9-letter words containing r, e, p, a
- 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
- calipered — Simple past tense and past participle of caliper.
- callipers — an instrument for measuring internal or external dimensions, consisting of two steel legs hinged together
- campeador — a champion
- campering — a person who camps out for recreation, especially in the wilderness.
- campervan — (Australia, NZ, British) A vehicle that provides both transport and sleeping accommodation.
- campfires — Plural form of campfire.
- camporees — Plural form of camporee.
- canephora — Caryatid that supports a basket on her head.
- cap screw — a screwed bolt with a cylindrical head having a hexagonal recess. The bolt is turned using a wrench of hexagonal cross section
- cape cart — a two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle sometimes with a canvas hood
- cape horn — a rocky headland on an island at the extreme S tip of South America, belonging to Chile. It is notorious for gales and heavy seas; until the building of the Panama Canal it lay on the only sea route between the Atlantic and the Pacific
- cape race — a cape at the SE extremity of Newfoundland, Canada
- cape roca — a cape in SW central Portugal, near Lisbon: the westernmost point of continental Europe
- cape work — the skillful practice of a bullfighter in using a cape to maneuver a bull.
- cape york — the northernmost point of the Australian mainland, in N Queensland on the Torres Strait at the tip of Cape York Peninsula (a peninsula between the Coral Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria)
- capernaum — a ruined town in N Israel, on the NW shore of the Sea of Galilee: closely associated with Jesus Christ during his ministry
- caporetto — Italian village (now in Slovenia): scene of a battle of WWI in which the Italian army was defeated by Austro-German forces (1917)
- caprifole — honeysuckle
- caprioled — Simple past tense and past participle of capriole.
- caprioles — Plural form of capriole.
- caprylate — a salt of caprylic acid
- capsomere — any of the protein units that together form the capsid of a virus
- capturers — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- 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
- care plan — a plan for the medical care of a particular patient or the welfare of a child in care
- 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.
- 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.
- cassareep — the juice of the bitter cassava root, boiled down to a syrup and used as a flavouring, esp in West Indian cookery
- catnapper — a person who catnaps
- 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
- 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.
- 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.