9-letter words containing c, e, l, p
- captively — In a captive manner.
- care plan — a plan for the medical care of a particular patient or the welfare of a child in care
- carpellum — (botany) A carpel.
- carpooled — Simple past tense and past participle of carpool.
- carpooler — a member of a carpool
- 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
- cd player — A CD player is a machine on which you can play CDs.
- cell pack — a container made of cellular plastic, as one used for holding flowers or plants.
- cellphone — A cellphone is the same as a cellular phone.
- celoscope — an instrument for examining a body cavity.
- cephalate — (of living organisms) possessing a head or headlike feature
- cephalgia — (medicine) headache.
- cephalins — Plural form of cephalin.
- cephaloid — Shaped like the head or the brain.
- cephalous — having a head
- cesspools — Plural form of cesspool.
- champleve — of or relating to a process of enamelling by which grooves are cut into a metal base and filled with enamel colours
- chapleted — wearing a wreath or garland on the head
- chapteral — of or pertaining to a chapter
- chiltepin — a variety of chilli pepper, Capsicum annuum, growing wild in Mexico and the south-western United States
- chipotles — Plural form of chipotle.
- chippable — having the ability to be reduced to small pieces
- cinephile — a person who loves films and cinema
- cisalpine — on this (the southern) side of the Alps, as viewed from Rome
- clapbread — a type of cake made from oatmeal
- clay pipe — a pipe whose bowl is made of fired clay
- cleft lip — a congenital split in the upper lip, often associated with a cleft palate
- 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
- clerkship — The position or status of a clerk, especially in the legal profession.
- clipsheet — a sheet of paper with text printed on one side only
- clodpated — stupid
- clonotype — (taxonomy) A herbarium specimen made from plants vegetatively propagated from (and thus clones of) the same plant from which a type specimen was made.
- clozapine — a sedative used to treat schizophrenia
- clumpiest — Superlative form of clumpy.
- codevelop — to develop jointly
- cold pole — the location in the northern or southern hemisphere having the coldest annual mean temperature in that hemisphere.
- cold type — typesetting done by a method other than the casting of molten type
- coldsleep — A deep sleep during which the body is stored at very cold temperature, to preserve it; cryogenic sleep.
- coleopter — an aircraft that has an annular wing with the fuselage and engine on the centre line
- coliphage — a bacteriophage
- collapsed — Simple past tense and past participle of collapse.
- collapses — Plural form of collapse.
- collotype — a method of lithographic printing from a flat surface of hardened gelatine: used mainly for fine-detail reproduction in monochrome or colour
- coloscope — a flexible, lighted, tubular instrument using fiber optics to permit visualization of the colon.
- compelled — to force or drive, especially to a course of action: His disregard of the rules compels us to dismiss him.
- compeller — to force or drive, especially to a course of action: His disregard of the rules compels us to dismiss him.