9-letter words containing c, a, p, e
- imprecate — to invoke or call down (evil or curses), as upon a person.
- in places — If something has particular characteristics or features in places, it has them at several points within an area.
- incapable — not capable.
- inculpate — to charge with fault; blame; accuse.
- jack kemp — Jack F. 1935–2009, U.S. politician: congressman 1970–89.
- jack pine — a scrubby pine, Pinus banksiana, growing on tracts of poor, rocky land in Canada and the northern U.S., bearing short needles and curved cones.
- jack rope — a rope for bending the foot of a sail to a boom.
- jackanape — Of or pertaining to a jackanapes.
- jacksnipe — Also called half snipe. a small, short-billed snipe, Limnocryptes minimus, of Europe and Asia.
- jampacked — to fill or pack as tightly or fully as possible: We jam-packed the basket with all kinds of fruit.
- kampuchea — People's Republic of, a former official name of Cambodia.
- keep back — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- keep pace — go as fast
- kelp crab — any of several spider crabs common among kelp beds along the Pacific coast of North America.
- landscape — a section or expanse of rural scenery, usually extensive, that can be seen from a single viewpoint.
- lap dance — an erotic dance by a stripteaser performed mostly in the lap of a customer.
- lap-dance — an erotic dance by a stripteaser performed mostly in the lap of a customer.
- large-cap — designating a company, or a mutual fund that invests in companies, with a market capitalization of $5 billion or more.
- legal cap — ruled writing paper in tablet form, measuring approximately 8½ × 13 to 14 inches (22 × 33 to 36 cm).
- loadspace — the area in a motor vehicle where a load can be carried
- machpelah — the site of a cave, probably in the ancient city of Hebron, where Abraham, Sarah, Rebekah, Isaac, Jacob, and Leah were buried. Gen. 23:19; 25:9; 49:30; 50:13.
- macropore — Any pore sufficiently wide to allow water to flow unimpeded by capillary action.
- macrotape — (storage) /mak'roh-tayp/ An industry-standard reel of magnetic tape, as opposed to a microtape. See also round tape.
- mancipate — (obsolete) To enslave.
- manciples — Plural form of manciple.
- marchpane — marzipan.
- mea culpa — an acknowledgment of one's responsibility for a fault or error.
- meatspace — The physical world, as opposed to cyberspace or a virtual environment.
- megalopic — having large eyes
- megascope — A modification of the magic lantern, used especially for throwing a magnified image of an opaque object on a screen, solar or artificial light being used.
- mepacrine — The drug quinacrine.
- mercaptan — any of a class of sulfur-containing compounds having the type formula RSH, in which R represents a radical, and having an extremely offensive, garlicky odor.
- mercapto- — (in chemical compounds) indicating the presence of an HS- group
- mesocarps — Plural form of mesocarp.
- metacarpi — Plural form of metacarpus.
- metascope — a device for converting infrared radiation into visible light.
- microtape — (hardware, storage) /mi:'kroh-tayp/ Occasionally used to mean a DECtape, as opposed to a macrotape. Apparently the term "microtape" was actually the official term used within DEC for these tapes until someone coined the word "DECtape", which, of course, sounded sexier to the marketroids. Another version of the story holds that someone discovered a conflict with another company's "microtape" trademark.
- mindscape — A mental landscape; the world of the mind.
- mispacked — filled to capacity; full: They've had a packed theater for every performance.
- misplaced — to put in a wrong place.
- misplaces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misplace.
- monospace — Of a typeface, having the same width for each character.
- moonscape — the general appearance of the surface of the moon.
- muck heap — a pile of dung, soil or refuse
- muckheaps — Plural form of muckheap.
- namespace — (computing) A conceptual space that groups classes, identifiers, etc. to avoid conflicts with items in unrelated code that have the same names.
- nasoscope — Rhinoscope.
- nonplaced — Not assigned a place.
- noscapine — (biochemistry) A benzylisoquinoline alkaloid obtained from plants of the Papaveraceae family, primarily used for its antitussive effects.
- nullspace — (math) The kernel of a linear map between two vector spaces or two modules.