9-letter words containing h, p, a
- cake shop — a shop that sells cakes
- caliphate — the office, jurisdiction, or reign of a caliph
- callipash — the part of a turtle next to the upper shield, consisting of a greenish gelatinous substance, considered a delicacy.
- campshirt — a loose, short-sleeved shirt or blouse with an open collar
- canephora — Caryatid that supports a basket on her head.
- canonship — the position or office of canon; canonry.
- cape horn — a rocky headland on an island at the extreme S tip of South America, belonging to Chile. It is notorious for gales and heavy seas; until the building of the Panama Canal it lay on the only sea route between the Atlantic and the Pacific
- capocchia — a fool
- capuchins — Plural form of capuchin.
- car phone — A car phone is a mobile phone, especially one which is designed to be used in a car.
- cardphone — a public telephone operated by the insertion of a phonecard instead of coins
- cardpunch — a device, no longer widely used, controlled by a computer, for transferring information from the central processing unit onto punched cards
- cardsharp — a professional card player who cheats
- cash crop — A cash crop is a crop that is grown in order to be sold.
- cash plan — A cash plan is money paid towards the insured’s optical or dental costs, and also admission to a hospital.
- cashed up — having plenty of money
- cashpoint — A cashpoint is the same as a cash dispenser.
- cataphora — the use of a word such as a pronoun that has the same reference as a word used subsequently in the same discourse
- cataphyll — a simplified form of plant leaf, such as a scale leaf or cotyledon
- catch pit — a pit in a drainage system in which matter that might otherwise block a sewer is collected so that it may periodically be removed
- catch-ups — an effort to reach or pass a norm, especially after a period of delay: After the slowdown there was a catch-up in production.
- catchpole — (in medieval England) a sheriff's officer who arrested debtors
- catchpoll — (formerly) a petty officer of justice, especially one arresting persons for debt.
- cathepsin — a proteolytic enzyme responsible for the autolysis of cells after death
- catheptic — of or relating to enzymes that catalyze autolysis in death or pathological conditions
- cenotaphs — Plural form of cenotaph.
- cephalate — (of living organisms) possessing a head or headlike feature
- cephalgia — (medicine) headache.
- cephalins — Plural form of cephalin.
- cephaloid — Shaped like the head or the brain.
- cephalous — having a head
- cerograph — an engraving or writing on wax
- chaetopod — any annelid worm of the classes Oligochaeta or Polychaeta
- chaliapin — Fyodor Ivanovich (ˈfjɔdər iˈvanəvitʃ). 1873–1938, Russian operatic bass singer
- chalkpits — Plural form of chalkpit.
- champagne — Champagne is an expensive French white wine with bubbles in. It is often drunk to celebrate something.
- champaign — an expanse of open level or gently undulating country
- champerty — (formerly) an illegal bargain between a party to litigation and an outsider whereby the latter agrees to pay for the action and thereby share in any proceeds recovered
- champians — Plural form of champian.
- champions — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of champion.
- champlain — Samuel de (samyɛl də). ?1567–1635, French explorer; founder of Quebec (1608) and governor of New France (1633–35)
- champleve — of or relating to a process of enamelling by which grooves are cut into a metal base and filled with enamel colours
- change up — When you change up, you move the gear lever in the vehicle you are driving in order to use a higher gear.
- change-up — a temporary shift or variation in a normal routine or regular pattern of activity: Reading a mystery novel has been a real change of pace for me.
- changeups — Plural form of changeup.
- chaparral — (in the southwestern US) a dense growth of shrubs and trees, esp evergreen oaks
- chapattis — Plural form of chapatti.
- 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.