9-letter words containing a, l, s
- cartelism — the practice of forming cartels
- cartelist — a member of a cartel, or a supporter of cartelism
- cartloads — Plural form of cartload.
- caruncles — Plural form of caruncle.
- case file — a file kept on a person who is involved in a medical, legal, or social work investigation
- caseloads — Plural form of caseload.
- cash flow — The cash flow of a firm or business is the movement of money into and out of it.
- cash plan — A cash plan is money paid towards the insured’s optical or dental costs, and also admission to a hospital.
- cash sale — a transaction that specifies that securities must be delivered to the buyer on the day that the purchase is made
- casserole — A casserole is a dish made of meat and vegetables that have been cooked slowly in a liquid.
- cassingle — a cassette single
- 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.