9-letter words containing a, c, t, e, s
- chanteuse — a female singer, esp in a nightclub or cabaret
- chantress — a female chanter or singer
- chantries — Plural form of chantry.
- chapiters — Plural form of chapiter.
- charities — Plural form of charity.
- charoseth — haroseth.
- charteris — Leslie, original name Leslie Charles Bowyer Yin. 1907–93, British novelist, born in Singapore: created the character Simon Templar, known as The Saint, the central character in many adventure novels
- chartless — not mapped; uncharted
- chaseport — a porthole through which a gun was fired
- chassepot — a breech-loading bolt-action rifle formerly used by the French Army
- chastened — subdued; humbled
- chastener — to inflict suffering upon for purposes of moral improvement; chastise.
- chastised — to discipline, especially by corporal punishment.
- chastiser — Someone who chastises.
- chastises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chastise.
- chastized — Simple past tense and past participle of chastize.
- chatlines — Plural form of chatline.
- chattiest — Superlative form of chatty.
- chautemps — Camille [ka-mee-yuh] /kaˈmi yə/ (Show IPA), 1885–1963, French politician: premier 1930, 1933–34, 1937–38.
- cheesevat — (in cheese making) a vat in which curds are formed and cut
- chelators — Plural form of chelator.
- chemostat — an apparatus for growing bacterial cultures at a constant rate by controlling the supply of nutrient medium
- chitinase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that hydrolyzes chitin.
- chlorates — Plural form of chlorate.
- chopsteak — chopped steak.
- chordates — belonging or pertaining to the phylum Chordata, comprising the true vertebrates and those animals having a notochord, as the lancelets and tunicates.
- chromates — Plural form of chromate.
- cicatrise — (transitive) To heal a wound through scarring (by causing a scar or cicatrix to form).
- cineastes — Plural form of cineaste.
- cisternae — Plural form of cisterna.
- cityscape — an urban landscape; view of a city
- civitates — the body of citizens who constitute a state, especially a city-state, commonwealth, or the like.
- clarinets — Plural form of clarinet.
- clarities — clearness or lucidity as to perception or understanding; freedom from indistinctness or ambiguity.
- classiest — Superlative form of classy.
- classmate — Your classmates are students who are in the same class as you at school or college.
- classtime — The time devoted to or prepared for a lesson at school or elsewhere; schooltime.
- claystone — a compact very fine-grained rock consisting of consolidated clay particles
- cleanthes — ?300–?232 bc, Greek philosopher: succeeded Zeno as head of the Stoic school
- climatise — in Australia, adapt or become accustomed to a new climate or environment
- clubmates — Plural form of clubmate.
- coastline — A country's coastline is the outline of its coast.
- coastwise — along the coast
- coatdress — a coatlike dress having a buttoned front and, usually, lapels and long sleeves
- coelostat — an astronomical instrument consisting of a plane mirror mounted parallel to the earth's axis and rotated about this axis once every two days so that light from a celestial body, esp the sun, is reflected onto a second mirror, which reflects the beam into a telescope
- cogitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cogitate.
- cohobates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cohobate.
- combaters — Plural form of combater.
- compleats — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compleat.
- conestoga — a large, heavy, broad-wheeled covered wagon, used especially for transporting pioneers and freight across North America during the early westward migration.