9-letter words containing p, s, e
- 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.
- contempts — Plural form of contempt.
- copasetic — fine; completely satisfactory; OK.
- copesetic — fine; completely satisfactory; OK.
- copestone — a stone used to form a coping
- copperish — resembling copper
- copresent — to present jointly
- copsewood — the smallest trees, and the bushes and ferns, of a coppice
- copulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of copulate.
- copy desk — a desk where copy is edited
- copyedits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of copyedit.
- coreopsis — any plant of the genus Coreopsis, of America and tropical Africa, cultivated for their yellow, brown, or yellow-and-red daisy-like flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
- cornpones — Plural form of cornpone.
- corpuscle — Corpuscles are red or white blood cells.
- cosphered — sharing the same sphere
- cosplayer — One who takes part in cosplay.
- coverslip — a very thin piece of glass placed over a specimen on a glass slide that is to be examined under a microscope
- cowperson — (politically correct, rare) a cowhand of any gender.
- crappiest — Superlative form of crappy.
- creamcups — a Californian papaveraceous plant, Platystemon californicus, with small cream-coloured or yellow flowers on long flower stalks
- crease up — If someone or something makes you crease up or creases you up, they make you laugh a lot.
- creepiest — Superlative form of creepy.
- crepiness — the quality of being crepe-like in texture, esp in skin
- crepuscle — twilight
- crespelle — (plurale tantum) Small, folded pancakes, with a savoury (or sweet) filling, sometimes served with a sauce.
- cripplers — Plural form of crippler.
- crispated — Crispate.
- crisphead — a variety of lettuce with a dense cabbage-like head and mild crunchy leaves
- crispness — (especially of food) hard but easily breakable; brittle: crisp toast.
- cristophe — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), ("Henri I"I) 1767–1820, Haitian revolutionary general, born in Grenada: king 1811–20.
- croupiers — Plural form of croupier.
- crowsteps — Plural form of crowstep.
- cryoscope — any instrument used to determine the freezing point of a substance
- cryosleep — (science fiction) A deep sleep during which the body is stored at very cold temperature, to preserve it; cryogenic sleep.
- ctesiphon — an ancient city on the River Tigris about 100 km (60 miles) above Babylon. First mentioned in 221 bc, it was destroyed in the 7th and 8th centuries ad
- cup shake — wind shake.
- cuppiness — The state or quality of being cuppy.
- cupressus — any tree of the genus Cupressus
- curseperl — A curses library for Perl by the author of Perl, Larry Wall <[email protected]>. It comes with Perl.
- cuspidate — having a cusp or cusps
- cutpurses — Plural form of cutpurse.
- cybershop — Purchase or shop for goods and services on a website.
- cypresses — Plural form of cypress.
- dassiepis — (South African English) hyraceum: The solidified urine of a dassie, used medicinally, inter-alia, for epilepsy.
- datepalms — Plural form of datepalm.
- dead spot — Also called blind spot. an area in which radio or cell phone signals are weak and their reception poor.
- dead-spot — Anatomy. a small area on the retina that is insensitive to light due to the interruption, where the optic nerve joins the retina, of the normal pattern of light-sensitive rods and cones.
- debt swap — A debt swap is a legal agreement where two people or companies exchange their debts, often where one has a fixed interest rate and one does not.