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9-letter words containing a, m, p

  • campagnol — (archaic) A mouse (Arvicala agrestis) that often does great damage in fields and gardens, by feeding on roots and seeds.
  • campaigns — Plural form of campaign.
  • campanile — (esp in Italy) a bell tower, not usually attached to another building
  • campanist — an expert on bells
  • campanula — any N temperate plant of the campanulaceous genus Campanula, typically having blue or white bell-shaped flowers
  • campcraft — the skills that are required for camping
  • campeador — a champion
  • campering — a person who camps out for recreation, especially in the wilderness.
  • campervan — (Australia, NZ, British) A vehicle that provides both transport and sleeping accommodation.
  • campesino — a Latin American rural peasant
  • campfires — Plural form of campfire.
  • campiness — the quality of being campy
  • campodean — a campodeid.
  • campodeid — any of various primitive and wingless insects of the genus Campodea
  • camporees — Plural form of camporee.
  • campshirt — a loose, short-sleeved shirt or blouse with an open collar
  • campsites — Plural form of campsite.
  • campstool — a lightweight folding stool
  • cape-nome — a seaport in W Alaska.
  • capernaum — a ruined town in N Israel, on the NW shore of the Sea of Galilee: closely associated with Jesus Christ during his ministry
  • capitatim — Per head.
  • capitulum — a racemose inflorescence in the form of a disc of sessile flowers, the youngest at the centre. It occurs in the daisy and related plants
  • capriform — resembling a goat
  • capsicums — Plural form of capsicum.
  • capsomere — any of the protein units that together form the capsid of a virus
  • carpellum — (botany) A carpel.
  • cataplasm — a poultice, often medicated
  • champagne — Champagne is an expensive French white wine with bubbles in. It is often drunk to celebrate something.
  • champaign — an expanse of open level or gently undulating country
  • 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
  • champians — Plural form of champian.
  • champions — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of champion.
  • champlain — Samuel de (samyɛl də). ?1567–1635, French explorer; founder of Quebec (1608) and governor of New France (1633–35)
  • champleve — of or relating to a process of enamelling by which grooves are cut into a metal base and filled with enamel colours
  • chautemps — Camille [ka-mee-yuh] /kaˈmi yə/ (Show IPA), 1885–1963, French politician: premier 1930, 1933–34, 1937–38.
  • chempaduk — an evergreen moraceous tree, Artocarpus champeden (or A. integer), of Malaysia, similar to the jackfruit
  • chinampas — Plural form of chinampa.
  • chipmaker — a manufacturer of electronic chips.
  • chokedamp — blackdamp
  • 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.
  • clampdown — A clampdown is a sudden restriction on a particular activity by a government or other authority.
  • compacity — Any of several technical measures of compactness, especially, in a granular medium (e.g. sand), the volume fraction that is filled.
  • compacted — compressed as a result of physical pressure
  • compacter — Comparative form of compact.
  • compactly — joined or packed together; closely and firmly united; dense; solid: compact soil.
  • compactor — a machine that compacts something, esp rubbish
  • compadres — Plural form of compadre.
  • compagnie — company.
  • 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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