9-letter words containing l, c, p
- 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.
- clickwrap — an agreement made by a computer user through clicking on a particular button onscreen
- clip bond — a form of brickwork raking bond for a facing of all stretchers, in which the stretchers are tied in to the backing every few courses by diagonally set bricks that project from the backing into angles made by cutting off the concealed corners of the face brick.
- clip-clop — the sound made by a horse's hooves
- clipboard — A clipboard is a board with a clip at the top. It is used to hold together pieces of paper that you need to carry around, and provides a firm base for writing.
- clippings — A small piece trimmed from something.
- 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.
- clop-clop — a clattering sound of repeated clops.
- cloth cap — A cloth cap is a soft flat cap with a stiff, curved part at the front called a peak. Cloth caps are usually worn by men.
- cloth-cap — pertaining to or characteristic of the working class.
- clozapine — a sedative used to treat schizophrenia
- clumpiest — Superlative form of clumpy.
- codevelop — to develop jointly
- cold pack — a method of lowering the body temperature by wrapping a person in a sheet soaked in cold water
- cold pole — the location in the northern or southern hemisphere having the coldest annual mean temperature in that hemisphere.
- cold snap — A cold snap is a short period of cold and icy weather.
- cold spot — an area where house prices are stable and properties are slow to sell
- cold type — typesetting done by a method other than the casting of molten type
- cold-pack — to place a cold pack on: to cold-pack a feverish patient.
- 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
- collapsar — a collapsed star, either a white dwarf, neutron star, or black hole
- 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
- collotypy — the process of collotype
- colophons — Plural form of colophon.
- colophony — rosin
- coloscope — a flexible, lighted, tubular instrument using fiber optics to permit visualization of the colon.
- coloscopy — colonoscopy.
- colpotomy — a surgical incision into the wall of the vagina
- compactly — joined or packed together; closely and firmly united; dense; solid: compact soil.
- 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.
- compiling — Present participle of compile.
- complains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of complain.
- complaint — A complaint is a statement in which you express your dissatisfaction with a particular situation.
- 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.