9-letter words containing a, c, p, r
- cup coral — any of several species of coral in which the polyp forms and houses itself in a cup-shaped depression in the skeleton.
- cupbearer — an attendant who fills and serves wine cups, as in a royal household
- cupboards — Plural form of cupboard.
- cupboardy — (rare) Cupboardlike: for example small, fusty or poorly lit.
- curlpaper — a strip of paper used to roll up and set a section of hair, usually wetted, into a curl
- cymograph — an instrument for tracing the outline of an architectural moulding
- cystocarp — a reproductive body in red algae, developed after fertilization and consisting of filaments bearing carpospores
- deprecate — If you deprecate something, you criticize it.
- diasporic — of or relating to a (or the) Diaspora
- diatropic — the tendency of some plant organs to take a transverse position to the line of action of an outside stimulus.
- digraphic — Of or pertaining to a digraph.
- displacer — a person or thing that displaces.
- drop arch — a pointed arch having radii of length less than the span.
- drop back — a lowering, as of prices or standards, especially to a previous level: Auto manufacturers requested a dropback in emissions standards.
- dropsical — of, like, or affected with dropsy.
- dyspraxic — Of or pertaining to dyspraxia.
- earpieces — Plural form of earpiece.
- echograph — a device that records oceanic depths by means of sonic waves.
- emperical — Misspelling of empirical.
- empirical — Based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic.
- encapture — (transitive) To capture.
- endocarps — Plural form of endocarp.
- eparchial — Of or pertaining to an eparchy.
- eparchies — Plural form of eparchy.
- epicardia — Plural form of epicardium.
- epicentra — epicentres
- epicrania — tissue covering the cranium
- epicurean — Of or concerning Epicurus or his ideas.
- escarping — Present participle of escarp.
- esperance — (obsolete) Expectation, hope.
- eucryphia — any tree or shrub of the mostly evergreen genus Eucryphia, native to Australia and S America, having leaves of a dark lustrous green and white flowers: family Eucryphiaceae
- faceprint — a digitally recorded representation of a person's face that can be used for security purposes because it is as individual as a fingerprint
- fair copy — a copy of a document made after final correction.
- far piece — a considerable distance: They moved a far piece from here.
- fireplace — the part of a chimney that opens into a room and in which fuel is burned; hearth.
- firescape — to arrange the features of (a garden or other area of land) in a way that inhibits the spread of fire, for example by increasing the amount of open space and cultivating fire-resistant plants
- flaptrack — (in an aircraft wing) a track along which the wing flap runs when it is being deployed
- flipchart — A flipchart is a stand with large sheets of paper which is used when presenting information at a meeting.
- forcipate — having the shape of or resembling a forceps.
- framepack — a backpack attached to a supporting frame of usually lightweight metal.
- geocarpic — pertaining to geocarpy
- grace cup — a cup, as of wine, passed around at the end of the meal for the final health or toast.
- grapelice — lice that are destructive to grape plants
- graphemic — Of or pertaining to graphemes or their study.
- graphical — giving a clear and effective picture; vivid: a graphic account of an earthquake.
- graphitic — a very common mineral, soft native carbon, occurring in black to dark-gray foliated masses, with metallic luster and greasy feel: used for pencil leads, as a lubricant, and for making crucibles and other refractories; plumbago; black lead.
- hair clip — clasp for securing hairstyle
- hairpiece — a toupee.
- hard copy — copy, as computer output printed on paper, that can be read without using a special device (opposed to soft copy).
- hardscape — the manmade part of the grounds surrounding a building, as paved areas or statues.