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9-letter words containing a, c, h, r, o

  • chloranil — a yellow, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 6 Cl 4 O 2 , used chiefly as a fungicide and as an intermediate in the manufacture of dyes.
  • chlorates — Plural form of chlorate.
  • chlordane — a white insoluble toxic solid existing in several isomeric forms and usually used, as an insecticide, in the form of a brown impure liquid. Formula: C10H6Cl8
  • chlorella — any microscopic unicellular green alga of the genus Chlorella: some species are used in the preparation of human food
  • choleraic — relating to, like, or developing from cholera
  • chondroma — a benign cartilaginous growth or neoplasm
  • chop mark — a notch or other mark made in a coin to indicate verification of its authenticity, especially by a banker or merchant in the Far East during the 18th or 19th centuries.
  • choralist — a person who sings in a chorus or ensemble
  • chordates — belonging or pertaining to the phylum Chordata, comprising the true vertebrates and those animals having a notochord, as the lancelets and tunicates.
  • choreatic — any of several diseases of the nervous system characterized by jerky, involuntary movements, chiefly of the face and extremities.
  • choriambs — Plural form of choriamb.
  • choroidal — relating to the choroid
  • chowkidar — (in India) a watchman or gatekeeper.
  • chromagen — (biochemistry) Any compound, such as heme, that forms a biological pigment when attached to a protein.
  • chromakey — (in colour television) a special effect in which a coloured background can be eliminated and a different background substituted
  • chromates — Plural form of chromate.
  • chromatic — In music, chromatic means related to the scale that consists only of semitones.
  • chromatid — either of the two strands into which a chromosome divides during mitosis. They separate to form daughter chromosomes at anaphase
  • chromatin — the part of the nucleus that consists of DNA and proteins, forms the chromosomes, and stains with basic dyes
  • chromato- — indicating colour or coloured
  • chromidia — chromatins in cell cytoplasm
  • chronaxie — the minimum time required for excitation of a nerve or muscle when the stimulus is double the minimum (threshold) necessary to elicit a basic response
  • chronical — relating to or controlled by time
  • churrasco — meat cooked over an open fire.
  • cithaeron — a mountain range in SE Greece: sacred to Dionysus, in Greek mythology. to 4623 feet (1409 meters).
  • clothyard — (historical) An old unit of measure for cloth, 36 or 37 inches.
  • co durham — County Durham
  • co-anchor — one of the usually two anchors for a radio or TV newscast
  • co-author — The co-authors of a book, play, or report are the people who have written it together.
  • coachwork — the design and manufacture of car bodies
  • coauthors — Plural form of coauthor.
  • cockroach — A cockroach is a large brown insect that is sometimes found in warm places or where food is kept.
  • 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.
  • cohabiter — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
  • colcothar — a finely powdered form of ferric oxide produced by heating ferric sulphate and used as a pigment and as jewellers' rouge
  • conchobar — (in Irish legend) a king of Ulster at about the beginning of the Christian era
  • cornbrash — a type of limestone which produces good soil for growing corn
  • coronachs — Plural form of coronach.
  • cothamore — a frieze fabric, often used in the manufacture of overcoats.
  • cothurnal — relating to the cothurnus or to tragedy
  • cow shark — any large primitive shark, esp Hexanchus griseum, of the family Hexanchidae of warm and temperate waters
  • crapshoot — If you describe something as a crapshoot, you mean that what happens depends entirely on luck or chance.
  • crash out — If someone crashes out somewhere, they fall asleep where they are because they are very tired or drunk.
  • crash-hot — extremely impressive
  • crosshair — either of the two fine mutually perpendicular lines or wires that cross in the focal plane of a theodolite, gunsight, or other optical instrument and are used to define the line of sight
  • crosshead — a subsection or paragraph heading printed within the body of the text
  • cry havoc — to give the signal for pillage and destruction
  • 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.
  • cutthroat — a person who cuts throats; murderer
  • cymograph — an instrument for tracing the outline of an architectural moulding
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