9-letter words containing e, c, a, t
- chantress — a female chanter or singer
- chantries — Plural form of chantry.
- chapiters — Plural form of chapiter.
- chapleted — wearing a wreath or garland on the head
- chapter 7 — the statute regarding liquidation proceedings that empowers a court to appoint a trustee to operate a failing business to prevent further loss
- chapteral — of or pertaining to a chapter
- chaptered — a main division of a book, treatise, or the like, usually bearing a number or title.
- character — The character of a person or place consists of all the qualities they have that make them distinct from other people or places.
- charecter — Misspelling of character.
- charities — Plural form of charity.
- charleton — a male given name.
- charlotte — a baked dessert served hot or cold, commonly made with fruit and layers or a casing of bread or cake crumbs, sponge cake, etc
- charmante — Silk fabric with a crepe back.
- charoseth — haroseth.
- charrette — a final, intensive effort to finish a project, especially an architectural design project, before a deadline.
- chartable — a sheet exhibiting information in tabular form.
- chartered — Chartered is used to indicate that someone, such as an accountant or a surveyor, has formally qualified in their profession.
- charterer — a document, issued by a sovereign or state, outlining the conditions under which a corporation, colony, city, or other corporate body is organized, and defining its rights and privileges.
- charteris — Leslie, original name Leslie Charles Bowyer Yin. 1907–93, British novelist, born in Singapore: created the character Simon Templar, known as The Saint, the central character in many adventure novels
- chartless — not mapped; uncharted
- chartreux — a breed of sturdy cat with short dense woolly fur
- chartulae — charta (def 2).
- chartwell — a house near Westerham in Kent: home for 40 years of Sir Winston Churchill
- charvette — (Geordie, pejorative) A female charva.
- chaseport — a porthole through which a gun was fired
- chassepot — a breech-loading bolt-action rifle formerly used by the French Army
- chastened — subdued; humbled
- chastener — to inflict suffering upon for purposes of moral improvement; chastise.
- 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.
- chatelain — the keeper or governor of a castle
- chatlines — Plural form of chatline.
- chattered — to talk rapidly in a foolish or purposeless way; jabber.
- chatterer — A chatterer is the same as a chatterbox.
- chatterji — Bankim Chandra [buhng-kim chuhn-druh] /ˈbʌŋ kɪm ˈtʃʌn drə/ (Show IPA), 1838–94, Indian novelist in the Bengali language.
- chattiest — Superlative form of chatty.
- chautemps — Camille [ka-mee-yuh] /kaˈmi yə/ (Show IPA), 1885–1963, French politician: premier 1930, 1933–34, 1937–38.
- cheap out — to take the cheapest option; try to do something as cheaply as possible
- cheat day — a day in which a person goes off a dietary regimen: Today’s my cheat day, so I’m eating pizza and ice cream.
- checkmate — to thwart or render powerless
- cheesevat — (in cheese making) a vat in which curds are formed and cut
- chelating — Having the ability to undergo chelation.
- chelation — the process by which a chelate is formed
- chelators — Plural form of chelator.
- chemostat — an apparatus for growing bacterial cultures at a constant rate by controlling the supply of nutrient medium
- chemtrail — A contrail consisting of chemicals or biological agents deliberately sprayed at high altitudes, according to certain conspiracy theories.
- chennault — Claire Lee [klair] /klɛər/ (Show IPA), 1890–1958, U.S. Air Force general.
- cheralite — a rare monazite mineral consisting of thorium and calcium