9-letter words containing a, c, l, s
- cassoulet — a stew originating from France, made from haricot beans and goose, duck, pork, etc
- casteless — having no caste
- castellan — a keeper or governor of a castle
- castellón — seaport in E Spain, on the Mediterranean: pop. 133,000
- castellum — a small fort, normally used as a watch tower
- castilian — the Spanish dialect of Castile; the standard form of European Spanish
- 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)
- casualise — make (a regular employee) into a casual worker
- casualism — the doctrine that the existence and occurrence of everything is controlled by chance
- casualize — If a business casualizes its employees or casualizes their labour, it replaces employees with permanent contracts and full rights with employees with temporary contracts and few rights.
- cataclasm — a breaking down or disruption
- cataclysm — A cataclysm is an event that causes great change or harm.
- catalepsy — a state of prolonged rigid posture, occurring for example in schizophrenia or in hypnotic trances
- catalexis — the state of lacking a syllable in the last foot of a line of poetry
- catalysed — to act upon by catalysis.
- catalyser — Alternative form of catalyzer.
- catalyses — Chemistry. the causing or accelerating of a chemical change by the addition of a catalyst.
- catalysis — Catalysis is the speeding up of a chemical reaction by adding a catalyst to it.
- catalysts — Plural form of catalyst.
- catalyzes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of catalyze.
- cataplasm — a poultice, often medicated
- catapults — Plural form of catapult.
- catchalls — Plural form of catchall.
- catholics — Plural form of Catholic.
- cattishly — In a cattish manner.
- cattleyas — Plural form of cattleya.
- caudillos — Plural form of caudillo.
- cauldrons — Plural form of cauldron.
- causalgia — a burning sensation along the course of a peripheral nerve together with local changes in the appearance of the skin
- causalgic — relating to pain of the nerves
- causality — Causality is the relationship of cause and effect.
- causeless — 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?
- cautelous — crafty or cunning
- cavaliers — Plural form of cavalier.
- cavalries — Plural form of cavalry.
- cavillous — Characterized by caviling, or disposed to cavil; quibbling.
- ceaseless — If something, often something unpleasant, is ceaseless, it continues for a long time without stopping or changing.
- celestial — of or in the sky or universe, as planets or stars
- celibates — Plural form of celibate.
- cellarers — Plural form of cellarer.
- cellarous — of, relating to or resembling a cellar
- cellmates — Plural form of cellmate.
- cellulase — any enzyme that converts cellulose to the disaccharide cellobiose
- censorial — an official who examines books, plays, news reports, motion pictures, radio and television programs, letters, cablegrams, etc., for the purpose of suppressing parts deemed objectionable on moral, political, military, or other grounds.
- cephalins — Plural form of cephalin.
- cephalous — having a head
- cerealist — a person who studies cereals and the conditions for their growth
- chainless — having no chain or chains
- chalkpits — Plural form of chalkpit.
- chandlers — Plural form of chandler.