9-Letter Words Containing: A,C,A,Y

• A stay (rope, bar or batten), running along a ship's yard, to which is attached the head of a square sail.

• A cable between two ships or from a ship to a fixed point which can be used to support a load during transfer of personnel or materiel along the cable.

• A line (rope, webbing or cable), attached to a boat at the ends, to which a safety harness can be clipped to restrain falling in rough conditions and to prevent falling overboard.

• (underwater diving) A line fixed at both ends, which may be used to guide a load or a diver along the route of the line. Uses include guidance to and from the underwater work site, and as a means of controlling an underwater search.

• informal term for ridiculous and implausible

• change by catalysis or cause to catalyze

• the attribute of being so near as to be touching

• An abrupt loss of muscle tone, sometimes associated with narcolepsy.

• That which catalyzes.

• A catalytic converter.

• an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship

• change by catalysis or cause to catalyze