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9-letter words containing cas

  • cassettes — Plural form of cassette.
  • cassimere — a woollen suiting cloth of plain or twill weave
  • cassingle — a cassette single
  • cassonade — raw or unrefined sugar
  • cassoulet — a stew originating from France, made from haricot beans and goose, duck, pork, etc
  • cassowary — any large flightless bird of the genus Casuarius, inhabiting forests in NE Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands, having a horny head crest, black plumage, and brightly coloured neck and wattles: order Casuariiformes
  • cast away — to throw or hurl; fling: The gambler cast the dice.
  • cast back — to turn (the mind) to the past
  • 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.
  • castaneda — Carlos, 1925–1998, U.S. anthropologist and writer, born in Peru.
  • castanets — Castanets are a Spanish musical instrument consisting of two small round pieces of wood or plastic held together by a cord. You hold the castanets in your hand and knock the pieces together with your fingers.
  • castaways — Plural form of castaway.
  • casteless — having no caste
  • castellan — a keeper or governor of a castle
  • castellón — seaport in E Spain, on the Mediterranean: pop. 133,000
  • castellum — a small fort, normally used as a watch tower
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • caucasian — A Caucasian person is a white person.
  • caucasoid — denoting, relating to, or belonging to the lighter-complexioned supposed racial group of mankind, which includes the peoples indigenous to Europe, N Africa, SW Asia, and the Indian subcontinent and their descendants in other parts of the world
  • circassia — a region of S Russia, on the Black Sea north of the Caucasus Mountains
  • cold case — a police inquiry that has been suspended with the crime still unsolved
  • cold cash — money paid in full at the time of a business transaction
  • colorcast — a television broadcast in color
  • crankcase — the metal housing that encloses the crankshaft, connecting rods, etc, in an internal-combustion engine, reciprocating pump, etc
  • cybercash — Funds used in electronic financial transactions, especially over the Internet.
  • cybercast — (Internet) A broadcast of audiovisual material over the Internet.
  • decastere — a measure equivalent to ten steres or cubic metres
  • decastich — a poem that consists of ten lines
  • decastyle — a portico consisting of ten columns
  • dicastery — A term used by the Vatican corresponding to ministry or department as subdivisions of the papal Curia, referring to the administrative departments of the Vatican City State, as well as strictly ecclesiastical departments; more often termed congregation.
  • doncaster — a city in South Yorkshire, in N England.
  • doorcases — Plural form of doorcase.
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