9-letter words containing c, o, a, t, p
- catchpoll — (formerly) a petty officer of justice, especially one arresting persons for debt.
- catoptric — the branch of optics dealing with the formation of images by mirrors.
- cenotaphs — Plural form of cenotaph.
- chaetopod — any annelid worm of the classes Oligochaeta or Polychaeta
- chaseport — a porthole through which a gun was fired
- chassepot — a breech-loading bolt-action rifle formerly used by the French Army
- cheap out — to take the cheapest option; try to do something as cheaply as possible
- chipolata — a small sausage in a narrow casing
- chopsteak — chopped steak.
- cleopatra — a yellow butterfly, Gonepteryx cleopatra, the male of which has its wings flushed with orange
- clodpated — stupid
- cloth cap — A cloth cap is a soft flat cap with a stiff, curved part at the front called a peak. Cloth caps are usually worn by men.
- cloth-cap — pertaining to or characteristic of the working class.
- 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
- compacity — Any of several technical measures of compactness, especially, in a granular medium (e.g. sand), the volume fraction that is filled.
- compacted — compressed as a result of physical pressure
- compacter — Comparative form of compact.
- compactly — joined or packed together; closely and firmly united; dense; solid: compact soil.
- compactor — a machine that compacts something, esp rubbish
- compilate — (rare) To put together; to assemble; to make by gathering things from various sources.
- complaint — A complaint is a statement in which you express your dissatisfaction with a particular situation.
- compleats — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compleat.
- compliant — If you say that someone is compliant, you mean they willingly do what they are asked to do.
- comptable — countable
- computant — a person who calculates
- 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
- copartner — a partner or associate, esp an equal partner in business
- copasetic — fine; completely satisfactory; OK.
- copataine — (of a hat) high-crowned
- copatriot — a fellow patriot
- copayment — a fee paid by a subscriber to a service for the use of additional services not covered by the subscription
- copiapite — (mineral) A basic ferric sulfate mineral found in oxidized iron sulfide deposits, with the chemical formula Fe2+Fe3+4(SO4)6(OH)2'\u00b7'20H2O.
- copulated — Simple past tense and past participle of copulate.
- copulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of copulate.
- copypasta — (Internet slang) A block of text which has been copied and pasted from somewhere else.
- copytaker — (esp in a newspaper office) a person employed to type reports as journalists dictate them over the telephone
- coroplast — A manufacturer of terracotta figurines (in Ancient Greece).
- corporate — Corporate means relating to business corporations or to a particular business corporation.
- corposant — Saint Elmo's fire
- crackpots — Plural form of crackpot.
- crapshoot — If you describe something as a crapshoot, you mean that what happens depends entirely on luck or chance.
- crazy top — a disease of cotton, corn, etc., characterized by abnormal branching and small, misshapen leaves in the upper part of the plant, caused by water shortage, organic deficiencies in the soil, or unknown causes.
- crorepati — (in India) a person whose assets are worth at least one crore or 10 million rupees
- cryptogam — (in former plant classification schemes) any organism that does not produce seeds, including algae, fungi, mosses, and ferns
- culpatory — expressing blame
- cupolated — having a cupola or cupolas.
- cyanotype — a process of photographic printing, used chiefly in copying architectural and mechanical drawings, that produces a blue line on a white background.
- cystocarp — a reproductive body in red algae, developed after fertilization and consisting of filaments bearing carpospores