9-letter words containing e, l, p
- champleve — of or relating to a process of enamelling by which grooves are cut into a metal base and filled with enamel colours
- chapleted — wearing a wreath or garland on the head
- chapteral — of or pertaining to a chapter
- chiltepin — a variety of chilli pepper, Capsicum annuum, growing wild in Mexico and the south-western United States
- chipotles — Plural form of chipotle.
- chippable — having the ability to be reduced to small pieces
- cinephile — a person who loves films and cinema
- cisalpine — on this (the southern) side of the Alps, as viewed from Rome
- clapbread — a type of cake made from oatmeal
- clay pipe — a pipe whose bowl is made of fired clay
- cleft lip — a congenital split in the upper lip, often associated with a cleft palate
- cleopatra — a yellow butterfly, Gonepteryx cleopatra, the male of which has its wings flushed with orange
- clepsydra — an ancient device for measuring time by the flow of water or mercury through a small aperture
- clerkship — The position or status of a clerk, especially in the legal profession.
- clipsheet — a sheet of paper with text printed on one side only
- 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.
- clozapine — a sedative used to treat schizophrenia
- clumpiest — Superlative form of clumpy.
- codevelop — to develop jointly
- cold pole — the location in the northern or southern hemisphere having the coldest annual mean temperature in that hemisphere.
- cold type — typesetting done by a method other than the casting of molten type
- coldsleep — A deep sleep during which the body is stored at very cold temperature, to preserve it; cryogenic sleep.
- coleopter — an aircraft that has an annular wing with the fuselage and engine on the centre line
- coliphage — a bacteriophage
- collapsed — Simple past tense and past participle of collapse.
- collapses — Plural form of collapse.
- collotype — a method of lithographic printing from a flat surface of hardened gelatine: used mainly for fine-detail reproduction in monochrome or colour
- coloscope — a flexible, lighted, tubular instrument using fiber optics to permit visualization of the colon.
- compelled — to force or drive, especially to a course of action: His disregard of the rules compels us to dismiss him.
- compeller — to force or drive, especially to a course of action: His disregard of the rules compels us to dismiss him.
- compilate — (rare) To put together; to assemble; to make by gathering things from various sources.
- compilers — Plural form of compiler.
- compleats — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compleat.
- completed — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- completer — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- completes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of complete.
- complex's — composed of many interconnected parts; compound; composite: a complex highway system.
- complexed — composed of many interconnected parts; compound; composite: a complex highway system.
- complexes — Plural form of complex.
- complexly — composed of many interconnected parts; compound; composite: a complex highway system.
- complexus — a complicated whole made up of interconnected or related parts
- compliers — a person, group, etc., that complies.
- comptable — countable
- comptible — (obsolete) accountable; responsible.
- copiloted — Simple past tense and past participle of copilot.
- copolymer — a chemical compound of high molecular weight formed by uniting the molecules of two or more different compounds (monomers)
- coprolite — any of various rounded stony nodules thought to be the fossilized faeces of Palaeozic-Cenozoic vertebrates
- copulated — Simple past tense and past participle of copulate.
- copulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of copulate.