9-letter words containing p, r
- carpetbag — a travelling bag originally made of carpeting
- carpeting — You use carpeting to refer to a carpet, or to the type of material that is used to make carpets.
- carpingly — In a carping manner.
- carpology — the branch of botany concerned with the study of fruits and seeds
- 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.
- caryopsis — a dry seedlike fruit having the pericarp fused to the seed coat of the single seed: produced by the grasses
- cash crop — A cash crop is a crop that is grown in order to be sold.
- cassareep — the juice of the bitter cassava root, boiled down to a syrup and used as a flavouring, esp in West Indian cookery
- cataphora — the use of a word such as a pronoun that has the same reference as a word used subsequently in the same discourse
- catnapper — a person who catnaps
- catoptric — the branch of optics dealing with the formation of images by mirrors.
- cd player — A CD player is a machine on which you can play CDs.
- 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.
- 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
- chaparral — (in the southwestern US) a dense growth of shrubs and trees, esp evergreen oaks
- 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.
- chapiters — Plural form of chapiter.
- chapparal — Archaic spelling of chaparral.
- chaprassi — an office worker or doorman
- chapter 7 — the statute regarding liquidation proceedings that empowers a court to appoint a trustee to operate a failing business to prevent further loss
- chapteral — of or pertaining to a chapter
- chaptered — a main division of a book, treatise, or the like, usually bearing a number or title.
- charge up — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- chaseport — a porthole through which a gun was fired
- cheapener — One who cheapens.
- cheruping — Present participle of cherup.
- chinstrap — a strap that goes under the chin
- chipboard — Chipboard is a hard material made out of very small pieces of wood which have been pressed together. It is often used for making doors and furniture.
- chipmaker — a manufacturer of electronic chips.
- chippered — to chirp or twitter.
- chipproof — resistant to chipping.
- chiropody — Chiropody is the professional treatment and care of people's feet.
- chiropter — an animal of the order Chiroptera; a bat
- chirpsing — Present participle of chirpse.
- chirruped — Simple past tense and past participle of chirrup.
- choephori — a tragedy (458 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
- chop mark — a notch or other mark made in a coin to indicate verification of its authenticity, especially by a banker or merchant in the Far East during the 18th or 19th centuries.
- choppered — Simple past tense and past participle of chopper.
- ciphering — calculating
- cirripede — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, including the barnacles, the adults of which are sessile or parasitic
- cirripeds — Plural form of cirriped.
- clapboard — A clapboard building has walls which are covered with long narrow pieces of wood, usually painted white.
- clapbread — a type of cake made from oatmeal
- cleopatra — a yellow butterfly, Gonepteryx cleopatra, the male of which has its wings flushed with orange
- clepsydra — an ancient device for measuring time by the flow of water or mercury through a small aperture