9-letter words containing a, b, s
- casco bay — bay on the SW coast of Maine, on which Portland is located
- casebooks — Plural form of casebook.
- casebound — bound in hard covers.
- cash-book — a journal in which all cash or cheque receipts and disbursements are recorded
- cashbooks — Plural form of cashbook.
- cast back — to turn (the mind) to the past
- castlebar — the county town of Co Mayo, Republic of Ireland; site of the battle (1798) between the French and British known as Castlebar Races. Pop: 11 371 (2002)
- catabasis — a descent or downward movement
- catacombs — an underground burial place, esp the galleries at Rome, consisting of tunnels with vaults or niches leading off them for tombs
- celibates — Plural form of celibate.
- chabasite — Alternative form of chabazite.
- chamberys — a city in and the capital of Savoie, in SE France.
- chapbooks — Plural form of chapbook.
- charybdis — a ship-devouring monster in classical mythology, identified with a whirlpool off the north coast of Sicily, lying opposite Scylla on the Italian coast
- chaseable — to pursue in order to seize, overtake, etc.: The police officer chased the thief.
- chasubles — Plural form of chasuble.
- choosable — to select from a number of possibilities; pick by preference: She chose Sunday for her departure.
- choriambs — Plural form of choriamb.
- cimbaloms — Plural form of cimbalom.
- clambakes — Plural form of clambake.
- classbook — a book kept by a teacher recording student attendance, grades, etc.
- classible — able to be classed
- clawbacks — Plural form of clawback.
- closeable — able to be closed
- club soda — Club soda is fizzy water used for mixing with alcoholic drinks and fruit juice.
- club sofa — a heavily upholstered sofa having solid sides and a low back.
- clubfaces — Plural form of clubface.
- clubhands — Plural form of clubhand.
- clubmates — Plural form of clubmate.
- cobaltous — of or containing cobalt in the divalent state
- cockboats — Plural form of cockboat.
- cohobates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cohobate.
- colobomas — Plural form of coloboma.
- combaters — Plural form of combater.
- comebacks — Plural form of comeback.
- constable — In Britain and some other countries, a constable is a police officer of the lowest rank.
- coolibahs — Plural form of coolibah.
- cornballs — Plural form of cornball.
- cornbrash — a type of limestone which produces good soil for growing corn
- crabbiest — Superlative form of crabby.
- crabgrass — an annual grass, Digitaria sanguinalis, common in cultivated and waste grounds and often occurring as a pest weed in lawns.
- crabstick — a stick, cane, or cudgel made of crab-apple wood
- cristobal — seaport in Panama, at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal: part of the city of Colón
- crossable — able to be crossed
- crossband — (in furniture) a layer of wood beneath, and with its grain at right angles to, the veneer
- crossbars — Plural form of crossbar.
- crossbeam — A crossbeam is a long, thick bar of wood, metal, or concrete that is placed between two walls or other structures, especially in order to support the roof of a building.
- crosstabs — Simple language for statistical analysis of tabular data. "User's Manual for the CROSSTABS System", Cambridge Computer Assoc (Feb 1977).
- crush bar — a bar at a theatre for serving drinks during the intervals of a play
- crushable — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.