9-letter words containing s, t, r, a
- cantharis — Spanish fly (sense 1)
- cantharus — a large two-handled pottery cup
- capturers — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- caratacus — died ?54 ad, British chieftain: led an unsuccessful resistance against the Romans (43–50)
- cardstock — paper stock stiff enough for the printing of business cards and similar uses.
- careerist — Careerist people are ambitious and think that their career is more important than anything else.
- cariosity — (medicine) caries.
- carnosity — an abnormal fleshy protrusion growing on any part of the body
- carotenes — Plural form of carotene.
- carothers — Wallace Hume1896-1937; U.S. chemist
- carrycots — Plural form of carrycot.
- carstensz — Mount Djaja Peak
- 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
- carthorse — A carthorse is a large, powerful horse that is used to pull carts or farm machinery.
- cartloads — Plural form of cartload.
- caryatids — Plural form of caryatid.
- 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.
- 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)
- castoreum — the oil secreted from the beaver which is used as bait by trappers
- castrated — to remove the testes of; emasculate; geld.
- castrater — a person who castrates
- castrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of castrate.
- 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
- casuistry — Casuistry is the use of clever arguments to persuade or trick people.
- cat's-ear — any of various European plants of the genus Hypochoeris, esp H. radicata, having dandelion-like heads of yellow flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
- catalyser — Alternative form of catalyzer.
- cataracts — Plural form of cataract.
- catharise — purify
- catharses — Plural form of catharsis.
- catharsis — Catharsis is getting rid of unhappy memories or strong emotions such as anger or sadness by expressing them in some way.
- catheters — Plural form of catheter.
- catteries — Plural form of cattery.
- cauteries — Plural form of cautery.
- cauterise — to burn with a hot iron, electric current, fire, or a caustic, especially for curative purposes; treat with a cautery.
- cauterism — the application of burning, searing, or cautery
- caveators — a person who files or enters a caveat.
- centaurus — a conspicuous extensive constellation in the S hemisphere, close to the Southern Cross, that contains two first magnitude stars, Alpha Centauri and Beta Centauri, and the globular cluster Omega Centauri
- ceramists — Plural form of ceramist.
- cerastium — any of a genus of plants belonging to the family Caryophyllaceae
- ceratitis — Alternative spelling of keratitis.
- ceratodus — any of various extinct lungfish constituting the genus Ceratodus, common in Cretaceous and Triassic times
- cerealist — a person who studies cereals and the conditions for their growth
- certosina — a technique of inlaying light-colored material, as bone, ivory, metal, or pale wood, in elaborate designs on a dark ground.
- cervantes — Miguel de (miˈɣɛl ðe), full surname Cervantes Saavedra. 1547–1616, Spanish dramatist, poet, and prose writer, most famous for Don Quixote (1605), which satirizes the chivalric romances and greatly influenced the development of the novel