9-letter words containing p, o
- 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.
- clop-clop — a clattering sound of repeated clops.
- cloth cap — A cloth cap is a soft flat cap with a stiff, curved part at the front called a peak. Cloth caps are usually worn by men.
- cloth-cap — pertaining to or characteristic of the working class.
- 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.
- coachwhip — a coachwhip snake
- coadapted — adapted to one another
- cockahoop — Alternative form of cock-a-hoop.
- cockapoos — Plural form of cockapoo.
- cockspurs — Plural form of cockspur.
- codevelop — to develop jointly
- codpieces — Plural form of codpiece.
- coemption — the buying up of the complete supply of a commodity
- coffeepot — A coffeepot is a tall, narrow pot with a spout and a lid, in which coffee is made or served.
- cohyponym — a word that is one of multiple hyponyms of another word
- cold pack — a method of lowering the body temperature by wrapping a person in a sheet soaked in cold water
- cold pole — the location in the northern or southern hemisphere having the coldest annual mean temperature in that hemisphere.
- cold snap — A cold snap is a short period of cold and icy weather.
- cold spot — an area where house prices are stable and properties are slow to sell
- cold type — typesetting done by a method other than the casting of molten type
- cold-pack — to place a cold pack on: to cold-pack a feverish patient.
- coldsleep — A deep sleep during which the body is stored at very cold temperature, to preserve it; cryogenic sleep.
- coleopter — an aircraft that has an annular wing with the fuselage and engine on the centre line
- coliphage — a bacteriophage
- collapsar — a collapsed star, either a white dwarf, neutron star, or black hole
- collapsed — Simple past tense and past participle of collapse.
- collapses — Plural form of collapse.
- collotype — a method of lithographic printing from a flat surface of hardened gelatine: used mainly for fine-detail reproduction in monochrome or colour
- collotypy — the process of collotype
- colophons — Plural form of colophon.
- colophony — rosin
- coloscope — a flexible, lighted, tubular instrument using fiber optics to permit visualization of the colon.
- coloscopy — colonoscopy.
- colpotomy — a surgical incision into the wall of the vagina
- come upon — If you come upon someone or something, you meet them or find them by chance.
- comp time — Comp time is time off that an employer gives to an employee because the employee has worked overtime. Comp time is short for compensation time.
- compacity — Any of several technical measures of compactness, especially, in a granular medium (e.g. sand), the volume fraction that is filled.
- compacted — compressed as a result of physical pressure
- compacter — Comparative form of compact.
- compactly — joined or packed together; closely and firmly united; dense; solid: compact soil.
- compactor — a machine that compacts something, esp rubbish
- compadres — Plural form of compadre.
- 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.