9-letter words containing c, a, p, e, t
- caponette — a capon produced by the administration of a synthetic sex hormone.
- caporetto — Italian village (now in Slovenia): scene of a battle of WWI in which the Italian army was defeated by Austro-German forces (1917)
- caprylate — a salt of caprylic acid
- capstones — Plural form of capstone.
- capsulate — within or formed into a capsule
- captained — Simple past tense and past participle of captain.
- captative — (linguistics) Describing a verb (in some languages) that has a specific ending or other marker to indicate a hunting or catching function.
- captioned — Simple past tense and past participle of caption.
- captivate — If you are captivated by someone or something, you find them fascinating and attractive.
- captively — In a captive manner.
- capturers — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- carpenter — A carpenter is a person whose job is making and repairing wooden things.
- carpentry — Carpentry is the activity of making and repairing wooden things.
- carpetbag — a travelling bag originally made of carpeting
- carpeting — You use carpeting to refer to a carpet, or to the type of material that is used to make carpets.
- cartopper — an object, esp a small boat, designed to be transported on top of a vehicle
- catalepsy — a state of prolonged rigid posture, occurring for example in schizophrenia or in hypnotic trances
- cataplane — an aircraft designed to be launched by a catapult.
- cataplexy — sudden temporary paralysis, brought on by severe shock
- catchpole — (in medieval England) a sheriff's officer who arrested debtors
- cathepsin — a proteolytic enzyme responsible for the autolysis of cells after death
- catheptic — of or relating to enzymes that catalyze autolysis in death or pathological conditions
- catnapped — Simple past tense and past participle of catnap.
- catnapper — a person who catnaps
- cenotaphs — Plural form of cenotaph.
- cephalate — (of living organisms) possessing a head or headlike feature
- chaetopod — any annelid worm of the classes Oligochaeta or Polychaeta
- 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
- chapiters — Plural form of chapiter.
- chapleted — wearing a wreath or garland on the head
- chapter 7 — the statute regarding liquidation proceedings that empowers a court to appoint a trustee to operate a failing business to prevent further loss
- chapteral — of or pertaining to a chapter
- chaptered — a main division of a book, treatise, or the like, usually bearing a number or title.
- chaseport — a porthole through which a gun was fired
- chassepot — a breech-loading bolt-action rifle formerly used by the French Army
- chautemps — Camille [ka-mee-yuh] /kaˈmi yə/ (Show IPA), 1885–1963, French politician: premier 1930, 1933–34, 1937–38.
- cheap out — to take the cheapest option; try to do something as cheaply as possible
- chopsteak — chopped steak.
- cityscape — an urban landscape; view of a city
- cleopatra — a yellow butterfly, Gonepteryx cleopatra, the male of which has its wings flushed with orange
- clodpated — stupid
- co-parent — a divorced or separated parent who shares equally with the other parent in the custody and care of a child.
- coadapted — adapted to one another
- compacted — compressed as a result of physical pressure
- compacter — Comparative form of compact.
- compilate — (rare) To put together; to assemble; to make by gathering things from various sources.
- compleats — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compleat.
- comptable — countable
- 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.
- copacetic — very good; excellent; completely satisfactory