9-letter words containing p, m
- bump into — If you bump into someone you know, you meet them unexpectedly.
- bumpkinly — like a bumpkin
- bumpology — phrenology
- bumptious — If you say that someone is bumptious, you are criticizing them because they are very pleased with themselves and their opinions.
- c & b — caught and bowled (by)
- c & f — cost and freight
- c & g — City and Guilds
- c & m — care and maintenance
- c & w — country and western
- 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
- cape-nome — a seaport in W Alaska.
- capernaum — a ruined town in N Israel, on the NW shore of the Sea of Galilee: closely associated with Jesus Christ during his ministry
- capitatim — Per head.
- capitulum — a racemose inflorescence in the form of a disc of sessile flowers, the youngest at the centre. It occurs in the daisy and related plants
- capriform — resembling a goat
- capsicums — Plural form of capsicum.
- capsomere — any of the protein units that together form the capsid of a virus
- carpellum — (botany) A carpel.
- cataplasm — a poultice, often medicated
- champagne — Champagne is an expensive French white wine with bubbles in. It is often drunk to celebrate something.
- champaign — an expanse of open level or gently undulating country
- champerty — (formerly) an illegal bargain between a party to litigation and an outsider whereby the latter agrees to pay for the action and thereby share in any proceeds recovered
- champians — Plural form of champian.
- champions — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of champion.
- champlain — Samuel de (samyɛl də). ?1567–1635, French explorer; founder of Quebec (1608) and governor of New France (1633–35)
- champleve — of or relating to a process of enamelling by which grooves are cut into a metal base and filled with enamel colours
- chautemps — Camille [ka-mee-yuh] /kaˈmi yə/ (Show IPA), 1885–1963, French politician: premier 1930, 1933–34, 1937–38.
- chemitype — an obsolete chemical process by which a relief impression was obtained from an engraving or etching
- chemitypy — the process of chemitype
- chempaduk — an evergreen moraceous tree, Artocarpus champeden (or A. integer), of Malaysia, similar to the jackfruit