9-letter words containing pe
- bull rope — any of various ropes for holding objects to prevent them from rubbing against or striking other objects.
- buoy rope — a rope attaching a buoy to its anchor
- calipered — Simple past tense and past participle of caliper.
- calliopes — Plural form of calliope.
- callipers — an instrument for measuring internal or external dimensions, consisting of two steel legs hinged together
- calotypes — Plural form of calotype.
- 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.
- campesino — a Latin American rural peasant
- cantalope — Misspelling of cantaloupe.
- 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 town — the legislative capital of South Africa and capital of Western Cape province, situated in the southwest on Table Bay: founded in 1652, the first White settlement in southern Africa; important port. Pop: 3 740 026 (2011)
- 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)
- cape-nome — a seaport in W Alaska.
- capellini — a very thin and light pasta that resembles spaghetti
- capernaum — a ruined town in N Israel, on the NW shore of the Sea of Galilee: closely associated with Jesus Christ during his ministry
- 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- carpetbag — a travelling bag originally made of carpeting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.
- cartopper — an object, esp a small boat, designed to be transported on top of a vehicle
- catnapped — Simple past tense and past participle of catnap.
- catnapper — a person who catnaps
- cefcapene — A particular third-generation cephalosporin antibiotic.
- celoscope — an instrument for examining a body cavity.
- centipede — A centipede is a long, thin creature with a lot of legs.
- 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.
- cheapened — Simple past tense and past participle of cheapen.
- cheapener — One who cheapens.
- chemitype — an obsolete chemical process by which a relief impression was obtained from an engraving or etching
- chick-pea — Also called garbanzo. a widely cultivated plant, Cicer arietinum, of the legume family, bearing pods containing pealike seeds.
- chickpeas — Plural form of chickpea.
- chipewyan — a member of a North American Indian people of NW Canada
- chippered — to chirp or twitter.
- chippeway — Chippewa.
- chirruped — Simple past tense and past participle of chirrup.
- choppered — Simple past tense and past participle of chopper.
- cirripede — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, including the barnacles, the adults of which are sessile or parasitic
- cirripeds — Plural form of cirriped.
- cityscape — an urban landscape; view of a city
- clay pipe — a pipe whose bowl is made of fired clay