9-letter words containing c, p, o
- chapbooks — Plural form of chapbook.
- chaperone — A chaperone is someone who accompanies another person somewhere in order to make sure that they do not come to any harm.
- chaperons — Plural form of chaperon.
- 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
- chilopods — Plural form of chilopod.
- chioppine — Alternative form of chopine.
- chip shop — A chip shop is a shop which sells hot food such as fish and chips, fried chicken, sausages, and meat pies. The food is cooked in the shop and people take it away to eat at home or in the street.
- chip shot — a short approach shot to the green, esp one that is lofted
- chipboard — Chipboard is a hard material made out of very small pieces of wood which have been pressed together. It is often used for making doors and furniture.
- chipolata — a small sausage in a narrow casing
- chipotles — Plural form of chipotle.
- chipproof — resistant to chipping.
- chiropody — Chiropody is the professional treatment and care of people's feet.
- chiropter — an animal of the order Chiroptera; a bat
- choephori — a tragedy (458 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
- chokedamp — blackdamp
- choose up — to decide on the opposing players, as for an impromptu ballgame
- chop chop — pidgin English for quickly
- chop down — If you chop down a tree, you cut through its trunk with an axe so that it falls to the ground.
- chop mark — a notch or other mark made in a coin to indicate verification of its authenticity, especially by a banker or merchant in the Far East during the 18th or 19th centuries.
- chop shop — a place where stolen automobiles are dismantled for parts which are sold or used to repair wrecked vehicles which are then illicitly resold
- chop suey — Chop suey is a Chinese-style dish that consists of meat and vegetables that have been stewed together.
- chop-chop — with haste; quickly.
- chopblock — butcher-block.
- chophouse — a restaurant specializing in steaks, grills, chops, etc
- choplogic — excessively complicated argument
- choppered — Simple past tense and past participle of chopper.
- chopsocky — a genre of martial arts film containing superfluous violence
- chopsteak — chopped steak.
- chopstick — Chopsticks are a pair of thin sticks which people in China and the Far East use to eat their food.
- clampdown — A clampdown is a sudden restriction on a particular activity by a government or other authority.
- clapboard — A clapboard building has walls which are covered with long narrow pieces of wood, usually painted white.
- cleopatra — a yellow butterfly, Gonepteryx cleopatra, the male of which has its wings flushed with orange
- clip bond — a form of brickwork raking bond for a facing of all stretchers, in which the stretchers are tied in to the backing every few courses by diagonally set bricks that project from the backing into angles made by cutting off the concealed corners of the face brick.
- clip-clop — the sound made by a horse's hooves
- clipboard — A clipboard is a board with a clip at the top. It is used to hold together pieces of paper that you need to carry around, and provides a firm base for writing.
- 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.
- clop-clop — a clattering sound of repeated clops.
- 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.
- clozapine — a sedative used to treat schizophrenia
- co-parent — a divorced or separated parent who shares equally with the other parent in the custody and care of a child.
- coachwhip — a coachwhip snake
- coadapted — adapted to one another
- cockahoop — Alternative form of cock-a-hoop.
- cockapoos — Plural form of cockapoo.
- cockspurs — Plural form of cockspur.