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9-letter words containing p, c, r

  • becripple — to make or cause to become crippled.
  • bid price — The bid price of a particular stock or share is the price that investors are willing to pay for it.
  • biopiracy — the use of wild plants by international companies to develop medicines, without recompensing the countries from which they are taken
  • bishopric — A bishopric is the area for which a bishop is responsible, or the rank or office of being a bishop.
  • borescope — a long narrow optical device used to inspect the interior of a tight space
  • brat pack — A brat pack is a group of young people, especially actors or writers, who are popular or successful at the moment.
  • buttercup — A buttercup is a small plant with bright yellow flowers.
  • byproduct — A byproduct is something that is produced during the manufacture or processing of another product.
  • 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
  • calc-spar — calcite.
  • calipered — Simple past tense and past participle of caliper.
  • callipers — an instrument for measuring internal or external dimensions, consisting of two steel legs hinged together
  • calpurnia — flourished 1st century b.c, third wife of Julius Caesar 59–44. Compare Cornelia (def 2), Pompeia.
  • 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.
  • campfires — Plural form of campfire.
  • camporees — Plural form of camporee.
  • campshirt — a loose, short-sleeved shirt or blouse with an open collar
  • canephora — Caryatid that supports a basket on her head.
  • cap screw — a screwed bolt with a cylindrical head having a hexagonal recess. The bolt is turned using a wrench of hexagonal cross section
  • capacitor — A capacitor is a device for accumulating electric charge.
  • caparison — a decorated covering for a horse or other animal, esp (formerly) for a warhorse
  • 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 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)
  • capernaum — a ruined town in N Israel, on the NW shore of the Sea of Galilee: closely associated with Jesus Christ during his ministry
  • capillary — Capillaries are tiny blood vessels in your body.
  • capitular — of or associated with a cathedral chapter
  • caporetto — Italian village (now in Slovenia): scene of a battle of WWI in which the Italian army was defeated by Austro-German forces (1917)
  • capriccio — a lively piece composed freely and without adhering to the rules for any specific musical form
  • capricorn — Capricorn is one of the twelve signs of the zodiac. Its symbol is a goat. People who are born approximately between the 22nd of December and the 19th of January come under this sign.
  • caprifigs — Plural form of caprifig.
  • caprifole — honeysuckle
  • capriform — resembling a goat
  • 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
  • capsulary — Archaic form of capsular.
  • captainry — captainship
  • captopril — an ACE inhibitor used to treat high blood pressure and congestive heart failure
  • capturers — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
  • capturing — Present participle of capture.
  • capybaras — Plural form of capybara.
  • car phone — A car phone is a mobile phone, especially one which is designed to be used in a car.
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