words with ci sounding like sh:
cinema, medicine, discipline, conscience, genocide, licit, miscible, placid, racial, decide, fanciful, fascism, exercise
Commercial ( J.K.D.)
In English, the letters "ci" typically sound like "sh" when followed by an "i" or an "e." This pronunciation is common in words like "ocean" or "special."
Words with Ce that sound like Sh:oceansebaceouscretaceouscurvaceouscarbonaceous
Some examples of words that sound like "sh" are "sugar" and "sherbet." In the case of "tissue," the "ss" sound is pronounced differently than "sh" and does not have the same sound. "Pressure" also does not have the "sh" sound.
Some words that use the letters CI to make an SH sound are conscious, social, special, and official.
Mission, passion, pressure.
ci,ti,ch,sc According to George Bernard Shaw there are 13 spellings for the 'sh' sound. shoe sugar ocean issue nation schist pshaw suspicion nauseous conscious chaperone mansion fuchsia
The letters ch, ph, and sometimes s can make the same sound as sh.
It is USUALLY pronounced as an s, but not always. There's the -cious words, where it has the sound 'sh': delicious precious specious meretricious etc. (not to mention 'licorice') Similarly, there the 'sh' sound for -cial words like facial and special. Also there are words that have been adopted from other languages but kept a trace of their original pronunciation: Celtic, for example. There are some other pronuniciations for ce, such as cello (pronounced 'chello'), cembalo (chembalo, with a 'k' sound). In the words foci and loci (acceptable plurals of focus and locus) the c is pronounced like a 'k'. The letter 'c' also makes the 'k' sound in the word 'arcing.'
Slant-sh (like slant with the additional "sh" sound)
Special Facial Racial
Conscience
In hieroglyphics, the "sh" sound does not have an individual symbol. However, there are symbols for the "s" and "h" sounds separately, which can be combined to represent the "sh" sound in words.