casting — A casting is an object or piece of machinery which has been made by pouring a liquid such as hot metal into a container, so that when it hardens it has the required shape.
- cations — Plural form of cation.
- catkins — Plural form of catkin.
- catskin — the skin or fur of a cat
- causing — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- cawings — Plural form of cawing.
- ceasing — to stop; discontinue: Not all medieval beliefs have ceased to exist.
- cerasin — an insoluble amorphous gum from the cherry and other trees, known also as meta-arabinic acid
- ceresin — a white wax extracted from ozocerite
- cerosin — (organic compound) A waxy substance obtained from the bark of the sugar cane.
- cessing — British. a tax, assessment, or lien.
- cession — the act of ceding, esp of ceding rights, property, or territory
- chasing — the act of chasing; pursuit: The chase lasted a day.
- chinars — Plural form of chinar.
- chinese — Chinese means relating to or belonging to China, or its people, languages, or culture.
- chinois — A cone-shaped sieve with a closely woven mesh for straining sauces.
- chitons — Plural form of chiton.
- chunnis — Plural form of chunni.
- chusing — Present participle of chuse.
- cinches — Plural form of cinch.
- cinders — Cinders are the black pieces that are left after something such as wood or coal has burned away.
- cineast — An enthusiast of film and the cinema.
- cinemas — Plural form of cinema.
- cinques — Plural form of cinque.
- cis man — an adult who was born male and whose gender identity is male.
- cissing — the appearance of pinholes, craters, etc, in paintwork due to poor adhesion of the paint to the surface