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9-letter words containing o, c, t, p

  • corrupter — guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
  • corruptly — guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
  • corruptor — guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
  • cost-plus — A cost-plus basis for a contract about work to be done is one in which the buyer agrees to pay the seller or contractor all the cost plus a profit.
  • cost-push — of or relating to cost-push inflation: a proponent of the cost-push theory.
  • countship — the rank or position of a count.
  • coupstick — (historical) A stick or switch used among some Native Americans for making or counting a coup.
  • courtship — Courtship is the activity of courting or the time during which a man and a woman are courting.
  • cow pilot — sergeant major (sense 3)
  • crackpots — Plural form of crackpot.
  • crapshoot — If you describe something as a crapshoot, you mean that what happens depends entirely on luck or chance.
  • crazy top — a disease of cotton, corn, etc., characterized by abnormal branching and small, misshapen leaves in the upper part of the plant, caused by water shortage, organic deficiencies in the soil, or unknown causes.
  • cristophe — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), ("Henri I"I) 1767–1820, Haitian revolutionary general, born in Grenada: king 1811–20.
  • crock pot — slow cooker
  • crock-pot — an electric cooker consisting of an earthenware pot inside a container with a heating element that maintains a steady low temperature, used as for simmering stews for several hours
  • crockpots — Plural form of crockpot.
  • crop-dust — to subject (a field) to crop-dusting.
  • crorepati — (in India) a person whose assets are worth at least one crore or 10 million rupees
  • crosspost — (computing) An electronic message posted to multiple newsgroups simultaneously.
  • crowsteps — Plural form of crowstep.
  • cryophyte — an organism, esp an alga or moss, that grows on snow or ice
  • cryptogam — (in former plant classification schemes) any organism that does not produce seeds, including algae, fungi, mosses, and ferns
  • cryptonym — a code name or secret name
  • 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
  • culpatory — expressing blame
  • cup towel — a dishtowel.
  • cupertino — a town in W California.
  • cupolated — having a cupola or cupolas.
  • curly top — a disease of plants, especially beets, characterized by puckered or cupped leaves and stunting or distortion, caused by a virus, Ruga verrucosans.
  • cyanotype — a process of photographic printing, used chiefly in copying architectural and mechanical drawings, that produces a blue line on a white background.
  • cystocarp — a reproductive body in red algae, developed after fertilization and consisting of filaments bearing carpospores
  • cytopathy — a disease or disorder of a cell
  • cytopenia — a condition characterized by a deficiency of a type of blood cells
  • cytophagy — the ingestion of cells by other cells.
  • cytoplasm — the protoplasm of a cell contained within the cell membrane but excluding the nucleus: contains organelles, vesicles, and other inclusions
  • cytoplast — the intact cytoplasm of a single cell
  • deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
  • deceptory — inclined to deceive
  • depiction — A depiction of something is a picture or a written description of it.
  • diatropic — the tendency of some plant organs to take a transverse position to the line of action of an outside stimulus.
  • dichoptic — having the eyes distinctly separate
  • dioptrics — the branch of geometrical optics dealing with the formation of images by lenses.
  • diplontic — (of an alga or other lower plant) having a life cycle in which the main form, except for the gametes, is diploid.
  • dot pitch — (hardware)   The distance between a dot and the closest dot of the same colour (red, green or blue) on a color CRT. Dot pitch is typically from 0.28 to 0.51 mm but large presentation monitors may go up to 1.0 mm. The smaller the dot pitch, the crisper the image, 0.31 or less provides a sharp image, especially when displaying text. Dot pitch measurements between conventional tubes and Sony's Trinitron tubes are roughly, but not exactly comparable. Sony's CRTs use vertical stripes, not dots, and its measurement is the distance between stripes, not the diagonal distance between dots.
  • dropcloth — A large piece of plastic or canvas put over something to protect it from construction debris or paint.
  • ectomorph — a person of the ectomorphic type.
  • ectophyte — a parasitic plant growing on an animal or another plant.
  • ectoplasm — Biology. the outer portion of the cytoplasm of a cell. Compare endoplasm.
  • ectoproct — bryozoan; formerly, one of two broad types of bryozoan.
  • ectropion — A condition, typically a consequence of advanced age, in which the eyelid is turned outward away from the eyeball.
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