Phrase Hound found 47 phrases and 27 compound words that contain cause. The most common are listed below. Open cause in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 47
- cause of deathThe official cause of a human death as typically determined by a coroner during an autopsy and included on the death certificate of a deceased person.
- cause of actionA condition under which one party would be entitled to sue another.
- probable causeReasonable grounds for making an arrest or conducting a personal or property search.
- root causeAn initiating cause of a chain of events which leads to an outcome or effect of interest.
- lost causeA person or thing that is hopeless or futile.
- good causeAdequate or substantial grounds or reason to take a certain action, or to fail to take an action prescribed by law.
- cause and effectCausation; causality; the process whereby a cause leads to an effect.
- common causeA shared purpose.
- show causeIn English law, to argue against the confirmation of a provisional order or judgment.
- just causeA common standard in employment law, as a form of job security, indicating that a terminated employee has been dismissed from the job for misconduct, or another sufficient reason.
- first causeAn initial cause from which all other causes and effects follow.
- Reasonable cause
- final causeThe purpose, goal, or end fulfilled by a thing.
- material causeThe stuff or matter of which something is made.
- cause a stirTo cause controversy, or raise a disturbance.
- efficient causeThe being or event which physically brings about the change or motion that produces another occurrence or thing.
- without causeWithout any reason or justification.
- style of causeThe case title for a cause of action or lawsuit; a description of the parties involved, such as Johnson v. Smith.
- formal causeThe design, pattern, or pure concept of a thing, which gives form or structure to its matter.
- external causeA cause for an effect in a system that is not a constituent of that system, especially causes of personal health problems or death, such as poison, weapon wounds, or accident.
- cause célèbreAn issue or incident (originally, a legal case) arousing widespread controversy or public debate.
- false causeThe fallacy of stating as a cause what is not actually the cause; the fallacy of non causa pro causa.
- all-causeOf any or whatever cause.
- make common causeTo cooperate, to enter into an alliance for a shared goal.
- hour of causeA time of trial or difficulty.
Compound words 27
- causalOf, relating to, or being a cause of something; causing.
- causalityThe agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect.
- causationThe act of causing.
- causelessHaving no obvious cause; fortuitous or inexplicable.
- causateThe effect of a cause.
- HollowcauseThe Holocaust.
- uncauseTo revert or undo the causing of an act or action
- omnicauseThe hypothesised relation of major political causes and issues, especially in the context of such relatedness being false or inessential.
- concauseA joint cause.
- countercauseA cause that opposes or counteracts another cause.