9-letter words containing c, a, l, h
- hair clip — clasp for securing hairstyle
- hair-lock — a curl of the hair of the head
- haircloth — cloth of hair from the manes and tails of horses, woven with a cotton warp, and used for interlinings of clothes, upholstery, etc.
- halachist — one of the writers or compilers of the Halakhah.
- halcyonic — calm; peaceful; tranquil: halcyon weather.
- half buck — a half dollar; the sum of 50 cents.
- half cent — a bronze coin of the U.S., equal to one-half cent, issued at various periods between 1793 and 1857.
- half deck — (in a sailing ship) the portion of the deck below the upper or spar deck and aft of the mainmast.
- half-acre — a common measure of area: in the U.S. and U.K., 1 acre equals 4,840 square yards (4,047 square meters) or 0.405 hectare; 640 acres equals one square mile.
- half-cell — a single electrode, generally a metal, immersed in a container filled with an electrolyte, and having a specific electrical potential for a given combination of electrode and electrolyte.
- half-clad — partially dressed
- half-cock — to set the hammer of (a firearm) at half cock.
- half-deck — a deck on an old ship of war that is situated below the upper deck and extends aft from the mainmast
- half-inch — a half of an inch, equal to 1/24 of a foot (1.27 centimeters).
- half-jack — a flat pocket-sized bottle of alcohol
- half-pace — a small stage on which something stands
- half-peck — a unit of dry measure equal to 4 quarts (4.4 liters).
- halfbacks — Plural form of halfback.
- halfpence — Plural form of halfpenny.
- halftrack — an army truck, armored vehicle, etc. with tractor treads in the rear, but with a pair of wheels in front
- halieutic — Of or pertaining to fishing.
- halitotic — of or relating to halitosis
- halocline — a well-defined vertical salinity gradient in ocean or other saline water.
- halomancy — Divination by use of salt. This is the origin for the superstition of spilled salt.
- handclaps — Plural form of handclap.
- handclasp — a gripping of hands by two or more people, as in greeting, parting, making a commitment, or expressing affection.
- haplontic — (chiefly of an alga or other lower plant) having a life cycle in which the main form is haploid, with a diploid zygote being formed only briefly.
- hard clam — a quahog.
- hard coal — anthracite.
- hard luck — If you say that someone had some hard luck, or that a situation was hard luck on them, you mean that something bad happened to them and you are implying that it was not their fault.
- hatchable — (of an egg) able, or liable, to hatch.
- hatcheled — Simple past tense and past participle of hatchel.
- hatchling — a young bird, reptile, or fish recently emerged from an egg.
- head cold — a form of the common cold characterized especially by nasal congestion and sneezing.
- head lice — lice which lay eggs in human hair
- headcloth — any cloth for covering the head, as a turban or wimple.
- headlocks — Plural form of headlock.
- heathclad — Clad or crowned with heath.
- hela cell — a vigorous strain of laboratory-cultured cells descended from a human cervical cancer, used widely in research.
- helically — pertaining to or having the form of a helix; spiral.
- heliconia — any of a genus of tropical flowering plants with long flowering panicles
- helvetica — (text) One of the most widely used sans-serif typefaces, developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger with Eduard Hoffmann. Originally called Neue Haas Grotesk, it was renamed Helvetica for the international market. Helvetica is very similar to the common Arial typeface. The name is Latin for Swiss.
- heraclius — a.d. 575?–641, Byzantine emperor 610–641.
- herculean — requiring the great strength of a Hercules; very hard to perform: Digging the tunnel was a herculean task.
- heretical — of, relating to, or characteristic of heretics or heresy.
- holandric — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in males (opposed to hologynic).
- holarctic — belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising the Nearctic and Palearctic regions.
- hold back — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
- holdbacks — Plural form of holdback.
- hole card — Stud Poker. the card dealt face down in the first round of a deal.