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9-letter words containing c, o, p, a, r, e

  • copraemic — of or relating to copraemia
  • copy-read — to work on (copy) as a copyreader.
  • copytaker — (esp in a newspaper office) a person employed to type reports as journalists dictate them over the telephone
  • cornopean — a cornet
  • corporate — Corporate means relating to business corporations or to a particular business corporation.
  • corporeal — Corporeal means involving or relating to the physical world rather than the spiritual world.
  • cosplayer — One who takes part in cosplay.
  • cramponee — (heraldry) Having a cramp or square piece at the end; said of a cross.
  • cremocarp — any fruit consisting of two united carpels which hang from a supporting axis
  • crorepati — (in India) a person whose assets are worth at least one crore or 10 million rupees
  • echograph — a device that records oceanic depths by means of sonic waves.
  • endocarps — Plural form of endocarp.
  • forcipate — having the shape of or resembling a forceps.
  • geocarpic — pertaining to geocarpy
  • ice apron — a structure built in a river upstream from a bridge pier or the like for protection against drifting ice.
  • jack rope — a rope for bending the foot of a sail to a boom.
  • 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.
  • mercapto- — (in chemical compounds) indicating the presence of an HS- group
  • mesocarps — Plural form of mesocarp.
  • 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.
  • opacifier — an agent added to render something opaque
  • operatics — Exaggerated or overly emotional behaviour; histrionics.
  • opercular — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
  • outplacer — a person who outplaces ex-employees
  • outpreach — to outdo in preaching or overcome by preaching
  • overcheap — too cheap
  • packhorse — a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.
  • parcourse — an outdoor exercise track or course, especially for joggers, equipped with a series of stations along the way where one is to stop and perform a specific exercise.
  • parecious — paroicous.
  • paregoric — a camphorated tincture of opium, containing benzoic acid, anise oil, etc., used chiefly to stop diarrhea in children.
  • parocheth — a richly embroidered curtain that hangs in front of the Holy Ark in a synagogue.
  • paroemiac — proverbial; axiomatic
  • patercove — a fraudulent priest
  • pathocure — Psychiatry. cessation of a neurosis with the appearance of an organic disease.
  • pectorals — of, in, on, or pertaining to the chest or breast; thoracic.
  • percolate — to cause (a liquid) to pass through a porous body; filter.
  • peribonca — a river in central Quebec, Canada, flowing S to Lake St. John. 280 miles (451 km) long.
  • pericopae — a selection or extract from a book.
  • phonecard — calling card (def 3).
  • placoderm — any of various extinct jawed fishes of the class Placodermi, dominant in seas and rivers during the Devonian Period and characterized by bony armored plates on the head and upper trunk.
  • podcaster — a digital audio or video file or recording, usually part of a themed series, that can be downloaded from a website to a media player or computer: Download or subscribe to daily, one-hour podcasts of our radio show.
  • polemarch — (in ancient Greece) a civilian official, originally a supreme general
  • porcelain — a strong, vitreous, translucent ceramic material, biscuit-fired at a low temperature, the glaze then fired at a very high temperature.
  • porchetta — Italian boneless stuffed pork cut from a whole roast pig
  • post race — a race in which each owner is allowed to list a number of possible entries and, at a stipulated time before the race, specify which horse will actually compete.
  • pothecary — apothecary.
  • power mac — (computer)   Apple Computer's personal computer based on the PowerPC, introduced on 1994-03-14. The Power Mac G4 (Quicksilver 2002) was the first Power Mac to clock at 1 GHz. In mid-2003, the Power Mac G5 was released, the first Mac to be based on a 64-bit architecture. IBM manufactured the CPU for this new model. The clock speed was initially 1.6 GHz but a dual 2 GHz system was available in September. Existing 680x0 code (both applications and device drivers) run on Power Mac systems without modification via a Motorola 68LC040 emulator. The performance of these unmodified applications is equivalent to a fast 68040-based Macintosh, e.g. a fast Macintosh Quadra. The Power Mac runs Macintosh operating system from System 7.5 to Mac OS 8.5.
  • praecoces — a division of birds whose young are able to run when first hatched
  • preaction — the process or state of acting or of being active: The machine is not in action now.
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