9-letter words containing c, a, n, p
- procreant — procreating or generating: a sufficiently procreant breed of fish; a procreant cause.
- prolactin — an anterior pituitary polypeptide hormone that stimulates lactation by the mammary glands at parturition in mammals, the activity of the crop in birds, and in some mammalian species the production of progesterone by the corpus luteum.
- provencal — of or relating to Provence, its people, or their language.
- provocant — a person who deliberately behaves controversially to provoke argument or other strong reactions
- ptomainic — causing or resulting from ptomaines
- pugnacity — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- puissance — power, might, or force.
- punchball — a form of playground or street baseball in which a rubber ball is batted with the fist.
- punctatim — point for point.
- punctuate — to mark or divide (something written) with punctuation marks in order to make the meaning clear.
- pursuance — the following or carrying out of some plan, course, injunction, or the like.
- pyracanth — a thorny evergreen shrub of the genus Pyracantha, related to the hawthorn
- pyromancy — divination by fire, or by forms appearing in fire.
- recapping — to recondition (a worn automobile tire) by cementing on a strip of prepared rubber and vulcanizing by subjecting to heat and pressure in a mold.
- recaption — the taking back without violence of one's property or a member of one's family or household unlawfully in the possession or custody of another.
- replacing — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
- replicant — an android that is indistinguishable from a human being
- rhapontic — a type of rhubarb
- scale pan — one of the pans of a balance
- scan path — (circuit design) A technique used to increase the controllability and observability of a logic circuit by incorporating "scan registers" into the circuit. Normally these act like flip-flops but they can be switched into a "test" mode where they all become one long shift register. This allows data to be clocked serially through all the scan registers and out of an output pin at the same time as new data is clocked in from an input pin. Using this technique, the state of certain points in the circuit can be examined and modified at any time by suspending normal operation and switching to test mode. If the scan path is placed adjacent to the circuit's input and output pins then this is known as "boundary scan".
- scarpines — an instrument for torturing feet
- schnapper — a food fish, Pagrosomus auratus, occurring in large numbers off the shores of Australia and New Zealand.
- scrape in — to succeed in entering with difficulty or by a narrow margin
- scrapings — Scrapings are small amounts or pieces that have been scraped off something.
- scrapping — a fight or quarrel: She got into a scrap with her in-laws.
- snap back — a sudden rebound or recovery.
- snaphance — a type of mechanism similar to a flintlock used to discharge a gun
- snowscape — landscape covered with snow.
- space man — space writer.
- spaceband — a device on a linecaster for evening up the spaces between words
- spaciness — the state of being spacey
- spanaemic — relating to a lack of red corpuscles in blood
- spartanic — (usually lowercase) suggestive of the ancient Spartans; sternly disciplined and rigorously simple, frugal, or austere.
- spinacene — a type of vaccine
- spleuchan — a small pouch, especially for carrying tobacco or money.
- sportance — pleasurable or playful activities
- spray can — a small can whose contents are in aerosol form. Compare aerosol bomb.
- stenopaic — (of an optic device) having a narrow opening devised to improve eyesight by limiting obscurations
- stepdance — a dance in which the steps are the most important characteristic, specifically a solo dance with intricate, vigorous steps, often performed with the hands kept in the pockets.
- sulpician — a member of a society of secular priests founded in France in 1642, engaged chiefly in training men to teach in seminaries.
- sycophant — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- syncopate — Music. to place (the accents) on beats that are normally unaccented. to treat (a passage, piece, etc.) in this way.
- tachypnea — excessively rapid respiration.
- tap dance — dance performed with clicking shoes
- tap-dance — to perform a tap dance.
- townscape — a scene or view, either pictorial or natural, of a town or city.
- uncapable — incapable.
- unclamped — to fasten with or fix in a clamp.
- unescaped — to slip or get away, as from confinement or restraint; gain or regain liberty: to escape from jail. Synonyms: flee, abscond, decamp.
- unpacking — removal of items from suitcase, etc.