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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 2 words with the pattern -RCTI--. That is, seven letter words with 2nd letter R and 3rd letter C and 4th letter T and 5th letter I. In alphabetical order, they are:

arctics

arctiid

According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 1 words with the pattern -RCTI---. That is, eight letter words with 2nd letter R and 3rd letter C and 4th letter T and 5th letter I. In alphabetical order, they are:

arctiids

* August 7 - U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia. * August 7 - Federal Express purchased Flying Tiger Line for an amount circa 800 million USD * August 8 - STS-28: Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret 5-day military mission. * August 9 The asteroid 4769 Castalia is the first asteroid directly imaged by radar from Arecibo. * August 12 Julianne Madsen was born * August 13 - A hot air balloon accident near Alice Springs, Australia kills 13. * August 14 - The Sega Genesis is released in North America. * August 18 - Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galán is assassinated near Bogotá in Colombia. * August 19 - Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be Prime Minister, the first non-communist in power in 42 years. * August 20 - In Beverly Hills, California, Lyle and Erik Menendez shoot their wealthy parents to death in the family's den. * August 20 - Fifty-one people die when the Marchioness pleasure boat collides with a barge on the River Thames adjacent to Southwark Bridge. * August 23 - Two million indigenous people of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, then still occupied by the Soviet Union, join hands to demand freedom and independence, forming an uninterrupted 600 km human chain called the Baltic Way. * August 23 - Hungary removes border restrictions with Austria. * August 23 - All of Australia's 1,645 domestic airline pilots resign over an airline's move to sack and sue them over a dispute. * August 23 - Yusef Hawkins is shot in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, New York, sparking racial tensions between African Americans and Italian Americans. * August 24 - Record-setting baseball player Pete Rose agrees to a lifetime ban from the sport following allegations of illegal gambling, thereby preventing his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame. * August 24 - Indonesia's first privately owned television station, Rajawali Citra Televisi Indonesia, (RCTI) begins broadcasting. * August 25 - Voyager II passes the planet Neptune and its moon Triton.

Inevitably, lots of things happened in Australia in 1997, as they did in all countries.

A major event in 1997 for Australia was the Thredbo landslide disaster.

On 30 July 1997, the Alpine Way above the ski resort town of Thredbo, in the Snowy Mountains, gave way, as a result of torrential rain on an essentially landfill-raised road. This caused tonnes of mud and water to rush down the mountainside, crushing Carinya Lodge, which then pushed down the Bimbadeen Lodge, killing 18 staff.

The reason this was such a major event in Australia was that, three days after the collapse of the lodges, one lone skiing instructor by the name of Stuart Diver was pulled out alive, suffering severe hypothermia. He had been trapped next to the body of his dead wife for three days.