9-letter words containing a, r, c, h
- cardshark — (chiefly, US) A cardsharp.
- cardsharp — a professional card player who cheats
- care home — A care home is a large house or institution where people with particular problems or special needs are looked after.
- carinthia — a state of S Austria: an independent duchy from 976 to 1276; mainly mountainous, with many lakes and resorts. Capital: Klagenfurt. Pop: 559 440 (2003 est). Area: 9533 sq km (3681 sq miles)
- carothers — Wallace Hume1896-1937; U.S. chemist
- carthamin — (organic compound) A red colouring matter obtained from the safflower, Carthamus tinctorius.
- 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
- cartwheel — If you do a cartwheel, you do a fast, circular movement with your body. You fall sideways, put your hands on the ground, swing your legs over, and return to a standing position.
- cash card — A cash card is a card that banks give to their customers so that they can get money out of a cash dispenser.
- cash crop — A cash crop is a crop that is grown in order to be sold.
- cashiered — to dismiss (a military officer) from service, especially with disgrace.
- cashierer — a person who rejects or dismisses from office
- cataphora — the use of a word such as a pronoun that has the same reference as a word used subsequently in the same discourse
- catarrhal — Pathology. inflammation of a mucous membrane, especially of the respiratory tract, accompanied by excessive secretions.
- 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.
- catharise — purify
- catharize — to purify or make clean
- catharses — Plural form of catharsis.
- catharsis — Catharsis is getting rid of unhappy memories or strong emotions such as anger or sadness by expressing them in some way.
- cathartic — Something that is cathartic has the effect of catharsis.
- cathartid — (zoology) Any member of the Cathartidae.
- cathedral — A cathedral is a very large and important church which has a bishop in charge of it.
- catherine — Saint. died 307 ad, legendary Christian martyr of Alexandria, who was tortured on a spiked wheel and beheaded
- catheters — Plural form of catheter.
- cauchemar — a nightmare
- cerograph — an engraving or writing on wax
- 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)
- chaffered — Simple past tense and past participle of chaffer.
- chafferer — One who chaffers; a bargainer.
- chagrined — If you are chagrined by something, it disappoints, upsets, or annoys you, perhaps because of your own failure.
- chainwork — any work linked or looped in the manner of or resembling a chain or chains
- chair bed — a chair that can be opened out to form a bed.
- chair car — a railroad passenger car with pairs of adjustable seats on both sides of the aisle
- chairback — the part of a chair that supports the sitter's back
- chairdays — old age, or the point in life when resting in a chair is the most comfortable way of passing time
- chairlady — chairwoman.
- chairlift — a series of chairs suspended from a power-driven cable for conveying people, esp skiers, up a mountain
- chairside — Relating to activities that happen next to the dental chair during treatment.
- chalkrail — a troughlike molding or strip holding chalk, erasers, etc., under a blackboard.
- chambered — having a chamber inside it in which the body of an important person was laid to rest
- chamberer — someone who attends to a bed chamber; chambermaid or chamberlain
- chamberys — a city in and the capital of Savoie, in SE France.
- chamfered — a cut that is made in wood or some other material, usually at a 45° angle to the adjacent principal faces. Compare bevel.
- chamfrons — Plural form of chamfron.
- champerty — (formerly) an illegal bargain between a party to litigation and an outsider whereby the latter agrees to pay for the action and thereby share in any proceeds recovered
- chanceler — Obsolete form of chancellor.
- 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.