9-letter words containing p, r, o
- bookpaper — the paper used in printing books, especially when of superior quality.
- bootstrap — If you bootstrap an organization or an activity, you set it up or achieve it alone, using very few resources.
- borescope — a long narrow optical device used to inspect the interior of a tight space
- boxkeeper — an attendant responsible for theatre boxes
- broomrape — any orobanchaceous plant of the genus Orobanche: brownish small-flowered leafless parasites on the roots of other plants, esp on legumes
- bryophyte — any plant of the phyla Bryophyta (mosses), Hepatophyta (liverworts), or Anthocerophyta (hornworts), having stems and leaves but lacking true vascular tissue and roots and reproducing by spores
- bud sport — a shoot, inflorescence, etc, that differs from another such structure on a plant and is caused by a somatic mutation; the differences can be retained by vegetative propagation
- bull rope — any of various ropes for holding objects to prevent them from rubbing against or striking other objects.
- buoy rope — a rope attaching a buoy to its anchor
- bupropion — an antidepressant drug used to help people stop smoking
- byproduct — A byproduct is something that is produced during the manufacture or processing of another product.
- campeador — a champion
- camporees — Plural form of camporee.
- canephora — Caryatid that supports a basket on her head.
- capacitor — A capacitor is a device for accumulating electric charge.
- caparison — a decorated covering for a horse or other animal, esp (formerly) for a warhorse
- cape horn — a rocky headland on an island at the extreme S tip of South America, belonging to Chile. It is notorious for gales and heavy seas; until the building of the Panama Canal it lay on the only sea route between the Atlantic and the Pacific
- cape roca — a cape in SW central Portugal, near Lisbon: the westernmost point of continental Europe
- cape work — the skillful practice of a bullfighter in using a cape to maneuver a bull.
- cape york — the northernmost point of the Australian mainland, in N Queensland on the Torres Strait at the tip of Cape York Peninsula (a peninsula between the Coral Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria)
- caporetto — Italian village (now in Slovenia): scene of a battle of WWI in which the Italian army was defeated by Austro-German forces (1917)
- capriccio — a lively piece composed freely and without adhering to the rules for any specific musical form
- capricorn — Capricorn is one of the twelve signs of the zodiac. Its symbol is a goat. People who are born approximately between the 22nd of December and the 19th of January come under this sign.
- caprifole — honeysuckle
- capriform — resembling a goat
- caprioled — Simple past tense and past participle of capriole.
- caprioles — Plural form of capriole.
- capsomere — any of the protein units that together form the capsid of a virus
- captopril — an ACE inhibitor used to treat high blood pressure and congestive heart failure
- car phone — A car phone is a mobile phone, especially one which is designed to be used in a car.
- cardphone — a public telephone operated by the insertion of a phonecard instead of coins
- carpaccio — an Italian dish of thin slices of raw meat or fish
- 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.
- cataphora — the use of a word such as a pronoun that has the same reference as a word used subsequently in the same discourse
- catoptric — the branch of optics dealing with the formation of images by mirrors.
- 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.
- 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.
- chaseport — a porthole through which a gun was fired
- 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.
- chipproof — resistant to chipping.
- chiropody — Chiropody is the professional treatment and care of people's feet.
- chiropter — an animal of the order Chiroptera; a bat