list all categories that have a certain word in title

You can try this code below

$args = array(
  'orderby'           => 'name', 
  'order'             => 'ASC',
  'name__like'        => '%LIKE%',
  'description__like' => '%LIKE%',
); 

$terms = get_terms( array( "taxonomy" ), $args );

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