9-letter words containing c, a, r, t, h, o
- cothamore — a frieze fabric, often used in the manufacture of overcoats.
- cothurnal — relating to the cothurnus or to tragedy
- crapshoot — If you describe something as a crapshoot, you mean that what happens depends entirely on luck or chance.
- crash out — If someone crashes out somewhere, they fall asleep where they are because they are very tired or drunk.
- crash-hot — extremely impressive
- cryolathe — an instrument for reshaping the cornea to correct severe nearsightedness or farsightedness: the cornea is removed from the eye, rapidly frozen, reshaped, and reinserted.
- cutthroat — a person who cuts throats; murderer
- dichromat — a person whose vision can only distinguish two colours
- eachother — (nonstandard) misspelling of each other Typically used in the context of
- escheator — a person appointed to deal with escheats
- flowchart — Also called flow sheet. a detailed diagram or chart of the operations and equipment through which material passes, as in a manufacturing process.
- foreteach — to teach (something) ahead of time
- forthcame — Simple past form of forthcome.
- ghost car — an unmarked police car
- haircloth — cloth of hair from the manes and tails of horses, woven with a cotton warp, and used for interlinings of clothes, upholstery, etc.
- hardcourt — relating to a type of tennis court that is made of hard material
- hectogram — a unit of mass or weight equal to 100 grams, equivalent to 3.527 ounces avoirdupois. Abbreviation: hg.
- hierocrat — a person who believes in government by religious leaders
- holarctic — belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising the Nearctic and Palearctic regions.
- homecraft — skills used in the home
- horsecart — A cart drawn by a horse.
- hydrocast — a process in which water is collected at various depths in a device with bottles clamped together, providing data on differing water characteristics.
- kurchatov — Igor Vasilievich [ee-guh r-vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /ˈi gər vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1903–60, Soviet nuclear physicist.
- macroetch — to etch deeply into the surface of (a metal).
- macrolith — a stone tool about 1 foot (30 cm) long.
- metarchon — a nontoxic substance, such as a chemical to mask pheromones, that reduces the persistence of a pest
- ochlocrat — An adherent of the principle of ochlocracy; a advocate of mob rule.
- octachord — any musical instrument with eight strings.
- octahedra — Plural form of octahedron.
- orchestra — a group of performers on various musical instruments, including especially stringed instruments of the viol class, clarinets and flutes, cornets and trombones, drums, and cymbals, for playing music, as symphonies, operas, popular music, or other compositions.
- outcharge — to charge more than
- outpreach — to outdo in preaching or overcome by preaching
- outsearch — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
- overcatch — to overtake
- overmatch — to be more than a match for; surpass; defeat: an assignment that clearly overmatched his abilities; an able task force that overmatched the enemy fleet.
- overteach — to teach too much
- overwatch — to watch over.
- parocheth — a richly embroidered curtain that hangs in front of the Holy Ark in a synagogue.
- patchwork — something made up of an incongruous variety of pieces or parts; hodgepodge: a patchwork of verse forms.
- pathocure — Psychiatry. cessation of a neurosis with the appearance of an organic disease.
- photocard — A photocard is a card with a person's photograph on it, which they can use to prove who they are.
- porchetta — Italian boneless stuffed pork cut from a whole roast pig
- postcrash — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after a crash
- pothecary — apothecary.
- rh factor — any of a type of specific antigen present on the surface of red blood cells, persons having inherited such antigens being designated Rh+ (Rh positive) and persons lacking them, a much smaller group, being designated Rh− (Rh negative) blood of Rh− persons is incompatible with Rh+ blood because of antibody reaction, and an Rh− woman who bears an Rh+ baby will have formed antibodies to the fetal blood that, unless removed from her bloodstream by apheresis in a subsequent pregnancy, will be carried across the placenta and destroy red blood cells of the next Rh+ fetus, resulting in erythroblastosis in the newborn.
- rhapontic — a type of rhubarb
- rhotacism — Historical Linguistics. a change of a speech sound, especially (s), to (r), as in the change from Old Latin lases to Latin lares.
- rhotacize — to change (a sound) to an (r); subject to rhotacism.
- rockshaft — an oscillating shaft.
- rotachute — a device serving the same purpose as a parachute, in which the canopy is replaced by freely revolving rotor blades, used for the delivery of stores or recovery of missiles