9-letter words containing p, s, r
- composter — a bin or other container used to turn garden and kitchen waste into compost
- composure — Composure is the appearance or feeling of calm and the ability to control your feelings.
- comprisal — to include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several socialist republics.
- comprised — to include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several socialist republics.
- comprises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of comprise.
- compromis — a formal document, executed in common by nations submitting a dispute to arbitration, that defines the matter at issue, the rules of procedure and the powers of the arbitral tribunal, and the principles for determining the award.
- computers — Plural form of computer.
- 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.
- copperish — resembling copper
- copresent — to present jointly
- 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.
- coroplast — A manufacturer of terracotta figurines (in Ancient Greece).
- corporals — Plural form of corporal.
- corposant — Saint Elmo's fire
- corpuscle — Corpuscles are red or white blood cells.
- cosphered — sharing the same sphere
- cosplayer — One who takes part in cosplay.
- cosponsor — a person, company, or other organization that is one of the two sponsors of an event or initiative
- courtship — Courtship is the activity of courting or the time during which a man and a woman are courting.
- 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.
- cparaops5 — (language) A parallel version of OPS5 written at CMU, in C and compiling to C. CParaOps5 is available for Unix, Mach, Encore Multimaxen, and Sequent.
- crackpots — Plural form of crackpot.
- crampfish — a ray of the order Torpediniformes with electric organs on either side of its head
- crankpins — Plural form of crankpin.
- crappiest — Superlative form of crappy.
- crapshoot — If you describe something as a crapshoot, you mean that what happens depends entirely on luck or chance.
- crapulous — characterized by intemperance, esp. in drinking; debauched
- crash pad — a place to live or sleep temporarily
- 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.
- crockpots — Plural form of crockpot.
- crop-dust — to subject (a field) to crop-dusting.
- cross-ply — (of a motor tyre) having the fabric cords in the outer casing running diagonally to stiffen the sidewalls
- crosspost — (computing) An electronic message posted to multiple newsgroups simultaneously.
- croupiers — Plural form of croupier.
- crowsteps — Plural form of crowstep.