9-letter words containing o, c, t, p
- catchpole — (in medieval England) a sheriff's officer who arrested debtors
- catchpoll — (formerly) a petty officer of justice, especially one arresting persons for debt.
- catoptric — the branch of optics dealing with the formation of images by mirrors.
- cenotaphs — Plural form of cenotaph.
- cespitose — growing in dense, matlike clumps without creeping stems, as moss, grass, etc.
- cespitous — Turfy; resembling turf.
- chaetopod — any annelid worm of the classes Oligochaeta or Polychaeta
- chaseport — a porthole through which a gun was fired
- chassepot — a breech-loading bolt-action rifle formerly used by the French Army
- cheap out — to take the cheapest option; try to do something as cheaply as possible
- chip shot — a short approach shot to the green, esp one that is lofted
- chipolata — a small sausage in a narrow casing
- chipotles — Plural form of chipotle.
- chiropter — an animal of the order Chiroptera; a bat
- chopsteak — chopped steak.
- chopstick — Chopsticks are a pair of thin sticks which people in China and the Far East use to eat their food.
- cleopatra — a yellow butterfly, Gonepteryx cleopatra, the male of which has its wings flushed with orange
- 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.
- 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.
- co-parent — a divorced or separated parent who shares equally with the other parent in the custody and care of a child.
- coadapted — adapted to one another
- coemption — the buying up of the complete supply of a commodity
- coffeepot — A coffeepot is a tall, narrow pot with a spout and a lid, in which coffee is made or served.
- 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
- coleopter — an aircraft that has an annular wing with the fuselage and engine on the centre line
- 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
- colpotomy — a surgical incision into the wall of the vagina
- comp time — Comp time is time off that an employer gives to an employee because the employee has worked overtime. Comp time is short for compensation time.
- compacity — Any of several technical measures of compactness, especially, in a granular medium (e.g. sand), the volume fraction that is filled.
- compacted — compressed as a result of physical pressure
- compacter — Comparative form of compact.
- compactly — joined or packed together; closely and firmly united; dense; solid: compact soil.
- compactor — a machine that compacts something, esp rubbish
- competent — Someone who is competent is efficient and effective.
- competing — Competing ideas, requirements, or interests cannot all be right or satisfied at the same time.
- compilate — (rare) To put together; to assemble; to make by gathering things from various sources.
- 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.
- compliant — If you say that someone is compliant, you mean they willingly do what they are asked to do.
- complicit — If someone is complicit in a crime or unfair activity, they are involved in it.
- component — The components of something are the parts that it is made of.
- comported — Simple past tense and past participle of comport.
- composest — (archaic) Archaic second-person singular form of compose.