9-letter words containing c, y, p
- cityscape — an urban landscape; view of a city
- clay pipe — a pipe whose bowl is made of fired clay
- clepsydra — an ancient device for measuring time by the flow of water or mercury through a small aperture
- 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.
- cohyponym — a word that is one of multiple hyponyms of another word
- cold type — typesetting done by a method other than the casting of molten type
- collotype — a method of lithographic printing from a flat surface of hardened gelatine: used mainly for fine-detail reproduction in monochrome or colour
- collotypy — the process of collotype
- colophony — rosin
- coloscopy — colonoscopy.
- colpotomy — a surgical incision into the wall of the vagina
- compacity — Any of several technical measures of compactness, especially, in a granular medium (e.g. sand), the volume fraction that is filled.
- compactly — joined or packed together; closely and firmly united; dense; solid: compact soil.
- company's — a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people.
- complexly — composed of many interconnected parts; compound; composite: a complex highway system.
- complying — Present participle of comply.
- coparceny — (legal) An equal share of an inheritance.
- copayment — a fee paid by a subscriber to a service for the use of additional services not covered by the subscription
- copiously — large in quantity or number; abundant; plentiful: copious amounts of food.
- copolymer — a chemical compound of high molecular weight formed by uniting the molecules of two or more different compounds (monomers)
- coprology — preoccupation with excrement
- copy desk — a desk where copy is edited
- copy down — If you copy down something that someone has said or written, you write it down exactly.
- copy shop — a business that provides copies of documents or prints documents
- copy-edit — to prepare (copy) for printing by styling, correcting, etc
- copy-read — to work on (copy) as a copyreader.
- copy-text — a manuscript or earlier published version of a text, used as the basis for an emended, scholarly edition
- copybooks — Plural form of copybook.
- copybroke — (security) /kop'ee-brohk/ (Or "copywronged" - a play on "copyright") 1. Used to describe an instance of a copy-protected program that has been "broken"; that is, a copy with the copy-protection scheme disabled or removed. 2. Copy-protected software which is unusable because of some bit-rot or bug that has confused the copy protection. 3. Used to describe data damaged because of a side effect of a copy protection system.
- copyedits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of copyedit.
- copyfight — the conflict between copyright holders and other individuals over the use, distribution, and replication of copyright materials
- copyholds — Plural form of copyhold.
- copypasta — (Internet slang) A block of text which has been copied and pasted from somewhere else.
- copyright — If someone has copyright on a piece of writing or music, it is illegal to reproduce or perform it without their permission.
- copytaker — (esp in a newspaper office) a person employed to type reports as journalists dictate them over the telephone
- copywrite — (rare) To write the copy (or text) of an advertisement; to have a job as a copywriter.
- corporify — to embody
- corruptly — guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
- coryphene — either of two large marine percoid fishes, Coryphaena hippurus or C. equisetis, that resemble the cetacean dolphins and have an iridescent coloration
- cosplayer — One who takes part in cosplay.
- cowboy up — to adopt a tough approach or course of action
- crazy top — a disease of cotton, corn, etc., characterized by abnormal branching and small, misshapen leaves in the upper part of the plant, caused by water shortage, organic deficiencies in the soil, or unknown causes.
- cross-ply — (of a motor tyre) having the fabric cords in the outer casing running diagonally to stiffen the sidewalls
- cryophile — (biology) An organism that thrives at low temperatures.
- cryophyte — an organism, esp an alga or moss, that grows on snow or ice
- cryoprobe — a surgical instrument with an extremely cold tip, used in cryosurgery to destroy tissue
- cryoscope — any instrument used to determine the freezing point of a substance
- cryoscopy — the determination of freezing points, esp for the determination of molecular weights by measuring the lowering of the freezing point of a solvent when a known quantity of solute is added
- cryosleep — (science fiction) A deep sleep during which the body is stored at very cold temperature, to preserve it; cryogenic sleep.
- cryptadia — a collection of things to be kept hidden