9-letter words containing a, h, o
- carothers — Wallace Hume1896-1937; U.S. chemist
- carthorse — A carthorse is a large, powerful horse that is used to pull carts or farm machinery.
- cartouche — a carved or cast ornamental tablet or panel in the form of a scroll, sometimes having an inscription
- case shot — a quantity of small projectiles enclosed in a single case, as a shrapnel shell, for firing from a gun
- cash crop — A cash crop is a crop that is grown in order to be sold.
- cash flow — The cash flow of a firm or business is the movement of money into and out of it.
- cash-book — a journal in which all cash or cheque receipts and disbursements are recorded
- cashbooks — Plural form of cashbook.
- cashpoint — A cashpoint is the same as a cash dispenser.
- cataphora — the use of a word such as a pronoun that has the same reference as a word used subsequently in the same discourse
- catch dog — a dog used to help round up livestock.
- catch out — To catch someone out means to cause them to make a mistake that reveals that they are lying about something, do not know something, or cannot do something.
- catchpole — (in medieval England) a sheriff's officer who arrested debtors
- catchpoll — (formerly) a petty officer of justice, especially one arresting persons for debt.
- catchword — A catchword is a word or phrase that becomes popular or well-known, for example, because it is associated with a political campaign.
- catchwork — A simple irrigation system, used on sloping land, in which water from a stream or spring is fed in at the top and allowed to trickle down over a number of artificial terraces.
- cathinone — (organic compound) The aromatic amine 2-amino-1-phenyl-1-propanone that is the active ingredient of khat.
- catholics — Plural form of Catholic.
- cathouses — Plural form of cathouse.
- ceanothus — any shrub of the North American rhamnaceous genus Ceanothus: grown for their ornamental, often blue, flower clusters
- cenotaphs — Plural form of cenotaph.
- cephaloid — Shaped like the head or the brain.
- cephalous — having a head
- cerograph — an engraving or writing on wax
- cetshwayo — ?1826–84, king of the Zulus (1873–79): defeated the British at Isandhlwana (1879) but was overwhelmed by them at Ulundi (1879); captured, he stated his case in London, and was reinstated as ruler of part of Zululand (1883)
- chaconine — a toxic alkaloid substance found in potatoes
- chaconnes — Plural form of chaconne.
- chaeronea — an ancient Greek town in W Boeotia: site of the victory of Philip of Macedon over the Athenians and Thebans (338 bc) and of Sulla over Mithridates (86 bc)
- chaetopod — any annelid worm of the classes Oligochaeta or Polychaeta
- chainwork — any work linked or looped in the manner of or resembling a chain or chains
- chalazion — a small cyst on the eyelid resulting from chronic inflammation of a meibomian gland
- chalcedon — ancient Greek city on the Bosporus, opposite Byzantium: site of the 4th ecumenical council, a.d. 451
- chalcogen — any of the elements oxygen, sulphur, selenium, tellurium, or polonium, of group 6A of the periodic table
- chalk out — to outline (a plan, scheme, etc); sketch
- chameleon — A chameleon is a kind of lizard whose skin changes colour to match the colour of its surroundings.
- chamfrons — Plural form of chamfron.
- chamomile — camomile
- chamosite — a mineral of the chlorite group, hydrous aluminum silicate of iron, occurring in gray or black crystals in oolitic iron ore.
- champions — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of champion.
- chance on — to come upon by accident
- chancroid — a soft venereal ulcer, esp of the male genitals, caused by infection with the bacillus Haemophilus ducreyi
- chancrous — (medicine) Of the nature of a chancre; affected by chancre.
- changchou — Changzhou
- changchow — a city in S Fujian province, in SE China.
- changelog — (computing) A log that records changes between versions, as in source control.
- changzhou — a city in E China, in S Jiangsu province, on the Grand Canal: also known as Wutsin until 1949, when the 7th-century name was officially readopted. Pop: 2 085 500 (2004 est)
- chapbooks — Plural form of chapbook.
- 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.
- charangos — Plural form of charango.