9-letter words containing a, d, p
- blackdamp — air that is low in oxygen content and high in carbon dioxide as a result of an explosion in a mine
- body part — a part of a human body
- body plan — Biology. the basic shape of members of an animal phylum; the general structure each individual organism assumes as it develops. Compare bilateral symmetry, radial symmetry.
- body wrap — a beauty treatment in which the body is covered in lotion and wrapped tightly in strips of cloth in order to promote weight loss or improve skin tone
- brake pad — the flat metal casting, together with the bound friction material, in a disc brake
- cadetship — a student in a national service academy or private military school or on a training ship.
- calipered — Simple past tense and past participle of caliper.
- campeador — a champion
- campodean — a campodeid.
- campodeid — any of various primitive and wingless insects of the genus Campodea
- candlepin — a bowling pin, as used in skittles, tenpin bowling, candlepins, etc
- cap cloud — a stationary cloud directly above an isolated mountain peak. Compare banner cloud, crest cloud.
- capitated — having a fixed upper limit
- caponized — Simple past tense and past participle of caponize.
- caprioled — Simple past tense and past participle of capriole.
- captained — Simple past tense and past participle of captain.
- captioned — Simple past tense and past participle of caption.
- carapaced — (of an animal) having a carapace
- cardphone — a public telephone operated by the insertion of a phonecard instead of coins
- cardpunch — a device, no longer widely used, controlled by a computer, for transferring information from the central processing unit onto punched cards
- cardsharp — a professional card player who cheats
- carpooled — Simple past tense and past participle of carpool.
- cashed up — having plenty of money
- catnapped — Simple past tense and past participle of catnap.
- cd player — A CD player is a machine on which you can play CDs.
- cephaloid — Shaped like the head or the brain.
- chaetopod — any annelid worm of the classes Oligochaeta or Polychaeta
- chapleted — wearing a wreath or garland on the head
- chaptered — a main division of a book, treatise, or the like, usually bearing a number or title.
- cheapened — Simple past tense and past participle of cheapen.
- cheapside — street and district of London; in the Middle Ages it was a marketplace
- chempaduk — an evergreen moraceous tree, Artocarpus champeden (or A. integer), of Malaysia, similar to the jackfruit
- 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.
- chipheads — Plural form of chiphead.
- chokedamp — blackdamp
- cispadane — on this (the southern) side of the River Po, as viewed from Rome
- clampdown — A clampdown is a sudden restriction on a particular activity by a government or other authority.
- 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
- clepsydra — an ancient device for measuring time by the flow of water or mercury through a small aperture
- 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.
- clodpated — stupid
- coadapted — adapted to one another
- cold pack — a method of lowering the body temperature by wrapping a person in a sheet soaked in cold water
- cold snap — A cold snap is a short period of cold and icy weather.
- cold-pack — to place a cold pack on: to cold-pack a feverish patient.
- collapsed — Simple past tense and past participle of collapse.
- compacted — compressed as a result of physical pressure
- 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