9-letter words containing p, a, c, e
- candlepin — a bowling pin, as used in skittles, tenpin bowling, candlepins, etc
- canephora — Caryatid that supports a basket on her head.
- cantalope — Misspelling of cantaloupe.
- cap screw — a screwed bolt with a cylindrical head having a hexagonal recess. The bolt is turned using a wrench of hexagonal cross section
- cap-a-pie — (dressed, armed, etc) from head to foot
- cape cart — a two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle sometimes with a canvas hood
- 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 race — a cape at the SE extremity of Newfoundland, Canada
- cape roca — a cape in SW central Portugal, near Lisbon: the westernmost point of continental Europe
- 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 work — the skillful practice of a bullfighter in using a cape to maneuver a bull.
- cape york — the northernmost point of the Australian mainland, in N Queensland on the Torres Strait at the tip of Cape York Peninsula (a peninsula between the Coral Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria)
- cape-nome — a seaport in W Alaska.
- capellini — a very thin and light pasta that resembles spaghetti
- capernaum — a ruined town in N Israel, on the NW shore of the Sea of Galilee: closely associated with Jesus Christ during his ministry
- capitated — having a fixed upper limit
- caponette — a capon produced by the administration of a synthetic sex hormone.
- caponized — Simple past tense and past participle of caponize.
- caporetto — Italian village (now in Slovenia): scene of a battle of WWI in which the Italian army was defeated by Austro-German forces (1917)
- caprifole — honeysuckle
- caprioled — Simple past tense and past participle of capriole.
- caprioles — Plural form of capriole.
- caprylate — a salt of caprylic acid
- capsomere — any of the protein units that together form the capsid of a virus
- capstones — Plural form of capstone.
- capsulate — within or formed into a capsule
- capsulise — Alt form capsulize.
- capsulize — to state (information) in a highly condensed form
- captained — Simple past tense and past participle of captain.
- captative — (linguistics) Describing a verb (in some languages) that has a specific ending or other marker to indicate a hunting or catching function.
- captioned — Simple past tense and past participle of caption.
- captivate — If you are captivated by someone or something, you find them fascinating and attractive.
- captively — In a captive manner.
- capturers — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- car phone — A car phone is a mobile phone, especially one which is designed to be used in a car.
- carapaced — (of an animal) having a carapace
- carapaces — Plural form of carapace.
- cardphone — a public telephone operated by the insertion of a phonecard instead of coins
- care plan — a plan for the medical care of a particular patient or the welfare of a child in care
- carpellum — (botany) A carpel.
- carpenter — A carpenter is a person whose job is making and repairing wooden things.
- carpentry — Carpentry is the activity of making and repairing wooden things.
- carpetbag — a travelling bag originally made of carpeting
- carpeting — You use carpeting to refer to a carpet, or to the type of material that is used to make carpets.
- carpooled — Simple past tense and past participle of carpool.
- carpooler — a member of a carpool
- cartopper — an object, esp a small boat, designed to be transported on top of a vehicle
- caryopses — Plural form of caryopsis.
- cashed up — having plenty of money
- cassareep — the juice of the bitter cassava root, boiled down to a syrup and used as a flavouring, esp in West Indian cookery