9-letter words containing a, p, o
- chapbooks — Plural form of chapbook.
- 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
- chassepot — a breech-loading bolt-action rifle formerly used by the French Army
- cheap out — to take the cheapest option; try to do something as cheaply as possible
- 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.
- chipolata — a small sausage in a narrow casing
- 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.
- chopsteak — chopped steak.
- 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.
- 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.
- clodpated — stupid
- cloth cap — A cloth cap is a soft flat cap with a stiff, curved part at the front called a peak. Cloth caps are usually worn by men.
- cloth-cap — pertaining to or characteristic of the working class.
- clozapine — a sedative used to treat schizophrenia
- co-parent — a divorced or separated parent who shares equally with the other parent in the custody and care of a child.
- coachwhip — a coachwhip snake
- coadapted — adapted to one another
- cockahoop — Alternative form of cock-a-hoop.
- cockapoos — Plural form of cockapoo.
- 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.
- coliphage — a bacteriophage
- collapsar — a collapsed star, either a white dwarf, neutron star, or black hole
- collapsed — Simple past tense and past participle of collapse.
- collapses — Plural form of collapse.
- 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.
- companero — (in the southwestern U.S.) a male companion or partner.
- companied — Simple past tense and past participle of company.
- companies — Plural form of company.
- companion — A companion is someone who you spend time with or who you are travelling with.
- company's — a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people.
- comparing — Present participle of compare.
- compassed — Simple past tense and past participle of compass.
- compasses — Plural form of compass.
- compazine — a tranquilizing drug, C28H32ClN3O8S, used to control serious nausea or vomiting and to reduce anxiety
- compendia — a brief treatment or account of a subject, especially an extensive subject; concise treatise: a compendium of medicine.