9-letter words containing o, n, c, p
- 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.
- clozapine — a sedative used to treat schizophrenia
- co-parent — a divorced or separated parent who shares equally with the other parent in the custody and care of a child.
- coemption — the buying up of the complete supply of a commodity
- cohyponym — a word that is one of multiple hyponyms of another word
- cold snap — A cold snap is a short period of cold and icy weather.
- colophons — Plural form of colophon.
- colophony — rosin
- come upon — If you come upon someone or something, you meet them or find them by chance.
- compagnie — company.
- compander — a system for improving the signal-to-noise ratio of a signal at a transmitter or recorder by first compressing the volume range of the signal and then restoring it to its original amplitude level at the receiving or reproducing apparatus
- companera — (in the southwestern U.S.) a female companion; friend.
- companero — (in the southwestern U.S.) a male companion or partner.
- companied — Simple past tense and past participle of company.
- companies — Plural form of company.
- companion — A companion is someone who you spend time with or who you are travelling with.
- company's — a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people.
- comparing — Present participle of compare.
- compazine — a tranquilizing drug, C28H32ClN3O8S, used to control serious nausea or vomiting and to reduce anxiety
- compendia — a brief treatment or account of a subject, especially an extensive subject; concise treatise: a compendium of medicine.
- compering — a host, master of ceremonies, or the like, especially of a stage revue or television program.
- 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.
- compiegne — a city in N France, on the Oise River: scene of the armistice at the end of World War I (1918) and of the Franco-German armistice of 1940. Pop: 41 714 (2007)
- 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.
- compliant — If you say that someone is compliant, you mean they willingly do what they are asked to do.
- complying — Present participle of comply.
- component — The components of something are the parts that it is made of.
- composing — Present participle of compose.
- compounds — Plural form of compound.
- comprendo — (slang) do you understand?.
- computant — a person who calculates
- computing — Computing is the activity of using a computer and writing programs for it.
- computron — (jargon) /kom'pyoo-tron"/ 1. A notional unit of computing power combining execution speed and storage capacity. E.g. "That machine can't run GNU Emacs, it doesn't have enough computrons!" 2. A mythical subatomic particle that carries computation or information, in much the same way that an electron carries electric charge (see also bogon).
- concepted — a general notion or idea; conception.
- conceptor — a person who generates or conceives ideas or plans.
- 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.
- contemper — to temper (something) by mixing with something of a different nature
- contempts — Plural form of contempt.
- coopering — Present participle of cooper.
- copacking — The manufacture and packaging of a product under contract to a client (and having the client's name/brand on the packaging).
- coparceny — (legal) An equal share of an inheritance.
- copartner — a partner or associate, esp an equal partner in business