9-letter words containing a, c, u, t
- capturing — Present participle of capture.
- caratacus — died ?54 ad, British chieftain: led an unsuccessful resistance against the Romans (43–50)
- carburate — carburet.
- carry out — If you carry out a threat, task, or instruction, you do it or act according to it.
- carry-out — food: take-away
- cartonful — As much as a carton will hold.
- cartouche — a carved or cast ornamental tablet or panel in the form of a scroll, sometimes having an inscription
- cartulary — a collection of charters or records, esp relating to the title to an estate or monastery
- carve out — to make or create (a career)
- carve-out — to cut (a solid material) so as to form something: to carve a piece of pine.
- cassoulet — a stew originating from France, made from haricot beans and goose, duck, pork, etc
- castellum — a small fort, normally used as a watch tower
- castoreum — the oil secreted from the beaver which is used as bait by trappers
- casuistic — of or having to do with casuistry or casuists
- casuistry — Casuistry is the use of clever arguments to persuade or trick people.
- cat-built — (of a sailing vessel) having a bluff bow and straight stern without a figurehead.
- catalogue — A catalogue is a list of things such as the goods you can buy from a particular company, the objects in a museum, or the books in a library.
- catamount — any of various medium-sized felines, such as the puma or lynx
- catapults — Plural form of catapult.
- catch out — To catch someone out means to cause them to make a mistake that reveals that they are lying about something, do not know something, or cannot do something.
- catch-ups — an effort to reach or pass a norm, especially after a period of delay: After the slowdown there was a catch-up in production.
- caterwaul — If a person or animal caterwauls, they make a loud, high, unpleasant noise like the noise that cats make when they fight.
- cathouses — Plural form of cathouse.
- causality — Causality is the relationship of cause and effect.
- causation — The causation of something, usually something bad, is the factors that have caused it.
- causative — Causative factors are ones which are responsible for causing something.
- cautelous — crafty or cunning
- cauterant — caustic; cauterizing
- cauteries — Plural form of cautery.
- cauterise — to burn with a hot iron, electric current, fire, or a caustic, especially for curative purposes; treat with a cautery.
- cauterism — the application of burning, searing, or cautery
- cauterize — If a doctor cauterizes a wound, he or she burns it with heat or with a chemical in order to close it up and prevent it from becoming infected.
- cautioned — alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness: Landslides ahead—proceed with caution.
- cautioner — A person who cautions.
- cautionry — the position or function of a surety, a person who protects and takes responsibility for another person
- ceanothus — any shrub of the North American rhamnaceous genus Ceanothus: grown for their ornamental, often blue, flower clusters
- cellulate — cellular.
- centaurea — any of a genus (Centaurea) of annual and perennial plants of the composite family, having egg-shaped flower heads, including the star thistles and the bachelor's buttons
- centauric — characterized by an integration of mind and body for consciousness above the ego-self
- 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
- centurial — of or relating to a Roman century
- cerastium — any of a genus of plants belonging to the family Caryophyllaceae
- ceratodus — any of various extinct lungfish constituting the genus Ceratodus, common in Cretaceous and Triassic times
- cetaceous — Relating to whales or more generally to any marine mammal of the order Cetacea.
- cetuximab — a monoclonal antibody used to treat cancer
- chalk out — to outline (a plan, scheme, etc); sketch
- chalutzim — halutz.
- chanteuse — a female singer, esp in a nightclub or cabaret
- chartreux — a breed of sturdy cat with short dense woolly fur
- chartulae — charta (def 2).