9-letter words containing c, u, s, p
- cost-push — of or relating to cost-push inflation: a proponent of the cost-push theory.
- countship — the rank or position of a count.
- couplings — Plural form of coupling.
- coupstick — (historical) A stick or switch used among some Native Americans for making or counting a coup.
- courtship — Courtship is the activity of courting or the time during which a man and a woman are courting.
- crapulous — characterized by intemperance, esp. in drinking; debauched
- creamcups — a Californian papaveraceous plant, Platystemon californicus, with small cream-coloured or yellow flowers on long flower stalks
- crease up — If someone or something makes you crease up or creases you up, they make you laugh a lot.
- crepuscle — twilight
- crop-dust — to subject (a field) to crop-dusting.
- croupiers — Plural form of croupier.
- cup shake — wind shake.
- cupboards — Plural form of cupboard.
- cuppiness — The state or quality of being cuppy.
- cupressus — any tree of the genus Cupressus
- curseperl — A curses library for Perl by the author of Perl, Larry Wall <[email protected]>. It comes with Perl.
- cuspidate — having a cusp or cusps
- cuspidors — Plural form of cuspidor.
- cutpurses — Plural form of cutpurse.
- davis cup — an annual international lawn tennis championship for men's teams
- decouples — Separate, disengage, or dissociate (something) from something else.
- decus cpp — An almost-ANSI C preprocessor by Martin Minow. It is shipped with X11R5 (contrib/util/cpp) because some systems don't have a working cpp. It runs on VMS (Vax C, Decus C), RSX-11M, RSTS/E, P/OS, RT11, A/UX and Apollo Domain/IX 9.6 and is highly portable.
- docu-soap — a television documentary series in which the lives of the people filmed are presented as entertainment or drama
- docusoaps — Plural form of docusoap.
- duck soup — something that is easy to do or accomplish: Fixing the car will be duck soup for anyone with the right tools.
- dump scow — a barge for disposing of garbage, dredged material, etc., having hoppers in the bottom through which such cargo can be dumped.
- epictetus — ?50–?120 ad, Greek Stoic philosopher, who stressed self-renunciation and the brotherhood of man
- epicurism — Epicureanism.
- eucalypts — Plural form of eucalypt.
- euphenics — the study of biological improvement
- euplastic — healing quickly and well
- eurocorps — a multinational army corps based in Strasbourg and participated in by mainly EU countries
- haruspicy — divination by a haruspex.
- humpbacks — Plural form of humpback.
- hypocaust — a hollow space or system of channels in the floor or walls of some ancient Roman buildings that provided a central heating system by receiving and distributing the heat from a furnace.
- leucippus — 5th century bc Greek philosopher, who originated the atomist theory of matter, developed by his disciple, Democritus
- muckheaps — Plural form of muckheap.
- mutoscope — A motion-picture device of the late nineteenth century, to be viewed by one person at a time through a peephole.
- noncampus — not located on a campus of a university, corporation, or any other business or organization
- nullspace — (math) The kernel of a linear map between two vector spaces or two modules.
- occupants — Plural form of occupant.
- occupiers — Plural form of occupier.
- octopuses — Plural form of octopus.
- octuplets — Plural form of octuplet.
- on-campus — on the area of land that contains the main buildings of a university or college
- ophiuchus — a large constellation lying on the celestial equator between Hercules and Scorpius and containing the dark nebula, Ophiuchus Nebula
- opuscules — Plural form of opuscule.
- opusculum — opuscule.
- pachomius — Saint, a.d. 292?–348? Egyptian ascetic: founder of the cenobitical form of monasticism.
- paracusia — defective hearing.