9-letter words containing p, t, c
- chapattis — Plural form of chapatti.
- chapiters — Plural form of chapiter.
- chapleted — wearing a wreath or garland on the head
- chapstick — a cylinder of a substance for preventing or soothing chapped lips
- 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.
- chaseport — a porthole through which a gun was fired
- chassepot — a breech-loading bolt-action rifle formerly used by the French Army
- chautemps — Camille [ka-mee-yuh] /kaˈmi yə/ (Show IPA), 1885–1963, French politician: premier 1930, 1933–34, 1937–38.
- cheap out — to take the cheapest option; try to do something as cheaply as possible
- chemitype — an obsolete chemical process by which a relief impression was obtained from an engraving or etching
- chemitypy — the process of chemitype
- chiltepin — a variety of chilli pepper, Capsicum annuum, growing wild in Mexico and the south-western United States
- chinstrap — a strap that goes under the chin
- chip shot — a short approach shot to the green, esp one that is lofted
- chipolata — a small sausage in a narrow casing
- chipotles — Plural form of chipotle.
- chiropter — an animal of the order Chiroptera; a bat
- chopsteak — chopped steak.
- chopstick — Chopsticks are a pair of thin sticks which people in China and the Far East use to eat their food.
- cisplatin — a cytotoxic drug that acts by preventing DNA replication and hence cell division, used in the treatment of tumours, esp of the ovary and testis
- city plan — the developmental plan for a city or town arrived at through the process of city planning.
- cityscape — an urban landscape; view of a city
- clapstick — A kind of drumstick used by striking one against another, to maintain rhythm in Aboriginal voice chants.
- classpath — (programming) an argument that tells the Java virtual machine where to look for user-defined classes and packages when running Java programs.
- cleft lip — a congenital split in the upper lip, often associated with a cleft palate
- cleopatra — a yellow butterfly, Gonepteryx cleopatra, the male of which has its wings flushed with orange
- clipsheet — a sheet of paper with text printed on one side only
- clodpated — stupid
- 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.
- 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.
- clumpiest — Superlative form of clumpy.
- co-parent — a divorced or separated parent who shares equally with the other parent in the custody and care of a child.
- coadapted — adapted to one another
- 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.
- 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
- coleopter — an aircraft that has an annular wing with the fuselage and engine on the centre line
- 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
- colpotomy — a surgical incision into the wall of the vagina
- 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