8-Letter Words Containing: A,N,I,S,C

• the helmsman of a ship's boat or a racing crew

• a red transparent variety of zircon used as a gemstone

• the wife or widow of a czar

• Any of several small marine clams, of the species Donax variabilis, common in United States coastal waters.

• A soft form of limestone made of fragments of shells, sometimes used as a building or road paving material.

• a member of the radical movement that instituted the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution

• large flat-headed whalebone whale having deep furrows along the throat; of Atlantic and Pacific

• a homogeneous polynomial having at least two variables

• spin (usually of a moving ball) that retards or reverses the forward motion