9-letter words containing c, l, a, s, b
- cableways — Plural form of cableway.
- calabogus — a mixed drink containing rum, spruce beer, and molasses
- calaboose — a prison; jail
- calabrese — a variety of green sprouting broccoli
- callbacks — Plural form of callback.
- cannibals — Plural form of cannibal.
- carbolise — phenolate (def 2).
- 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)
- celibates — Plural form of celibate.
- chaseable — to pursue in order to seize, overtake, etc.: The police officer chased the thief.
- chasubles — Plural form of chasuble.
- choosable — to select from a number of possibilities; pick by preference: She chose Sunday for her departure.
- cimbaloms — Plural form of cimbalom.
- clambakes — Plural form of clambake.
- classbook — a book kept by a teacher recording student attendance, grades, etc.
- classible — able to be classed
- clawbacks — Plural form of clawback.
- closeable — able to be closed
- club soda — Club soda is fizzy water used for mixing with alcoholic drinks and fruit juice.
- club sofa — a heavily upholstered sofa having solid sides and a low back.
- clubfaces — Plural form of clubface.
- clubhands — Plural form of clubhand.
- clubmates — Plural form of clubmate.
- cobaltous — of or containing cobalt in the divalent state
- colobomas — Plural form of coloboma.
- constable — In Britain and some other countries, a constable is a police officer of the lowest rank.
- coolibahs — Plural form of coolibah.
- cornballs — Plural form of cornball.
- cristobal — seaport in Panama, at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal: part of the city of Colón
- crossable — able to be crossed
- crushable — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
- cymbalist — A musician who plays the cymbals.
- ectoblast — the ectoderm.
- escapable — Able to be escaped or run from.
- excisable — Liable or subject to excise.
- excusable — Able to be justified or forgiven; forgivable.
- excusably — In an excusable manner or to an excusable degree.
- fallbacks — Plural form of fallback.
- flashback — a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
- flashcube — a cube, for attaching to a camera, that contains a flashbulb in each vertical side and rotates automatically for taking four flash pictures in succession.
- focusable — Capable of being focused.
- fullbacks — Plural form of fullback.
- gas black — finely powdered carbon produced by burning natural gas. It is used as a pigment in paints, etc
- halfbacks — Plural form of halfback.
- holdbacks — Plural form of holdback.
- irascible — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
- irascibly — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
- lambrusco — a semisweet, lightly effervescent red wine from Italy.
- leaseback — the disposal of a building, land, or other property to a buyer under special arrangements for simultaneously leasing it on a long-term basis to the original seller, usually with an option to renew the lease.
- local bus — (hardware) A bus connecting a processor to memory, usually on the same circuit board as opposed to a backplane and therefore faster. Various proprietary local busses for personal computers are still in use. The most common are Vesa local bus (VLB or VL), and Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI). Some computers, e.g. notebook computers, use a local bus with no expansion slots. Previous non-local bus standards include ISA, EISA and MCA.