9-letter words containing a, c, s
- cavatinas — Plural form of cavatina.
- caveators — a person who files or enters a caveat.
- cavendish — tobacco that has been sweetened and pressed into moulds to form bars
- cavernous — A cavernous room or building is very large inside, and so it reminds you of a cave.
- cavessons — Plural form of cavesson.
- cavillous — Characterized by caviling, or disposed to cavil; quibbling.
- cavitands — Plural form of cavitand.
- ceanothus — any shrub of the North American rhamnaceous genus Ceanothus: grown for their ornamental, often blue, flower clusters
- ceasefire — A ceasefire is an arrangement in which countries or groups of people that are fighting each other agree to stop fighting.
- ceaseless — If something, often something unpleasant, is ceaseless, it continues for a long time without stopping or changing.
- ceausescu — Nicolae (ˌnɪkɒˈlaɪ). 1918–89, Romanian statesman; chairman of the state council (1967–89) and president of Romania (1974–89): deposed and executed
- 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
- cenotaphs — Plural form of cenotaph.
- 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.
- censorian — relating to the official supervision of public behaviour and morals
- centaurus — a conspicuous extensive constellation in the S hemisphere, close to the Southern Cross, that contains two first magnitude stars, Alpha Centauri and Beta Centauri, and the globular cluster Omega Centauri
- cepaceous — having an onion-like smell or taste
- cephalins — Plural form of cephalin.
- cephalous — having a head
- ceraceous — waxlike or waxy
- ceramides — Plural form of ceramide.
- ceramists — Plural form of ceramist.
- cerastium — any of a genus of plants belonging to the family Caryophyllaceae
- ceratitis — Alternative spelling of keratitis.
- ceratodus — any of various extinct lungfish constituting the genus Ceratodus, common in Cretaceous and Triassic times
- cerealist — a person who studies cereals and the conditions for their growth
- certosina — a technique of inlaying light-colored material, as bone, ivory, metal, or pale wood, in elaborate designs on a dark ground.
- cervantes — Miguel de (miˈɣɛl ðe), full surname Cervantes Saavedra. 1547–1616, Spanish dramatist, poet, and prose writer, most famous for Don Quixote (1605), which satirizes the chivalric romances and greatly influenced the development of the novel
- cesareans — Plural form of cesarean.
- cessation — The cessation of something is the stopping of it.
- cessative — (of a verbal form or aspect) expressing cessation.
- cetaceans — Plural form of cetacean.
- cetaceous — Relating to whales or more generally to any marine mammal of the order Cetacea.
- cetshwayo — ?1826–84, king of the Zulus (1873–79): defeated the British at Isandhlwana (1879) but was overwhelmed by them at Ulundi (1879); captured, he stated his case in London, and was reinstated as ruler of part of Zululand (1883)
- chabasite — Alternative form of chabazite.
- chaconnes — Plural form of chaconne.
- chaffings — Plural form of chaffing.
- chain saw — A chain saw is a big saw with teeth fixed in a chain that is driven round by a motor.
- chain-saw — to cut or cut down (lumber, a tree, etc.) with a chain saw.
- chainless — having no chain or chains
- chainsaws — Plural form of chainsaw.
- chainsman — a person who stands in the chains to take soundings; leadsman.
- chairdays — old age, or the point in life when resting in a chair is the most comfortable way of passing time
- chairside — Relating to activities that happen next to the dental chair during treatment.
- chalkpits — Plural form of chalkpit.