9-letter words containing r, a, p
- caprylate — a salt of caprylic acid
- capsomere — any of the protein units that together form the capsid of a virus
- capsulary — Archaic form of capsular.
- captainry — captainship
- captopril — an ACE inhibitor used to treat high blood pressure and congestive heart failure
- capturers — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- capturing — Present participle of capture.
- capybaras — Plural form of capybara.
- car phone — A car phone is a mobile phone, especially one which is designed to be used in a car.
- carapaced — (of an animal) having a carapace
- carapaces — Plural form of carapace.
- cardphone — a public telephone operated by the insertion of a phonecard instead of coins
- cardpunch — a device, no longer widely used, controlled by a computer, for transferring information from the central processing unit onto punched cards
- cardsharp — a professional card player who cheats
- care plan — a plan for the medical care of a particular patient or the welfare of a child in care
- carpaccio — an Italian dish of thin slices of raw meat or fish
- carpellum — (botany) A carpel.
- 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- carpetbag — a travelling bag originally made of carpeting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.
- carpingly — In a carping manner.
- carpology — the branch of botany concerned with the study of fruits and seeds
- carpooled — Simple past tense and past participle of carpool.
- carpooler — a member of a carpool
- cartopper — an object, esp a small boat, designed to be transported on top of a vehicle
- caryopses — Plural form of caryopsis.
- caryopsis — a dry seedlike fruit having the pericarp fused to the seed coat of the single seed: produced by the grasses
- cash crop — A cash crop is a crop that is grown in order to be sold.
- cassareep — the juice of the bitter cassava root, boiled down to a syrup and used as a flavouring, esp in West Indian cookery
- cataphora — the use of a word such as a pronoun that has the same reference as a word used subsequently in the same discourse
- catnapper — a person who catnaps
- catoptric — the branch of optics dealing with the formation of images by mirrors.
- cd player — A CD player is a machine on which you can play CDs.
- cerograph — an engraving or writing on wax
- ceropegia — any of various, usually climbing or trailing, plants of the genus Ceropegia, native to the Old World tropics and often cultivated as houseplants.
- 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
- chaparral — (in the southwestern US) a dense growth of shrubs and trees, esp evergreen oaks
- chaperone — A chaperone is someone who accompanies another person somewhere in order to make sure that they do not come to any harm.
- chaperons — Plural form of chaperon.
- chapiters — Plural form of chapiter.
- chapparal — Archaic spelling of chaparral.
- chaprassi — an office worker or doorman
- 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.
- charge up — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- chaseport — a porthole through which a gun was fired
- cheapener — One who cheapens.
- chinstrap — a strap that goes under the chin