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9-letter words containing a, c, p, r

  • carpellum — (botany) A carpel.
  • carpenter — A carpenter is a person whose job is making and repairing wooden things.
  • carpentry — Carpentry is the activity of making and repairing wooden things.
  • carpetbag — a travelling bag originally made of carpeting
  • carpeting — You use carpeting to refer to a carpet, or to the type of material that is used to make carpets.
  • carpingly — In a carping manner.
  • carpology — the branch of botany concerned with the study of fruits and seeds
  • carpooled — Simple past tense and past participle of carpool.
  • carpooler — a member of a carpool
  • cartopper — an object, esp a small boat, designed to be transported on top of a vehicle
  • caryopses — Plural form of caryopsis.
  • caryopsis — a dry seedlike fruit having the pericarp fused to the seed coat of the single seed: produced by the grasses
  • cash crop — A cash crop is a crop that is grown in order to be sold.
  • cassareep — the juice of the bitter cassava root, boiled down to a syrup and used as a flavouring, esp in West Indian cookery
  • cataphora — the use of a word such as a pronoun that has the same reference as a word used subsequently in the same discourse
  • catnapper — a person who catnaps
  • catoptric — the branch of optics dealing with the formation of images by mirrors.
  • cd player — A CD player is a machine on which you can play CDs.
  • cerograph — an engraving or writing on wax
  • ceropegia — any of various, usually climbing or trailing, plants of the genus Ceropegia, native to the Old World tropics and often cultivated as houseplants.
  • champerty — (formerly) an illegal bargain between a party to litigation and an outsider whereby the latter agrees to pay for the action and thereby share in any proceeds recovered
  • chaparral — (in the southwestern US) a dense growth of shrubs and trees, esp evergreen oaks
  • chaperone — A chaperone is someone who accompanies another person somewhere in order to make sure that they do not come to any harm.
  • chaperons — Plural form of chaperon.
  • chapiters — Plural form of chapiter.
  • chapparal — Archaic spelling of chaparral.
  • chaprassi — an office worker or doorman
  • chapter 7 — the statute regarding liquidation proceedings that empowers a court to appoint a trustee to operate a failing business to prevent further loss
  • chapteral — of or pertaining to a chapter
  • chaptered — a main division of a book, treatise, or the like, usually bearing a number or title.
  • charge up — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
  • chaseport — a porthole through which a gun was fired
  • cheapener — One who cheapens.
  • chinstrap — a strap that goes under the chin
  • chipboard — Chipboard is a hard material made out of very small pieces of wood which have been pressed together. It is often used for making doors and furniture.
  • chipmaker — a manufacturer of electronic chips.
  • chop mark — a notch or other mark made in a coin to indicate verification of its authenticity, especially by a banker or merchant in the Far East during the 18th or 19th centuries.
  • clapboard — A clapboard building has walls which are covered with long narrow pieces of wood, usually painted white.
  • clapbread — a type of cake made from oatmeal
  • cleopatra — a yellow butterfly, Gonepteryx cleopatra, the male of which has its wings flushed with orange
  • clepsydra — an ancient device for measuring time by the flow of water or mercury through a small aperture
  • clickwrap — an agreement made by a computer user through clicking on a particular button onscreen
  • clipboard — A clipboard is a board with a clip at the top. It is used to hold together pieces of paper that you need to carry around, and provides a firm base for writing.
  • co-parent — a divorced or separated parent who shares equally with the other parent in the custody and care of a child.
  • collapsar — a collapsed star, either a white dwarf, neutron star, or black hole
  • compacter — Comparative form of compact.
  • compactor — a machine that compacts something, esp rubbish
  • compadres — Plural form of compadre.
  • compander — a system for improving the signal-to-noise ratio of a signal at a transmitter or recorder by first compressing the volume range of the signal and then restoring it to its original amplitude level at the receiving or reproducing apparatus
  • companera — (in the southwestern U.S.) a female companion; friend.
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