9-letter words containing p, e, c, o
- caponized — Simple past tense and past participle of caponize.
- caporetto — Italian village (now in Slovenia): scene of a battle of WWI in which the Italian army was defeated by Austro-German forces (1917)
- caprifole — honeysuckle
- caprioled — Simple past tense and past participle of capriole.
- caprioles — Plural form of capriole.
- capsomere — any of the protein units that together form the capsid of a virus
- capstones — Plural form of capstone.
- 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
- carpooled — Simple past tense and past participle of carpool.
- carpooler — a member of a carpool
- cartopper — an object, esp a small boat, designed to be transported on top of a vehicle
- caryopses — Plural form of caryopsis.
- catchpole — (in medieval England) a sheriff's officer who arrested debtors
- cellphone — A cellphone is the same as a cellular phone.
- celoscope — an instrument for examining a body cavity.
- cenotaphs — Plural form of cenotaph.
- cepaceous — having an onion-like smell or taste
- cephaloid — Shaped like the head or the brain.
- cephalous — having a head
- cerograph — an engraving or writing on wax
- ceropegia — any of various, usually climbing or trailing, plants of the genus Ceropegia, native to the Old World tropics and often cultivated as houseplants.
- cespitose — growing in dense, matlike clumps without creeping stems, as moss, grass, etc.
- cespitous — Turfy; resembling turf.
- cesspools — Plural form of cesspool.
- chaetopod — any annelid worm of the classes Oligochaeta or Polychaeta
- 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.
- chaseport — a porthole through which a gun was fired
- chassepot — a breech-loading bolt-action rifle formerly used by the French Army
- cheap out — to take the cheapest option; try to do something as cheaply as possible
- chioppine — Alternative form of chopine.
- chipotles — Plural form of chipotle.
- chiropter — an animal of the order Chiroptera; a bat
- choephori — a tragedy (458 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
- chokedamp — blackdamp
- choose up — to decide on the opposing players, as for an impromptu ballgame
- chop suey — Chop suey is a Chinese-style dish that consists of meat and vegetables that have been stewed together.
- chophouse — a restaurant specializing in steaks, grills, chops, etc
- choppered — Simple past tense and past participle of chopper.
- chopsteak — chopped steak.
- cleopatra — a yellow butterfly, Gonepteryx cleopatra, the male of which has its wings flushed with orange
- 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
- 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.