9-letter words containing o, p, n
- campagnol — (archaic) A mouse (Arvicala agrestis) that often does great damage in fields and gardens, by feeding on roots and seeds.
- campesino — a Latin American rural peasant
- campodean — a campodeid.
- canephora — Caryatid that supports a basket on her head.
- canonship — the position or office of canon; canonry.
- canopying — The activity of going through the canopy of a forest on a zipline.
- cantalope — Misspelling of cantaloupe.
- caparison — a decorated covering for a horse or other animal, esp (formerly) for a warhorse
- cape horn — a rocky headland on an island at the extreme S tip of South America, belonging to Chile. It is notorious for gales and heavy seas; until the building of the Panama Canal it lay on the only sea route between the Atlantic and the Pacific
- cape town — the legislative capital of South Africa and capital of Western Cape province, situated in the southwest on Table Bay: founded in 1652, the first White settlement in southern Africa; important port. Pop: 3 740 026 (2011)
- cape-nome — a seaport in W Alaska.
- caponette — a capon produced by the administration of a synthetic sex hormone.
- caponized — Simple past tense and past participle of caponize.
- capricorn — Capricorn is one of the twelve signs of the zodiac. Its symbol is a goat. People who are born approximately between the 22nd of December and the 19th of January come under this sign.
- capstones — Plural form of capstone.
- captioned — Simple past tense and past participle of caption.
- car phone — A car phone is a mobile phone, especially one which is designed to be used in a car.
- cardphone — a public telephone operated by the insertion of a phonecard instead of coins
- cashpoint — A cashpoint is the same as a cash dispenser.
- cellphone — A cellphone is the same as a cellular phone.
- cenotaphs — Plural form of cenotaph.
- champions — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of champion.
- chaperone — A chaperone is someone who accompanies another person somewhere in order to make sure that they do not come to any harm.
- chaperons — Plural form of chaperon.
- chioppine — Alternative form of chopine.
- chop down — If you chop down a tree, you cut through its trunk with an axe so that it falls to the ground.
- clampdown — A clampdown is a sudden restriction on a particular activity by a government or other authority.
- 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.
- 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.