9-letter words containing a, r, s
- 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)
- castoreum — the oil secreted from the beaver which is used as bait by trappers
- castrated — to remove the testes of; emasculate; geld.
- castrater — a person who castrates
- castrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of castrate.
- castrator — One who castrates (gelds or neuters).
- castroism — the philosophy and policies of Fidel Castro and his followers
- castroist — of or relating to the philosophy and policies of Fidel Castro and his followers
- casuarina — any tree of the genus Casuarina, of Australia and the East Indies, having jointed leafless branchlets: family Casuarinaceae
- casuistry — Casuistry is the use of clever arguments to persuade or trick people.
- cat's-ear — any of various European plants of the genus Hypochoeris, esp H. radicata, having dandelion-like heads of yellow flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
- catalyser — Alternative form of catalyzer.
- cataracts — Plural form of cataract.
- catharise — purify
- catharses — Plural form of catharsis.
- catharsis — Catharsis is getting rid of unhappy memories or strong emotions such as anger or sadness by expressing them in some way.
- catheters — Plural form of catheter.
- catteries — Plural form of cattery.
- cauldrons — Plural form of cauldron.
- causeries — Plural form of causerie.
- 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
- cavaliers — Plural form of cavalier.
- cavalries — Plural form of cavalry.
- caveators — a person who files or enters a caveat.
- cavernous — A cavernous room or building is very large inside, and so it reminds you of a cave.
- ceasefire — A ceasefire is an arrangement in which countries or groups of people that are fighting each other agree to stop fighting.
- cellarers — Plural form of cellarer.
- cellarous — of, relating to or resembling a cellar
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- chamberys — a city in and the capital of Savoie, in SE France.
- chamfrons — Plural form of chamfron.
- chancrous — (medicine) Of the nature of a chancre; affected by chancre.
- chandlers — Plural form of chandler.
- chantress — a female chanter or singer