9-letter words containing s, p, i
- buck slip — Informal. a paper attached to and showing the destination and source of an interoffice memorandum, file, or the like.
- bumptious — If you say that someone is bumptious, you are criticizing them because they are very pleased with themselves and their opinions.
- buprestid — any beetle of the mainly tropical family Buprestidae, the adults of which are brilliantly coloured and the larvae of which bore into and cause damage to trees, roots, etc
- bypassing — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- cacoepist — One who engages in cacoepy, especially frequently.
- cadetship — a student in a national service academy or private military school or on a training ship.
- call slip — a form for requesting a library book by title and call number
- calliopes — Plural form of calliope.
- callipash — the part of a turtle next to the upper shield, consisting of a greenish gelatinous substance, considered a delicacy.
- callipers — an instrument for measuring internal or external dimensions, consisting of two steel legs hinged together
- callippus — flourished 4th century b.c, Greek astronomer.
- camp site — a place used or suitable for camping.
- campaigns — Plural form of campaign.
- campanist — an expert on bells
- campesino — a Latin American rural peasant
- campfires — Plural form of campfire.
- campiness — the quality of being campy
- campshirt — a loose, short-sleeved shirt or blouse with an open collar
- campsites — Plural form of campsite.
- canonship — the position or office of canon; canonry.
- capacious — Something that is capacious has a lot of space to put things in.
- caparison — a decorated covering for a horse or other animal, esp (formerly) for a warhorse
- capitasti — a plural of capotasto.
- caprifigs — Plural form of caprifig.
- caprioles — Plural form of capriole.
- capsaicin — a colourless crystalline bitter alkaloid found in capsicums and used as a flavouring in vinegar and pickles. Formula: C18H27O3N
- capsicums — Plural form of capsicum.
- capsizing — Present participle of capsize.
- capsulise — Alt form capsulize.
- capsulize — to state (information) in a highly condensed form
- capuchins — Plural form of capuchin.
- caryopsis — a dry seedlike fruit having the pericarp fused to the seed coat of the single seed: produced by the grasses
- cashpoint — A cashpoint is the same as a cash dispenser.
- cathepsin — a proteolytic enzyme responsible for the autolysis of cells after death
- cephalins — Plural form of cephalin.
- cespitose — growing in dense, matlike clumps without creeping stems, as moss, grass, etc.
- cespitous — Turfy; resembling turf.
- chalkpits — Plural form of chalkpit.
- champians — Plural form of champian.
- champions — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of champion.
- chapattis — Plural form of chapatti.
- chapiters — Plural form of chapiter.
- chaplains — Plural form of chaplain.
- chaprassi — an office worker or doorman
- chapstick — a cylinder of a substance for preventing or soothing chapped lips
- cheapside — street and district of London; in the Middle Ages it was a marketplace
- chess pie — a dessert made of a custardlike mixture of butter, sugar, eggs, etc., baked in a pie shell
- chickpeas — Plural form of chickpea.
- chiefship — the post or situation of a chief
- childship — The state or relation of being a child.