9-letter words containing a, p, r, e
- charge up — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- chaseport — a porthole through which a gun was fired
- cheapener — One who cheapens.
- chipmaker — a manufacturer of electronic chips.
- clapbread — a type of cake made from oatmeal
- cleopatra — a yellow butterfly, Gonepteryx cleopatra, the male of which has its wings flushed with orange
- clepsydra — an ancient device for measuring time by the flow of water or mercury through a small aperture
- co-parent — a divorced or separated parent who shares equally with the other parent in the custody and care of a child.
- compacter — Comparative form of compact.
- 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.
- 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
- copraemia — a type of poisoning caused by faecal matter entering the bloodstream as a result of chronic constipation
- copraemic — of or relating to copraemia
- copy-read — to work on (copy) as a copyreader.
- copytaker — (esp in a newspaper office) a person employed to type reports as journalists dictate them over the telephone
- cornopean — a cornet
- corporate — Corporate means relating to business corporations or to a particular business corporation.
- corporeal — Corporeal means involving or relating to the physical world rather than the spiritual world.
- cosplayer — One who takes part in cosplay.
- crabapple — Any of the wild species of apple tree, genus Malus, which generally yield small, bitter fruit (in comparison to domestic apples, Malus domestica).
- cramponee — (heraldry) Having a cramp or square piece at the end; said of a cross.
- crapelike — resembling crape
- crappiest — Superlative form of crappy.
- crapulent — given to or resulting from intemperance
- creamcups — a Californian papaveraceous plant, Platystemon californicus, with small cream-coloured or yellow flowers on long flower stalks
- creampuff — puff pastry filled with cream
- crease up — If someone or something makes you crease up or creases you up, they make you laugh a lot.
- cremocarp — any fruit consisting of two united carpels which hang from a supporting axis
- crepitant — to make a crackling sound; crackle.
- crepitate — to make a rattling or crackling sound; rattle or crackle
- crew pram — concurrent read, exclusive write PRAM.
- crispated — Crispate.
- crisphead — a variety of lettuce with a dense cabbage-like head and mild crunchy leaves
- crorepati — (in India) a person whose assets are worth at least one crore or 10 million rupees
- cupbearer — an attendant who fills and serves wine cups, as in a royal household
- curlpaper — a strip of paper used to roll up and set a section of hair, usually wetted, into a curl
- dalrymple — Sir James, 1st Viscount Stair, 1619–95, Scottish jurist.
- date rape — Date rape is when a man rapes a woman whom he has met socially.
- davenport — a tall narrow desk with a slanted writing surface and drawers at the side
- dead drop — a prearranged secret spot where one espionage agent leaves a message or material for another agent to pick up.
- deathtrap — If you say that a place or vehicle is a deathtrap, you mean it is in such bad condition that it might cause someone's death.
- deep-draw — to form (tubing, containers, etc.) by pulling strip or sheet metal between suitably formed and spaced dies. Compare cup (def 22).
- deepwater — having or taking place in deep water
- deer park — a town on central Long Island, in SE New York.