The term 'put in cipher' is a phrase used to describe the process of encrypting or encoding information. Encryption is the process of transforming data into a form that is unreadable by anyone other than the intended recipient, while encoding is the process of transforming data into a different form that can be read by anyone with the right decoding key. The crossword solutions for this term are ENCRYPT (7 letters) and ENCODE (6 letters). Therefore, the phrase 'put in cipher' can be used to refer to either the process of encryption or encoding.