9-letter words containing a, r, m, h
- 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
- charismas — Plural form of charisma.
- charmante — Silk fabric with a crepe back.
- charmeuse — a lightweight fabric with a satin-like finish
- charminar — a 16th-century monument with four minarets at Hyderabad, India
- charmings — Plural form of charming.
- charmless — If you say that something or someone is charmless, you mean that they are unattractive or uninteresting.
- 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.
- checkmark — a tick
- chemtrail — A contrail consisting of chemicals or biological agents deliberately sprayed at high altitudes, according to certain conspiracy theories.
- 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
- chimaeras — Plural form of chimaera.
- chimaeric — (of a molecule) having two genetically different components
- chipmaker — a manufacturer of electronic chips.
- chirimoya — cherimoya.
- 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.
- christmas — Christmas is a Christian festival when the birth of Jesus Christ is celebrated. Christmas is celebrated on the 25th of December.
- 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
- churchman — A churchman is the same as a clergyman.
- co durham — County Durham
- cothamore — a frieze fabric, often used in the manufacture of overcoats.
- crampfish — a ray of the order Torpediniformes with electric organs on either side of its head
- cymograph — an instrument for tracing the outline of an architectural moulding
- dartmouth — a port in SW England, in S Devon: Royal Naval College (1905). Pop: 5512 (2001)
- dharmsala — an Indian hostel or rest-house, often built with religious purpose
- diaphragm — Your diaphragm is a muscle between your lungs and your stomach. It is used when you breathe.
- diathermy — local heating of the body tissues with an electric current for medical or surgical purposes
- dichromat — a person whose vision can only distinguish two colours
- didrachma — An Ancient Greek silver coin worth two drachmas.
- dithyramb — a Greek choral song or chant of vehement or wild character and of usually irregular form, originally in honor of Dionysus or Bacchus.
- dreamhole — a light-admitting hole in a tower
- drumheads — Plural form of drumhead.