9-letter words containing s, a, b, c
- 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
- bushwhack — to ambush
- 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.
- cabassous — Plural form of cabassou.
- cabbalism — cabala.
- cabbalist — cabala.
- cabernets — Plural form of cabernet.
- cablecast — the transmission of a TV programme via a cable system
- cableways — Plural form of cableway.
- cabochons — Plural form of cabochon.
- cabstands — Plural form of cabstand.
- cagebirds — Plural form of cagebird.
- 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.
- capybaras — Plural form of capybara.
- carbolise — phenolate (def 2).
- carbonise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of carbonize.
- carbonous — of, containing, or derived from carbon.
- casco bay — bay on the SW coast of Maine, on which Portland is located
- casebooks — Plural form of casebook.
- casebound — bound in hard covers.
- cash-book — a journal in which all cash or cheque receipts and disbursements are recorded
- cashbooks — Plural form of cashbook.
- 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.
- chamberys — a city in and the capital of Savoie, in SE France.
- chapbooks — Plural form of chapbook.
- charybdis — a ship-devouring monster in classical mythology, identified with a whirlpool off the north coast of Sicily, lying opposite Scylla on the Italian coast
- 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.
- choriambs — Plural form of choriamb.
- 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.