9-letter words containing a, t, s, b, c
- broadcast — A broadcast is a programme, performance, or speech on the radio or on television.
- bucharest — the capital of Romania, in the southeast. Pop: 1 764 000 (2005 est)
- buckstays — a beam held by stays to the exterior of a masonry wall, as that of a furnace or boiler, to keep the adjacent areas of the wall from being forced outward.
- bush coat — a belted, hip-length, shirtlike jacket, usually with four patch pockets and a notched collar, adapted from the hunting coat customarily worn in the African bush.
- bushcraft — ability and experience in matters concerned with living in the bush
- busticate — to break
- cab stand — A cab stand is a place where taxis wait for passengers, for example, at an airport or outside a station.
- cabbalist — cabala.
- cabernets — Plural form of cabernet.
- cablecast — the transmission of a TV programme via a cable system
- cabstands — Plural form of cabstand.
- cast back — to turn (the mind) to the past
- 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)
- catabasis — a descent or downward movement
- catacombs — an underground burial place, esp the galleries at Rome, consisting of tunnels with vaults or niches leading off them for tombs
- celibates — Plural form of celibate.
- chabasite — Alternative form of chabazite.
- clubmates — Plural form of clubmate.
- cobaltous — of or containing cobalt in the divalent state
- cockboats — Plural form of cockboat.
- cohobates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cohobate.
- combaters — Plural form of combater.
- constable — In Britain and some other countries, a constable is a police officer of the lowest rank.
- crabbiest — Superlative form of crabby.
- crabstick — a stick, cane, or cudgel made of crab-apple wood
- cristobal — seaport in Panama, at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal: part of the city of Colón
- crosstabs — Simple language for statistical analysis of tabular data. "User's Manual for the CROSSTABS System", Cambridge Computer Assoc (Feb 1977).
- cubatures — Plural form of cubature.
- cybercast — (Internet) A broadcast of audiovisual material over the Internet.
- cymbalist — A musician who plays the cymbals.
- diabetics — Plural form of diabetic.
- ectoblast — the ectoderm.
- emboscata — a sudden attack or raid
- fast buck — money made easily or quickly and sometimes unscrupulously: He speculated briefly in the commodities market in the hope of making a fast buck.
- fastbacks — Plural form of fastback.
- hecatombs — Plural form of hecatomb.
- incubates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incubate.
- isobathic — having the same depth.
- jackboots — Plural form of jackboot.
- jacobsite — a rare magnetic mineral, manganese iron oxide, MnFe 2 O 4 , similar to magnetite.
- obfuscate — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- obscurant — a person who strives to prevent the increase and spread of knowledge.
- obsecrate — to entreat solemnly; beseech; supplicate.
- obstacles — Plural form of obstacle.
- obstinacy — the quality or state of being obstinate; stubbornness.
- sauceboat — a low, boat-shaped container for serving sauce or gravy, typically having a handle at one end and a long, wide lip at the other end.
- scabietic — a contagious skin disease occurring especially in sheep and cattle and also in humans, caused by the itch mite, Sarcoptes scabiei, which burrows under the skin. Compare itch (def 10), mange.
- scrutable — capable of being understood by careful study or investigation.
- seat back — the part of a chair or seat that you rest your back against
- slat back — a chair back having two or more horizontal slats between upright posts.