9-letter words containing p, a, c
- corporeal — Corporeal means involving or relating to the physical world rather than the spiritual world.
- corposant — Saint Elmo's fire
- cosplayer — One who takes part in cosplay.
- cparaops5 — (language) A parallel version of OPS5 written at CMU, in C and compiling to C. CParaOps5 is available for Unix, Mach, Encore Multimaxen, and Sequent.
- crabapple — Any of the wild species of apple tree, genus Malus, which generally yield small, bitter fruit (in comparison to domestic apples, Malus domestica).
- crackpots — Plural form of crackpot.
- crampbark — a large deciduous shrub, Viburnum opulus, of the Caprifoliaceae family, native to Europe and eastern parts of North America
- crampfish — a ray of the order Torpediniformes with electric organs on either side of its head
- cramponee — (heraldry) Having a cramp or square piece at the end; said of a cross.
- crankpins — Plural form of crankpin.
- crapelike — resembling crape
- crappiest — Superlative form of crappy.
- crapshoot — If you describe something as a crapshoot, you mean that what happens depends entirely on luck or chance.
- crapulent — given to or resulting from intemperance
- crapulous — characterized by intemperance, esp. in drinking; debauched
- crash pad — a place to live or sleep temporarily
- 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.
- creamcups — a Californian papaveraceous plant, Platystemon californicus, with small cream-coloured or yellow flowers on long flower stalks
- creampuff — puff pastry filled with cream
- crease up — If someone or something makes you crease up or creases you up, they make you laugh a lot.
- cremocarp — any fruit consisting of two united carpels which hang from a supporting axis
- crepitant — to make a crackling sound; crackle.
- crepitate — to make a rattling or crackling sound; rattle or crackle
- crew pram — concurrent read, exclusive write PRAM.
- crispated — Crispate.
- crisphead — a variety of lettuce with a dense cabbage-like head and mild crunchy leaves
- crorepati — (in India) a person whose assets are worth at least one crore or 10 million rupees
- crow pram — concurrent read, owner write PRAM.
- crown cap — an airtight metal seal crimped on the top of most bottled beers, ciders, mineral waters, etc
- cryptadia — a collection of things to be kept hidden
- cryptical — mysterious in meaning; puzzling; ambiguous: a cryptic message.
- cryptogam — (in former plant classification schemes) any organism that does not produce seeds, including algae, fungi, mosses, and ferns
- culpatory — expressing blame
- cup coral — any of several species of coral in which the polyp forms and houses itself in a cup-shaped depression in the skeleton.
- cup final — the final of any cup competition
- cup plant — a hardy composite plant, Silphium perfoliatum, of eastern North America, having large yellow flower heads and opposite leaves that envelop the stem, forming a cup.
- cup shake — wind shake.
- cupbearer — an attendant who fills and serves wine cups, as in a royal household
- cupboards — Plural form of cupboard.
- cupboardy — (rare) Cupboardlike: for example small, fusty or poorly lit.
- cupolated — having a cupola or cupolas.
- curlpaper — a strip of paper used to roll up and set a section of hair, usually wetted, into a curl
- cuspidate — having a cusp or cusps
- cyanotype — a process of photographic printing, used chiefly in copying architectural and mechanical drawings, that produces a blue line on a white background.
- cyclepath — a special path for the exclusive use of cyclists
- cyclopean — of, relating to, or resembling the Cyclops
- cyclopian — having only one eye
- cymograph — an instrument for tracing the outline of an architectural moulding
- cymophane — a yellow or green opalescent variety of chrysoberyl
- cystocarp — a reproductive body in red algae, developed after fertilization and consisting of filaments bearing carpospores