9-letter words containing a, h, o, m
- champions — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of champion.
- charwoman — A charwoman is a woman who is employed to clean houses or offices.
- charwomen — Plural form of charwoman.
- chat room — A chat room is a site on the Internet where people can exchange messages about a particular subject.
- chatrooms — Plural form of chatroom.
- chemostat — an apparatus for growing bacterial cultures at a constant rate by controlling the supply of nutrient medium
- cheongsam — a straight dress, usually of silk or cotton, with a stand-up collar and a slit in one side of the skirt, worn by Chinese women
- cherimoya — a deciduous shrub or small tree, native to the Andean highlands, which produces an oval fruit with cream-coloured flesh
- chermoula — a marinade used in N African cookery
- chirimoya — cherimoya.
- chisimaio — a port in S Somalia, on the Indian Ocean. Pop: reliable recent estimates are not available
- chiyogami — a type of highly decorated, colourful craft paper used for origami
- chokedamp — blackdamp
- chokeslam — A wrestling move in which someone is picked up by their neck and is driven into the mat.
- cholaemia — a toxic medical condition indicated by the presence of bile in the blood
- cholaemic — of or relating to cholaemia
- chomskyan — of or relating to Noam Chomsky or his linguistic theories, especially to transformational-generative grammar.
- 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.
- choriambs — Plural form of choriamb.
- 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
- co durham — County Durham
- cockmatch — a cockfight
- cothamore — a frieze fabric, often used in the manufacture of overcoats.
- cymograph — an instrument for tracing the outline of an architectural moulding
- cymophane — a yellow or green opalescent variety of chrysoberyl
- dartmouth — a port in SW England, in S Devon: Royal Naval College (1905). Pop: 5512 (2001)
- dichogamy — the maturation of male and female parts of a flower at different times, preventing automatic self-pollination
- dichromat — a person whose vision can only distinguish two colours
- doomwatch — surveillance of the environment to warn of and prevent harm to it from human factors such as pollution or overpopulation
- dreamhole — a light-admitting hole in a tower
- earthworm — any one of numerous annelid worms that burrow in soil and feed on soil nutrients and decaying organic matter.
- ethmoidal — Ethmoid.
- farm shop — a shop that sells farm produce
- farmhouse — a house on a farm, especially the one used by the farmer and farmer's family.
- fathogram — the record made by a sonic depth finder.
- fathoming — a unit of length equal to six feet (1.8 meters): used chiefly in nautical measurements. Abbreviation: fath.
- fishwoman — (dated) A woman who sells fish.
- flash mob — a group of people mobilized by social media to meet in a public place for the purpose of doing an unusual or entertaining activity of short duration: The flash mob brought wide smiles to the faces of commuters waiting for their train.
- flash rom — Flash Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
- fomalhaut — a star of the first magnitude and the brightest star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
- for shame — the painful feeling arising from the consciousness of something dishonorable, improper, ridiculous, etc., done by oneself or another: She was overcome with shame.
- forasmuch — Inasmuch, seeing (that).