9-letter words containing c, a, p, e
- eye patch — covering for one eye
- face pack — A face pack is a thick substance which you spread on your face, allow to dry for a short time, and then remove, in order to clean your skin thoroughly.
- faceplant — (informal) The act of landing face first, as a result of an accident or error.
- faceplate — (on a lathe) a perforated plate, mounted on the live spindle, to which the work is attached.
- faceprint — a digitally recorded representation of a person's face that can be used for security purposes because it is as individual as a fingerprint
- far piece — a considerable distance: They moved a far piece from here.
- fastpaced — Alternative spelling of fast-paced.
- fireplace — the part of a chimney that opens into a room and in which fuel is burned; hearth.
- firescape — to arrange the features of (a garden or other area of land) in a way that inhibits the spread of fire, for example by increasing the amount of open space and cultivating fire-resistant plants
- forcipate — having the shape of or resembling a forceps.
- framepack — a backpack attached to a supporting frame of usually lightweight metal.
- geocarpic — pertaining to geocarpy
- gimme cap — a visored cap decorated with the symbol or name of a product, company, etc.
- go places — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- grace cup — a cup, as of wine, passed around at the end of the meal for the final health or toast.
- grapelice — lice that are destructive to grape plants
- graphemic — Of or pertaining to graphemes or their study.
- hacked up — (jargon, programming) Sufficiently patched, kluged, and tweaked that the surgical scars are beginning to crowd out normal tissue (compare critical mass). Not all programs that are hacked become "hacked up"; if modifications are done with some eye to coherence and continued maintainability, the software may emerge better for the experience. Contrast hack up.
- hairpiece — a toupee.
- half-pace — a small stage on which something stands
- half-peck — a unit of dry measure equal to 4 quarts (4.4 liters).
- halfpence — Plural form of halfpenny.
- handpiece — The part of a dental drill, surgical instrument, etc. that is held in the hand.
- hardscape — the manmade part of the grounds surrounding a building, as paved areas or statues.
- headpiece — a piece of armor for the head; helmet.
- headspace — empty space left above the contents of a closed jar, can, or other container.
- hemispace — the area to either the right or left side of the body
- hepaticas — Plural form of hepatica.
- hepatitic — Related to hepatitis and other liver diseases.
- hepatoxic — Exhibiting hepatoxicity.
- heptarchs — Plural form of heptarch.
- heptarchy — (often initial capital letter) the seven principal concurrent Anglo-Saxon kingdoms supposed to have existed in the 7th and 8th centuries.
- hepteract — (mathematics) A seven-dimensional hypercube.
- homeplace — a person's birthplace or family home.
- hyperacid — Highly acidic.
- hypercard — A software package by Bill Atkinson for storage and retrieval of information on the Macintosh. It can handle images and is designed for browsing. The powerful customisable interactive user interface allows new applications to be easily constructed by manipulating objects on the screen, often without conventional programming, though the language HyperTalk can be used for more complex tasks.
- hypotheca — (microbiology, planktology) The lower or posterior half of the theca of a thecate protist such as a diatom or dinoflagellate.
- ice apron — a structure built in a river upstream from a bridge pier or the like for protection against drifting ice.
- ice plant — a plant, Mesembryanthemum crystallinum, native to the Mediterranean region, having fleshy leaves that are covered with glistening vesicles and are sometimes eaten as greens.
- icecapped — having an icecap
- ideoscape — (according to w Arjun Appadurai) The global flow of ideologies.
- impacable — (obsolete) Not to be appeased or quieted.
- impactite — a glassy or crystalline material composed of slag and meteoric materials, produced by the impact of a meteorite striking the earth.
- impactive — caused by impact: impactive pain.
- impeached — Simple past tense and past participle of impeach.
- impeaches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impeach.
- impeccant — Without sin; impeccable.
- impedance — Electricity. the total opposition to alternating current by an electric circuit, equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the resistance and reactance of the circuit and usually expressed in ohms. Symbol: Z.
- imperical — A mirror\u2013nearer merger misspelling of empirical.
- implicate — to show to be also involved, usually in an incriminating manner: to be implicated in a crime.