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7-letter words containing c, p, o

  • ciphony — the process of enciphering audio information to produce encrypted speech
  • cipolin — an Italian marble with alternating white and green streaks
  • clap on — to don hastily
  • clapton — Eric. born 1945, British rock guitarist, noted for his virtuoso style, his work with the Yardbirds (1963–65), Cream (1966–68), and, with Derek and the Dominos, the album Layla (1970); later solo work includes Unplugged (1992)
  • clip on — designed to be clipped on easily, especially by a self-attached clip: a clip-on bow tie.
  • clip-on — A clip-on object is designed to be fastened to something by means of a clip.
  • clog up — When something clogs up a place, or when it clogs up, it becomes blocked so that little or nothing can pass through.
  • clomped — Simple past tense and past participle of clomp.
  • clopped — Simple past tense and past participle of clop.
  • clopper — (My Little Pony fandom slang) One who engages in clopping.
  • closeup — a photograph taken at close range or with a long focal-length lens, on a relatively large scale.
  • co-oped — a cooperative store, dwelling, program, etc.
  • coapted — to bring close together: The surgeons coapted the edges of the wound.
  • cob pie — a deep-dish pie, especially an apple cobbler.
  • cock up — If you cock something up, you ruin it by doing something wrong.
  • cockpit — In an aeroplane or racing car, the cockpit is the part where the pilot or driver sits.
  • cockups — Plural form of cockup.
  • cocopan — (in South Africa) a small wagon running on narrow-gauge railway lines used in mines
  • coin-op — a launderette or other service installation in which the machines are operated by the insertion of coins
  • collops — Plural form of collop.
  • colpoda — any ciliated protozoan of the genus Colpoda, common in fresh water.
  • come up — If someone comes up or comes up to you, they approach you until they are standing close to you.
  • compact — Compact things are small or take up very little space. You use this word when you think this is a good quality.
  • compand — to compress (a transmitter signal) before transmission and then expand it after transmission
  • compane — (obsolete) To associate with.
  • company — A company is a business organization that makes money by selling goods or services.
  • compare — When you compare things, you consider them and discover the differences or similarities between them.
  • compart — to divide into parts
  • compass — A compass is an instrument that you use for finding directions. It has a dial and a magnetic needle that always points to the north.
  • compast — rounded
  • compear — to appear in court
  • compeer — a person of equal rank, status, or ability; peer
  • compels — Force or oblige (someone) to do something.
  • compend — a compendium
  • compere — A compere is the person who introduces the people taking part in a radio or television show or a live show.
  • compete — If you compete in a contest or a game, you take part in it.
  • compile — When you compile something such as a report, book, or programme, you produce it by collecting and putting together many pieces of information.
  • comping — a ticket, book, service, etc., provided free of charge to specially chosen recipients.
  • complex — Something that is complex has many different parts, and is therefore often difficult to understand.
  • complin — Alternative form of compline.
  • complot — a plot or conspiracy
  • compony — made up of alternating metal and colour, colour and fur, or fur and metal
  • comport — If you comport yourself in a particular way, you behave in that way.
  • compose — The things that something is composed of are its parts or members. The separate things that compose something are the parts or members that form it.
  • compost — Compost is a mixture of decayed plants and vegetable waste which is added to the soil to help plants grow.
  • compote — Compote is fruit stewed with sugar or in syrup.
  • compter — a prison, esp one in which the inmates are debtors
  • compton — Arthur Holly. 1892–1962, US physicist, noted for his research on X-rays, gamma rays, and nuclear energy: Nobel prize for physics 1927
  • compute — To compute a quantity or number means to calculate it.
  • comsymp — a Communist Party sympathizer
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