9-letter words containing p, t, e
- capsulate — within or formed into a capsule
- captained — Simple past tense and past participle of captain.
- captative — (linguistics) Describing a verb (in some languages) that has a specific ending or other marker to indicate a hunting or catching function.
- captioned — Simple past tense and past participle of caption.
- captivate — If you are captivated by someone or something, you find them fascinating and attractive.
- captively — In a captive manner.
- capturers — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- carpenter — A carpenter is a person whose job is making and repairing wooden things.
- carpentry — Carpentry is the activity of making and repairing wooden things.
- carpetbag — a travelling bag originally made of carpeting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.
- cartopper — an object, esp a small boat, designed to be transported on top of a vehicle
- catalepsy — a state of prolonged rigid posture, occurring for example in schizophrenia or in hypnotic trances
- cataplane — an aircraft designed to be launched by a catapult.
- cataplexy — sudden temporary paralysis, brought on by severe shock
- catchpole — (in medieval England) a sheriff's officer who arrested debtors
- cathepsin — a proteolytic enzyme responsible for the autolysis of cells after death
- catheptic — of or relating to enzymes that catalyze autolysis in death or pathological conditions
- catnapped — Simple past tense and past participle of catnap.
- catnapper — a person who catnaps
- cenotaphs — Plural form of cenotaph.
- centipede — A centipede is a long, thin creature with a lot of legs.
- cephalate — (of living organisms) possessing a head or headlike feature
- cespitose — growing in dense, matlike clumps without creeping stems, as moss, grass, etc.
- cespitous — Turfy; resembling turf.
- chaetopod — any annelid worm of the classes Oligochaeta or Polychaeta
- 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
- chapiters — Plural form of chapiter.
- chapleted — wearing a wreath or garland on the head
- 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
- chipotles — Plural form of chipotle.
- chiropter — an animal of the order Chiroptera; a bat
- chopsteak — chopped steak.
- cityscape — an urban landscape; view of a city
- 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.
- 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.