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9-letter words containing c, a, u

  • castoreum — the oil secreted from the beaver which is used as bait by trappers
  • 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.
  • casuarina — any tree of the genus Casuarina, of Australia and the East Indies, having jointed leafless branchlets: family Casuarinaceae
  • 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.
  • caucasian — A Caucasian person is a white person.
  • caucasoid — denoting, relating to, or belonging to the lighter-complexioned supposed racial group of mankind, which includes the peoples indigenous to Europe, N Africa, SW Asia, and the Indian subcontinent and their descendants in other parts of the world
  • cauchemar — a nightmare
  • caucusing — Present participle of caucus.
  • caudiform — (zoology) Resembling a tail.
  • caudillos — Plural form of caudillo.
  • cauldrife — susceptible to cold; chilly
  • cauldrons — Plural form of cauldron.
  • caulfield — Patrick (Joseph). 1936–2005, British painter and printmaker
  • cauliculi — plural form of singular cauliculus: another word for caulicle
  • cauliform — resembling or similar to a caulis
  • cauquenes — a city in central Chile.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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?
  • causeries — Plural form of causerie.
  • causeways — Plural form of causeway.
  • 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
  • cavaedium — atrium (def 1a).
  • cavernous — A cavernous room or building is very large inside, and so it reminds you of a cave.
  • cavillous — Characterized by caviling, or disposed to cavil; quibbling.
  • ceanothus — any shrub of the North American rhamnaceous genus Ceanothus: grown for their ornamental, often blue, flower clusters
  • ceausescu — Nicolae (ˌnɪkɒˈlaɪ). 1918–89, Romanian statesman; chairman of the state council (1967–89) and president of Romania (1974–89): deposed and executed
  • cellarous — of, relating to or resembling a cellar
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