9-letter words containing p, t
- copyedits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of copyedit.
- copyfight — the conflict between copyright holders and other individuals over the use, distribution, and replication of copyright materials
- copypasta — (Internet slang) A block of text which has been copied and pasted from somewhere else.
- copyright — If someone has copyright on a piece of writing or music, it is illegal to reproduce or perform it without their permission.
- copytaker — (esp in a newspaper office) a person employed to type reports as journalists dictate them over the telephone
- copywrite — (rare) To write the copy (or text) of an advertisement; to have a job as a copywriter.
- coroplast — A manufacturer of terracotta figurines (in Ancient Greece).
- corporate — Corporate means relating to business corporations or to a particular business corporation.
- corposant — Saint Elmo's fire
- corpulent — If you describe someone as corpulent, you mean they are fat.
- corrupted — guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
- corrupter — guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
- corruptly — guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
- corruptor — guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
- cost-plus — A cost-plus basis for a contract about work to be done is one in which the buyer agrees to pay the seller or contractor all the cost plus a profit.
- cost-push — of or relating to cost-push inflation: a proponent of the cost-push theory.
- countship — the rank or position of a count.
- coupstick — (historical) A stick or switch used among some Native Americans for making or counting a coup.
- courtship — Courtship is the activity of courting or the time during which a man and a woman are courting.
- cow pilot — sergeant major (sense 3)
- crackpots — Plural form of crackpot.
- crappiest — Superlative form of crappy.
- crapshoot — If you describe something as a crapshoot, you mean that what happens depends entirely on luck or chance.
- crapulent — given to or resulting from intemperance
- crazy top — a disease of cotton, corn, etc., characterized by abnormal branching and small, misshapen leaves in the upper part of the plant, caused by water shortage, organic deficiencies in the soil, or unknown causes.
- creepiest — Superlative form of creepy.
- crepitant — to make a crackling sound; crackle.
- crepitate — to make a rattling or crackling sound; rattle or crackle
- crispated — Crispate.
- cristophe — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), ("Henri I"I) 1767–1820, Haitian revolutionary general, born in Grenada: king 1811–20.
- crock pot — slow cooker
- crock-pot — an electric cooker consisting of an earthenware pot inside a container with a heating element that maintains a steady low temperature, used as for simmering stews for several hours
- crockpots — Plural form of crockpot.
- crop-dust — to subject (a field) to crop-dusting.
- crorepati — (in India) a person whose assets are worth at least one crore or 10 million rupees
- crosspost — (computing) An electronic message posted to multiple newsgroups simultaneously.
- crowsteps — Plural form of crowstep.
- cryophyte — an organism, esp an alga or moss, that grows on snow or ice
- cryptadia — a collection of things to be kept hidden
- cryptical — mysterious in meaning; puzzling; ambiguous: a cryptic message.
- cryptogam — (in former plant classification schemes) any organism that does not produce seeds, including algae, fungi, mosses, and ferns
- cryptonym — a code name or secret name
- 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
- culpatory — expressing blame
- cup plant — a hardy composite plant, Silphium perfoliatum, of eastern North America, having large yellow flower heads and opposite leaves that envelop the stem, forming a cup.
- cup towel — a dishtowel.
- cupertino — a town in W California.
- cupolated — having a cupola or cupolas.
- curly top — a disease of plants, especially beets, characterized by puckered or cupped leaves and stunting or distortion, caused by a virus, Ruga verrucosans.
- cuspidate — having a cusp or cusps