9-letter words containing c, o, u, p
- nonpublic — Not open or available to the public.
- occupance — Occupancy.
- occupancy — the act, state, or condition of being or becoming a tenant or of living in or taking up quarters or space in or on something: Continued occupancy of the office depends on a rent reduction.
- occupants — Plural form of occupant.
- occupiers — Plural form of occupier.
- occupying — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- octopuses — Plural form of octopus.
- octuplets — Plural form of octuplet.
- octupling — Present participle of octuple.
- on-campus — on the area of land that contains the main buildings of a university or college
- opercular — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
- operculum — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
- ophiuchus — a large constellation lying on the celestial equator between Hercules and Scorpius and containing the dark nebula, Ophiuchus Nebula
- opuscules — Plural form of opuscule.
- opusculum — opuscule.
- outpacing — Present participle of outpace.
- outplacer — a person who outplaces ex-employees
- outpreach — to outdo in preaching or overcome by preaching
- outpriced — Simple past tense and past participle of outprice.
- pachomius — Saint, a.d. 292?–348? Egyptian ascetic: founder of the cenobitical form of monasticism.
- parcourse — an outdoor exercise track or course, especially for joggers, equipped with a series of stations along the way where one is to stop and perform a specific exercise.
- parecious — paroicous.
- paroicous — (of certain mosses) having the male and female reproductive organs beside or near each other.
- patchogue — a town on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- patchouli — a plant, Pogostemon cablin, of tropical Asia, that yields a fragrant oil (patchouli oil) used in the manufacture of perfumes.
- pathocure — Psychiatry. cessation of a neurosis with the appearance of an organic disease.
- patroclus — Classical Mythology. a friend of Achilles, who was slain by Hector at Troy.
- pecunious — having plenty of money; wealthy
- percussor — plexor.
- picocurie — a trillionth of a curie, which is a unit of radioactivity
- piece out — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
- pinaceous — belonging to the plant family Pinaceae.
- plumbicon — a development of the vidicon television camera tube in which the photosensitive material is lead oxide
- plutocrat — a member of a plutocracy.
- pneumonic — of, relating to, or affecting the lungs; pulmonary.
- pocketful — the amount that a pocket will hold.
- poeticule — an inferior poet
- pollucite — a colourless rare mineral consisting of a hydrated caesium aluminium silicate, often containing some rubidium. It occurs in coarse granite, esp in Manitoba, and is an important source of caesium. Formula: CsAlSi2O6.1⁄2H2O
- pomaceous — of, relating to, or of the nature of pomes.
- pond scum — any free-floating freshwater alga that forms a green scum on water.
- pony club — an international youth organization that educates young people about horses and horse riding
- pop music — popular music
- porcupine — any of several rodents covered with stiff, sharp, erectile spines or quills, as Erethizon dorsatum of North America.
- portulaca — any of various fleshy-leaved plants of the genus Portulaca, especially P. grandiflora, widely cultivated for its showy, variously colored flowers.
- posticous — hinder; posterior.
- poulticed — a soft, moist mass of cloth, bread, meal, herbs, etc., applied hot as a medicament to the body.
- poundcake — a rich, sweet cake made originally with approximately a pound each of butter, sugar, and flour.
- power cut — break in electricity supply
- precursor — a person or thing that precedes, as in a job, a method, etc.; predecessor.
- preoccupy — to absorb or engross to the exclusion of other things.