9-letter words containing c, p, o
- caparison — a decorated covering for a horse or other animal, esp (formerly) for a warhorse
- cape horn — a rocky headland on an island at the extreme S tip of South America, belonging to Chile. It is notorious for gales and heavy seas; until the building of the Panama Canal it lay on the only sea route between the Atlantic and the Pacific
- cape roca — a cape in SW central Portugal, near Lisbon: the westernmost point of continental Europe
- cape town — the legislative capital of South Africa and capital of Western Cape province, situated in the southwest on Table Bay: founded in 1652, the first White settlement in southern Africa; important port. Pop: 3 740 026 (2011)
- cape work — the skillful practice of a bullfighter in using a cape to maneuver a bull.
- cape york — the northernmost point of the Australian mainland, in N Queensland on the Torres Strait at the tip of Cape York Peninsula (a peninsula between the Coral Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria)
- cape-nome — a seaport in W Alaska.
- capocchia — a fool
- caponette — a capon produced by the administration of a synthetic sex hormone.
- caponized — Simple past tense and past participle of caponize.
- caporetto — Italian village (now in Slovenia): scene of a battle of WWI in which the Italian army was defeated by Austro-German forces (1917)
- capotasto — capo1 .
- capriccio — a lively piece composed freely and without adhering to the rules for any specific musical form
- capricorn — Capricorn is one of the twelve signs of the zodiac. Its symbol is a goat. People who are born approximately between the 22nd of December and the 19th of January come under this sign.
- caprifole — honeysuckle
- capriform — resembling a goat
- caprioled — Simple past tense and past participle of capriole.
- caprioles — Plural form of capriole.
- capsomere — any of the protein units that together form the capsid of a virus
- capstones — Plural form of capstone.
- captioned — Simple past tense and past participle of caption.
- captopril — an ACE inhibitor used to treat high blood pressure and congestive heart failure
- car phone — A car phone is a mobile phone, especially one which is designed to be used in a car.
- cardphone — a public telephone operated by the insertion of a phonecard instead of coins
- carpaccio — an Italian dish of thin slices of raw meat or fish
- carpology — the branch of botany concerned with the study of fruits and seeds
- carpooled — Simple past tense and past participle of carpool.
- carpooler — a member of a carpool
- cartopper — an object, esp a small boat, designed to be transported on top of a vehicle
- caryopses — Plural form of caryopsis.
- caryopsis — a dry seedlike fruit having the pericarp fused to the seed coat of the single seed: produced by the grasses
- cash crop — A cash crop is a crop that is grown in order to be sold.
- cashpoint — A cashpoint is the same as a cash dispenser.
- cataphora — the use of a word such as a pronoun that has the same reference as a word used subsequently in the same discourse
- catchpole — (in medieval England) a sheriff's officer who arrested debtors
- 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.
- cellphone — A cellphone is the same as a cellular phone.
- celoscope — an instrument for examining a body cavity.
- cenotaphs — Plural form of cenotaph.
- cepaceous — having an onion-like smell or taste
- cephaloid — Shaped like the head or the brain.
- cephalous — having a head
- cerograph — an engraving or writing on wax
- ceropegia — any of various, usually climbing or trailing, plants of the genus Ceropegia, native to the Old World tropics and often cultivated as houseplants.
- cespitose — growing in dense, matlike clumps without creeping stems, as moss, grass, etc.
- cespitous — Turfy; resembling turf.
- cesspools — Plural form of cesspool.
- chaetopod — any annelid worm of the classes Oligochaeta or Polychaeta
- champions — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of champion.