9-letter words containing p, n
- chirpsing — Present participle of chirpse.
- chop down — If you chop down a tree, you cut through its trunk with an axe so that it falls to the ground.
- cinephile — a person who loves films and cinema
- ciphering — calculating
- cisalpine — on this (the southern) side of the Alps, as viewed from Rome
- cispadane — on this (the southern) side of the River Po, as viewed from Rome
- cisplatin — a cytotoxic drug that acts by preventing DNA replication and hence cell division, used in the treatment of tumours, esp of the ovary and testis
- city plan — the developmental plan for a city or town arrived at through the process of city planning.
- clampdown — A clampdown is a sudden restriction on a particular activity by a government or other authority.
- clappings — Plural form of clapping.
- clip bond — a form of brickwork raking bond for a facing of all stretchers, in which the stretchers are tied in to the backing every few courses by diagonally set bricks that project from the backing into angles made by cutting off the concealed corners of the face brick.
- clippings — A small piece trimmed from something.
- 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.
- coemption — the buying up of the complete supply of a commodity
- cohyponym — a word that is one of multiple hyponyms of another word
- cold snap — A cold snap is a short period of cold and icy weather.
- colophons — Plural form of colophon.
- colophony — rosin
- come upon — If you come upon someone or something, you meet them or find them by chance.
- 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.
- companion — A companion is someone who you spend time with or who you are travelling with.
- company's — a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people.
- comparing — Present participle of compare.
- compazine — a tranquilizing drug, C28H32ClN3O8S, used to control serious nausea or vomiting and to reduce anxiety
- 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)
- compiling — Present participle of compile.
- complains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of complain.
- complaint — A complaint is a statement in which you express your dissatisfaction with a particular situation.
- compliant — If you say that someone is compliant, you mean they willingly do what they are asked to do.
- complying — Present participle of comply.
- component — The components of something are the parts that it is made of.
- composing — Present participle of compose.
- compounds — Plural form of compound.
- comprendo — (slang) do you understand?.
- computant — a person who calculates
- computing — Computing is the activity of using a computer and writing programs for it.
- computron — (jargon) /kom'pyoo-tron"/ 1. A notional unit of computing power combining execution speed and storage capacity. E.g. "That machine can't run GNU Emacs, it doesn't have enough computrons!" 2. A mythical subatomic particle that carries computation or information, in much the same way that an electron carries electric charge (see also bogon).
- concepted — a general notion or idea; conception.
- conceptor — a person who generates or conceives ideas or plans.