9-letter words containing a, s, t, i, c
- 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.
- chiasmata — Anatomy. a crossing or decussation, as that of the optic nerves at the base of the brain.
- chinstrap — a strap that goes under the chin
- chishtiya — a Sufi order of the Indian subcontinent.
- chitchats — Plural form of chitchat.
- chitinase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that hydrolyzes chitin.
- choralist — a person who sings in a chorus or ensemble
- christian — A Christian is someone who follows the teachings of Jesus Christ.
- christina — 1626–89, queen of Sweden (1632–54), daughter of Gustavus Adolphus, noted particularly for her patronage of literature
- christmas — Christmas is a Christian festival when the birth of Jesus Christ is celebrated. Christmas is celebrated on the 25th of December.
- cicatrise — (transitive) To heal a wound through scarring (by causing a scar or cicatrix to form).
- cineastes — Plural form of cineaste.
- cisplatin — a cytotoxic drug that acts by preventing DNA replication and hence cell division, used in the treatment of tumours, esp of the ovary and testis
- cisternae — Plural form of cisterna.
- citations — Plural form of citation.
- citharist — a player of the cithara
- 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.
- cladistic — relating to the classification of species based on evolutionary ancestry
- clafoutis — a French baked pudding
- claimants — Plural form of claimant.
- clapstick — A kind of drumstick used by striking one against another, to maintain rhythm in Aboriginal voice chants.
- clarinets — Plural form of clarinet.
- clarities — clearness or lucidity as to perception or understanding; freedom from indistinctness or ambiguity.
- classiest — Superlative form of classy.
- classtime — The time devoted to or prepared for a lesson at school or elsewhere; schooltime.
- clianthus — any Australian or New Zealand plant of the leguminous genus Clianthus, with ornamental clusters of slender scarlet flowers
- climatise — in Australia, adapt or become accustomed to a new climate or environment
- clinostat — an apparatus for studying tropisms in plants, usually a rotating disc to which the plant is attached so that it receives an equal stimulus on all sides
- cloacitis — inflammation of the cloaca in birds, including domestic fowl, and other animals with a common opening of the urinary and gastrointestinal tracts
- cloistral — of, like, or characteristic of a cloister
- coastline — A country's coastline is the outline of its coast.
- coastwise — along the coast
- coattails — If you do something on the coattails of someone else, you are able to do it because of the other person's success, and not because of your own efforts.
- cocainist — a cocaine addict
- cocktails — Plural form of cocktail.
- cogitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cogitate.
- cognisant — a frequent misspelling of cognizant.
- collagist — a technique of composing a work of art by pasting on a single surface various materials not normally associated with one another, as newspaper clippings, parts of photographs, theater tickets, and fragments of an envelope.
- comitatus — a retinue of warriors serving a leader, esp in pre-Christian Germanic cultures, such as Anglo-Saxon England and Viking Age Scandinavia
- commatism — Conciseness in writing.
- conations — Plural form of conation.
- consortia — a combination of financial institutions, capitalists, etc., for carrying into effect some financial operation requiring large resources of capital.
- constrain — To constrain someone or something means to limit their development or force them to behave in a particular way.
- contrails — Plural form of contrail.