9-letter words containing r, a, s, p
- bootstrap — If you bootstrap an organization or an activity, you set it up or achieve it alone, using very few resources.
- bra strap — a strap for fastening a bra
- breastpin — a brooch worn on the breast, esp to close a garment
- buttstrap — (in metal construction) a plate which overlaps and fastens two pieces butted together.
- bypassers — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- c-spanner — a sickle-shaped spanner having a projection at the end of the curve, used for turning large narrow nuts that have an indentation into which the projection on the spanner fits
- calc-spar — calcite.
- callipers — an instrument for measuring internal or external dimensions, consisting of two steel legs hinged together
- campfires — Plural form of campfire.
- camporees — Plural form of camporee.
- campshirt — a loose, short-sleeved shirt or blouse with an open collar
- cap screw — a screwed bolt with a cylindrical head having a hexagonal recess. The bolt is turned using a wrench of hexagonal cross section
- caparison — a decorated covering for a horse or other animal, esp (formerly) for a warhorse
- caprifigs — Plural form of caprifig.
- caprioles — Plural form of capriole.
- capsomere — any of the protein units that together form the capsid of a virus
- capsulary — Archaic form of capsular.
- capturers — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- capybaras — Plural form of capybara.
- carapaces — Plural form of carapace.
- cardsharp — a professional card player who cheats
- 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
- chaperons — Plural form of chaperon.
- chapiters — Plural form of chapiter.
- chaprassi — an office worker or doorman
- chaseport — a porthole through which a gun was fired
- chinstrap — a strap that goes under the chin
- clepsydra — an ancient device for measuring time by the flow of water or mercury through a small aperture
- collapsar — a collapsed star, either a white dwarf, neutron star, or black hole
- compadres — Plural form of compadre.
- comprisal — to include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several socialist republics.
- coroplast — A manufacturer of terracotta figurines (in Ancient Greece).
- corporals — Plural form of corporal.
- corposant — Saint Elmo's fire
- cosplayer — One who takes part in cosplay.
- 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.
- crispated — Crispate.
- crisphead — a variety of lettuce with a dense cabbage-like head and mild crunchy leaves