9-letter words containing p, c, e
- clepsydra — an ancient device for measuring time by the flow of water or mercury through a small aperture
- clerkship — The position or status of a clerk, especially in the legal profession.
- clipsheet — a sheet of paper with text printed on one side only
- clodpated — stupid
- 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
- clumpiest — Superlative form of clumpy.
- co-parent — a divorced or separated parent who shares equally with the other parent in the custody and care of a child.
- coadapted — adapted to one another
- codevelop — to develop jointly
- codpieces — Plural form of codpiece.
- coemption — the buying up of the complete supply of a commodity
- coffeepot — A coffeepot is a tall, narrow pot with a spout and a lid, in which coffee is made or served.
- cold pole — the location in the northern or southern hemisphere having the coldest annual mean temperature in that hemisphere.
- cold type — typesetting done by a method other than the casting of molten type
- coldsleep — A deep sleep during which the body is stored at very cold temperature, to preserve it; cryogenic sleep.
- coleopter — an aircraft that has an annular wing with the fuselage and engine on the centre line
- coliphage — a bacteriophage
- collapsed — Simple past tense and past participle of collapse.
- collapses — Plural form of collapse.
- collotype — a method of lithographic printing from a flat surface of hardened gelatine: used mainly for fine-detail reproduction in monochrome or colour
- coloscope — a flexible, lighted, tubular instrument using fiber optics to permit visualization of the colon.
- come upon — If you come upon someone or something, you meet them or find them by chance.
- comp time — Comp time is time off that an employer gives to an employee because the employee has worked overtime. Comp time is short for compensation time.
- compacted — compressed as a result of physical pressure
- compacter — Comparative form of compact.
- compadres — Plural form of compadre.
- 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.
- compassed — Simple past tense and past participle of compass.
- compasses — Plural form of compass.
- compazine — a tranquilizing drug, C28H32ClN3O8S, used to control serious nausea or vomiting and to reduce anxiety
- compeered — an equal in rank, ability, accomplishment, etc.; peer; colleague.
- compelled — to force or drive, especially to a course of action: His disregard of the rules compels us to dismiss him.
- compeller — to force or drive, especially to a course of action: His disregard of the rules compels us to dismiss him.
- 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.
- competing — Competing ideas, requirements, or interests cannot all be right or satisfied at the same time.
- compiegne — a city in N France, on the Oise River: scene of the armistice at the end of World War I (1918) and of the Franco-German armistice of 1940. Pop: 41 714 (2007)
- compilate — (rare) To put together; to assemble; to make by gathering things from various sources.
- compilers — Plural form of compiler.
- compleats — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compleat.
- completed — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- completer — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- completes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of complete.