9-letter words containing c, s, t, o
- cassation — (esp in France) annulment, as of a judicial decision by a higher court
- cassoulet — a stew originating from France, made from haricot beans and goose, duck, pork, etc
- cast down — If someone is cast down by something, they are sad or worried because of it.
- cast iron — Cast iron is iron which contains a small amount of carbon. It is hard and cannot be bent so it has to be made into objects by casting.
- cast-iron — made of cast iron.
- castellón — seaport in E Spain, on the Mediterranean: pop. 133,000
- castoreum — the oil secreted from the beaver which is used as bait by trappers
- 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
- catacombs — an underground burial place, esp the galleries at Rome, consisting of tunnels with vaults or niches leading off them for tombs
- catholics — Plural form of Catholic.
- cathouses — Plural form of cathouse.
- causation — The causation of something, usually something bad, is the factors that have caused it.
- cautelous — crafty or cunning
- caveators — a person who files or enters a caveat.
- ceanothus — any shrub of the North American rhamnaceous genus Ceanothus: grown for their ornamental, often blue, flower clusters
- cecostomy — Alternative spelling of caecostomy.
- cenobites — Plural form of cenobite.
- cenotaphs — Plural form of cenotaph.
- centesimo — a former monetary unit of Italy, San Marino, and the Vatican City worth one hundredth of a lira
- centroids — Plural form of centroid.
- cents-off — of or relating to a marketing device, as a coupon, that entitles a buyer to a specified amount off the regular price.
- ceratodus — any of various extinct lungfish constituting the genus Ceratodus, common in Cretaceous and Triassic times
- certosina — a technique of inlaying light-colored material, as bone, ivory, metal, or pale wood, in elaborate designs on a dark ground.
- cespitose — growing in dense, matlike clumps without creeping stems, as moss, grass, etc.
- cespitous — Turfy; resembling turf.
- cessation — The cessation of something is the stopping of it.
- cetaceous — Relating to whales or more generally to any marine mammal of the order Cetacea.
- cetshwayo — ?1826–84, king of the Zulus (1873–79): defeated the British at Isandhlwana (1879) but was overwhelmed by them at Ulundi (1879); captured, he stated his case in London, and was reinstated as ruler of part of Zululand (1883)
- chamosite — a mineral of the chlorite group, hydrous aluminum silicate of iron, occurring in gray or black crystals in oolitic iron ore.
- charoseth — haroseth.
- chaseport — a porthole through which a gun was fired
- chassepot — a breech-loading bolt-action rifle formerly used by the French Army
- chat show — A chat show is a television or radio show in which people talk in a friendly, informal way about different topics.
- chatrooms — Plural form of chatroom.
- checkouts — Plural form of checkout.
- chelators — Plural form of chelator.
- chemostat — an apparatus for growing bacterial cultures at a constant rate by controlling the supply of nutrient medium
- chip shot — a short approach shot to the green, esp one that is lofted
- chipotles — Plural form of chipotle.
- chitinous — a nitrogen-containing polysaccharide, related chemically to cellulose, that forms a semitransparent horny substance and is a principal constituent of the exoskeleton, or outer covering, of insects, crustaceans, and arachnids.
- chlorates — Plural form of chlorate.
- chlorites — Plural form of chlorite.
- cholecyst — the gallbladder
- chopsteak — chopped steak.
- chopstick — Chopsticks are a pair of thin sticks which people in China and the Far East use to eat their food.
- choralist — a person who sings in a chorus or ensemble
- chordates — belonging or pertaining to the phylum Chordata, comprising the true vertebrates and those animals having a notochord, as the lancelets and tunicates.
- chorister — A chorister is a singer in a church choir.