9-letter words containing a, p, o, r
- 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.
- 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.
- clapboard — A clapboard building has walls which are covered with long narrow pieces of wood, usually painted white.
- cleopatra — a yellow butterfly, Gonepteryx cleopatra, the male of which has its wings flushed with orange
- 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.
- co-parent — a divorced or separated parent who shares equally with the other parent in the custody and care of a child.
- collapsar — a collapsed star, either a white dwarf, neutron star, or black hole
- compacter — Comparative form of compact.
- compactor — a machine that compacts something, esp rubbish
- 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
- companera — (in the southwestern U.S.) a female companion; friend.
- companero — (in the southwestern U.S.) a male companion or partner.
- comparing — Present participle of compare.
- comprador — (formerly in China and some other Asian countries) a native agent of a foreign enterprise
- comprisal — to include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several socialist republics.
- cooperage — the craft, place of work, or products of a cooper
- cooperate — If you cooperate with someone, you work with them or help them for a particular purpose. You can also say that two people cooperate.
- coparceny — (legal) An equal share of an inheritance.
- copartner — a partner or associate, esp an equal partner in business
- copatriot — a fellow patriot
- copraemia — a type of poisoning caused by faecal matter entering the bloodstream as a result of chronic constipation