9-letter words containing p, a, n, e
- bee plant — any of various plants much visited by bees for nectar and pollen
- belly pan — a plate enclosing the bottom of an automotive vehicle or the like below the chassis.
- bespangle — to cover or adorn with or as if with spangles
- bioparent — a biological parent
- bioweapon — Bioweapons are biological weapons.
- bipinnate — (of pinnate leaves) having the leaflets themselves divided into smaller leaflets
- bit plane — (graphics) (Or "bitplane") The memory in a graphic display device which holds a complete one-bit-per-pixel image. Several bit planes may be used in conjunction to give more bits per pixel or to overlay several images or mask one with another. "Bit plane" may be used as a synonym for "bitmap", though the latter suggests the data itself rather than the memory and also suggests a graphics file format.
- bonaparte — Jérôme (ʒerom), brother of Napoleon I. 1784–1860, king of Westphalia (1807–13)
- breastpin — a brooch worn on the breast, esp to close a garment
- 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
- camp oven — a metal pot or box with a heavy lid, used for baking over an open fire
- campanile — (esp in Italy) a bell tower, not usually attached to another building
- 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
- campiness — the quality of being campy
- campodean — a campodeid.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- caponette — a capon produced by the administration of a synthetic sex hormone.
- caponized — Simple past tense and past participle of caponize.
- capstones — Plural form of capstone.
- captained — Simple past tense and past participle of captain.
- 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
- care plan — a plan for the medical care of a particular patient or the welfare of a child in care
- 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.
- carpeting — You use carpeting to refer to a carpet, or to the type of material that is used to make carpets.
- cataplane — an aircraft designed to be launched by a catapult.
- cathepsin — a proteolytic enzyme responsible for the autolysis of cells after death
- catnapped — Simple past tense and past participle of catnap.
- catnapper — a person who catnaps
- cefcapene — A particular third-generation cephalosporin antibiotic.
- cenotaphs — Plural form of cenotaph.
- cephalins — Plural form of cephalin.
- champagne — Champagne is an expensive French white wine with bubbles in. It is often drunk to celebrate something.
- change up — When you change up, you move the gear lever in the vehicle you are driving in order to use a higher gear.
- change-up — a temporary shift or variation in a normal routine or regular pattern of activity: Reading a mystery novel has been a real change of pace for me.
- changeups — Plural form of changeup.
- 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.
- cheapened — Simple past tense and past participle of cheapen.