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9-letter words containing a, c, h, e

  • cleithral — (of Greek temples) covered with a roof
  • closehead — the entrance to a tenement close
  • clunkhead — a stupid or foolish person.
  • coachable — capable of being coached
  • coachline — a decorative line on the bodywork of a motor vehicle
  • coalhouse — a shed or building for storing coal
  • cochineal — Cochineal is a red substance that is used for colouring food.
  • cochleate — shaped like a snail's shell; spirally twisted
  • codeshare — (aviation) Agreement whereby an airline buys space on another airline and markets the extra space as its own. Often used to increase a route network without the costs of running a full service.
  • cohabited — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
  • cohabitee — A person who cohabits with another.
  • cohabiter — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
  • cohobated — to distill again from the same or a similar substance, as by pouring a distilled liquid back upon the matter remaining in the vessel, or upon another mass of similar matter.
  • cohobates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cohobate.
  • cokeheads — Plural form of cokehead.
  • coliphage — a bacteriophage
  • cot death — Cot death is the sudden death of a baby while it is asleep, although the baby had not previously been ill.
  • cothamore — a frieze fabric, often used in the manufacture of overcoats.
  • crackhead — a person addicted to the drug crack
  • cranreuch — a hoarfrost
  • crisphead — a variety of lettuce with a dense cabbage-like head and mild crunchy leaves
  • crosshead — a subsection or paragraph heading printed within the body of the text
  • crushable — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
  • cryolathe — an instrument for reshaping the cornea to correct severe nearsightedness or farsightedness: the cornea is removed from the eye, rapidly frozen, reshaped, and reinserted.
  • cup shake — wind shake.
  • curlyhead — a person whose hair is curly.
  • cybercash — Funds used in electronic financial transactions, especially over the Internet.
  • cyberchat — Chat that takes place on the Internet, as in a chatroom or via instant messages.
  • cyberhack — Computers. hack1 (def 22b).
  • cyberrhea — (humour, jargon)   /si:'ber-eer/ An affliction of some word processor users; excessive frequency and looseness of productivity. Particularly virulent among those who have not discovered the fortifying virtues of revision.
  • cyclepath — a special path for the exclusive use of cyclists
  • cymophane — a yellow or green opalescent variety of chrysoberyl
  • cytherean — of or relating to Cytherea.
  • dancehall — a style of dance-oriented reggae, originating in the late 1980s
  • death cap — a poisonous woodland saprotrophic basidiomycetous fungus, Amanita phalloides, differing from the edible mushroom (Agaricus) only in its white gills (pinkish-brown in Agaricus) and the presence of a volva
  • death cup — a poisonous mushroom of the genus Amanita.
  • debauched — If you describe someone as debauched, you mean they behave in a way that you think is socially unacceptable, for example because they drink a lot of alcohol or have sex with a lot of people.
  • debauchee — a man who leads a life of reckless drinking, promiscuity, and self-indulgence
  • debaucher — to corrupt by sensuality, intemperance, etc.; seduce.
  • debauches — to corrupt by sensuality, intemperance, etc.; seduce.
  • dec alpha — (processor)   A RISC microprocessor from DEC. In November 1995, the Alpha was purportedly the fastest non-research chip used in commonly available workstations. It is superpipelined and superscalar. In February 1996 it was clocked at 200 MHz and in March 1998 at 666 MHz.
  • decachord — a ten-stringed musical instrument
  • decahedra — plural form of singular decahedron: solid figure with ten plane faces
  • decastich — a poem that consists of ten lines
  • decathect — to withdraw one's feelings of attachment from (a person, idea, or object), as in anticipation of a future loss: He decathected from her in order to cope with her impending death.
  • decathlon — The decathlon is a competition in which athletes compete in 10 different sporting events.
  • déchéance — the act of forfeiting something
  • deck hand — a seaman assigned various duties, such as mooring and cargo handling, on the deck of a ship
  • deckchair — A deckchair is a simple chair with a folding frame, and a piece of canvas as the seat and back. Deckchairs are usually used on the beach, on a ship, or in the garden.
  • declareth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'declare'.
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