9-letter words containing p, o, n
- 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.
- conceptus — any of various products of conception, including the embryo, fetus, and surrounding tissue
- conoscope — a polarizing microscope for giving interference figures and for determining the principal axis of a crystal.
- conscript — A conscript is a person who has been made to join the armed forces of a country.
- conspired — Make secret plans jointly to commit an unlawful or harmful act.
- conspirer — to agree together, especially secretly, to do something wrong, evil, or illegal: They conspired to kill the king.
- conspires — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conspire.
- contemper — to temper (something) by mixing with something of a different nature
- contempts — Plural form of contempt.
- coopering — Present participle of cooper.
- copacking — The manufacture and packaging of a product under contract to a client (and having the client's name/brand on the packaging).
- coparceny — (legal) An equal share of an inheritance.
- copartner — a partner or associate, esp an equal partner in business
- copataine — (of a hat) high-crowned
- copayment — a fee paid by a subscriber to a service for the use of additional services not covered by the subscription
- copestone — a stone used to form a coping
- coportion — (obsolete, nonce) equal share.
- coppering — Present participle of copper.
- coppicing — Present participle of coppice.
- copresent — to present jointly
- copy down — If you copy down something that someone has said or written, you write it down exactly.
- corn chip — a thin, crisp piece of snack food made from cornmeal.
- corn pone — a kind of corn bread baked in small oval loaves, or pones
- corn-pone — of or characteristic of an unsophisticated rural person, especially from the South: a corn-pone accent.
- cornopean — a cornet
- cornpones — Plural form of cornpone.
- corposant — Saint Elmo's fire
- corpulent — If you describe someone as corpulent, you mean they are fat.
- coryphene — either of two large marine percoid fishes, Coryphaena hippurus or C. equisetis, that resemble the cetacean dolphins and have an iridescent coloration
- cosponsor — a person, company, or other organization that is one of the two sponsors of an event or initiative
- countship — the rank or position of a count.
- couplings — Plural form of coupling.
- couponing — the distribution or redemption of promotional coupons
- cowperson — (politically correct, rare) a cowhand of any gender.
- cramponee — (heraldry) Having a cramp or square piece at the end; said of a cross.