9-letter words containing p, a, c
- c & f — cost and freight
- c & g — City and Guilds
- c & m — care and maintenance
- c & w — country and western
- c-spanner — a sickle-shaped spanner having a projection at the end of the curve, used for turning large narrow nuts that have an indentation into which the projection on the spanner fits
- cachepots — Plural form of cachepot.
- cacoepist — One who engages in cacoepy, especially frequently.
- cacophony — You can describe a loud, unpleasant mixture of sounds as a cacophony.
- cacotopia — a dystopia
- cadetship — a student in a national service academy or private military school or on a training ship.
- cajeputol — cineole.
- cajuputol — a colorless, oily, slightly water-soluble liquid terpene ether, C 10 H 18 O, having a camphorlike odor and a pungent, spicy, cooling taste, found in eucalyptus, cajeput, and other essential oils: used in flavoring, perfumery, and medicine chiefly as an expectorant.
- cake shop — a shop that sells cakes
- calc-spar — calcite.
- calipered — Simple past tense and past participle of caliper.
- caliphate — the office, jurisdiction, or reign of a caliph
- call slip — a form for requesting a library book by title and call number
- call upon — to cry out in a loud voice; shout: He called her name to see if she was home.
- calliopes — Plural form of calliope.
- callipash — the part of a turtle next to the upper shield, consisting of a greenish gelatinous substance, considered a delicacy.
- callipers — an instrument for measuring internal or external dimensions, consisting of two steel legs hinged together
- callippus — flourished 4th century b.c, Greek astronomer.
- calotypes — Plural form of calotype.
- calpurnia — flourished 1st century b.c, third wife of Julius Caesar 59–44. Compare Cornelia (def 2), Pompeia.
- cam plant — any plant that undergoes a form of photosynthesis known as crassulacean acid metabolism, in which carbon dioxide is taken up only at night
- camp oven — a metal pot or box with a heavy lid, used for baking over an open fire
- camp site — a place used or suitable for camping.
- campagnol — (archaic) A mouse (Arvicala agrestis) that often does great damage in fields and gardens, by feeding on roots and seeds.
- campaigns — Plural form of campaign.
- campanile — (esp in Italy) a bell tower, not usually attached to another building
- campanist — an expert on bells
- campanula — any N temperate plant of the campanulaceous genus Campanula, typically having blue or white bell-shaped flowers
- campcraft — the skills that are required for camping
- campeador — a champion
- campering — a person who camps out for recreation, especially in the wilderness.
- campervan — (Australia, NZ, British) A vehicle that provides both transport and sleeping accommodation.
- campesino — a Latin American rural peasant
- campfires — Plural form of campfire.
- campiness — the quality of being campy
- campodean — a campodeid.
- campodeid — any of various primitive and wingless insects of the genus Campodea
- camporees — Plural form of camporee.
- campshirt — a loose, short-sleeved shirt or blouse with an open collar
- campsites — Plural form of campsite.
- campstool — a lightweight folding stool
- candlepin — a bowling pin, as used in skittles, tenpin bowling, candlepins, etc
- 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.