9-letter words containing s, c, i
- careerist — Careerist people are ambitious and think that their career is more important than anything else.
- caressing — an act or gesture expressing affection, as an embrace or kiss, especially a light stroking or touching.
- caressive — resembling a caress or tending to caress
- carillons — Plural form of carillon.
- cariosity — (medicine) caries.
- carnalise — sensualise
- carnalism — the quality or state of being sensual
- carnifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of carnify.
- carnivals — Plural form of carnival.
- carnosity — an abnormal fleshy protrusion growing on any part of the body
- carousing — to engage in a drunken revel: They caroused all night.
- carriages — Plural form of carriage.
- cartelism — the practice of forming cartels
- cartelist — a member of a cartel, or a supporter of cartelism
- cartesian — of or relating to the works of René Descartes
- carveries — Plural form of carvery.
- caryatids — Plural form of caryatid.
- caryopsis — a dry seedlike fruit having the pericarp fused to the seed coat of the single seed: produced by the grasses
- cascading — Present participle of cascade.
- case file — a file kept on a person who is involved in a medical, legal, or social work investigation
- caseation — the formation of cheese from casein during the coagulation of milk
- caseinate — a salt of casein
- cashiered — to dismiss (a military officer) from service, especially with disgrace.
- cashierer — a person who rejects or dismisses from office
- cashpoint — A cashpoint is the same as a cash dispenser.
- cassation — (esp in France) annulment, as of a judicial decision by a higher court
- cassimere — a woollen suiting cloth of plain or twill weave
- cassingle — a cassette single
- 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.
- castering — a person or thing that casts.
- castigate — If you castigate someone or something, you speak to them angrily or criticize them severely.
- castilian — the Spanish dialect of Castile; the standard form of European Spanish
- 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
- 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.
- catabasis — a descent or downward movement
- catalexis — the state of lacking a syllable in the last foot of a line of poetry
- catalysis — Catalysis is the speeding up of a chemical reaction by adding a catalyst to it.
- catamites — Plural form of catamite.
- catchiest — Superlative form of catchy.
- catechise — to instruct orally by means of questions and answers, especially in Christian doctrine.
- catechism — In a Catholic, Episcopal, or Orthodox Church, the catechism is a series of questions and answers about religious beliefs, which has to be learned by people before they can become full members of that Church.
- catechist — a person who catechizes, esp. one who instructs catechumens
- catfights — Plural form of catfight.