9-letter words containing n, s, p
- chippings — Wood chippings or stone chippings are small pieces of wood or stone which are used, for example, to cover surfaces such as paths or roads.
- chirpsing — Present participle of chirpse.
- cisalpine — on this (the southern) side of the Alps, as viewed from Rome
- cispadane — on this (the southern) side of the River Po, as viewed from Rome
- cisplatin — a cytotoxic drug that acts by preventing DNA replication and hence cell division, used in the treatment of tumours, esp of the ovary and testis
- clappings — Plural form of clapping.
- clippings — A small piece trimmed from something.
- cold snap — A cold snap is a short period of cold and icy weather.
- colophons — Plural form of colophon.
- companies — Plural form of company.
- company's — a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people.
- complains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of complain.
- composing — Present participle of compose.
- compounds — Plural form of compound.
- conceptus — any of various products of conception, including the embryo, fetus, and surrounding tissue
- conoscope — a polarizing microscope for giving interference figures and for determining the principal axis of a crystal.
- conscript — A conscript is a person who has been made to join the armed forces of a country.
- conspired — Make secret plans jointly to commit an unlawful or harmful act.
- conspirer — to agree together, especially secretly, to do something wrong, evil, or illegal: They conspired to kill the king.
- conspires — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conspire.
- contempts — Plural form of contempt.
- copestone — a stone used to form a coping
- copresent — to present jointly
- cornpones — Plural form of cornpone.
- corposant — Saint Elmo's fire
- cosponsor — a person, company, or other organization that is one of the two sponsors of an event or initiative
- countship — the rank or position of a count.
- couplings — Plural form of coupling.
- cowperson — (politically correct, rare) a cowhand of any gender.
- crankpins — Plural form of crankpin.
- crepiness — the quality of being crepe-like in texture, esp in skin
- crispness — (especially of food) hard but easily breakable; brittle: crisp toast.
- ctesiphon — an ancient city on the River Tigris about 100 km (60 miles) above Babylon. First mentioned in 221 bc, it was destroyed in the 7th and 8th centuries ad
- cuppiness — The state or quality of being cuppy.
- cyphonism — An ancient form of punishment involving a sort of wooden pillory by which the victim's neck was bent or weighed downward.
- dayspring — the dawn
- delphinus — a small constellation in the N hemisphere, between Pegasus and Sagitta
- depascent — Consuming.
- deplenish — to deprive of contents, such as furniture, stock, etc
- deponents — Plural form of deponent.
- desipient — silly; foolish
- despenser — Hugh le, Earl of Winchester. 1262–1326, English statesman, a favourite of Edward II. Together with his son Hugh, the Younger (?1290–1326), he was executed by the king's enemies
- despising — Present participle of despise.
- despiting — in spite of; notwithstanding.
- desponded — Simple past tense and past participle of despond.
- diapasons — Plural form of diapason.
- diapensia — An evergreen arctic shrub, Diapensia lapponica.
- diaphones — Plural form of diaphone.
- dippiness — Quality of being dippy.
- dipterans — Plural form of dipteran.