9-letter words containing c, a, r, t, h
- car thief — a person who steals automobiles
- 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.
- 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.
- chairlift — a series of chairs suspended from a power-driven cable for conveying people, esp skiers, up a mountain
- 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
- chantress — a female chanter or singer
- chantries — Plural form of chantry.
- chapiters — Plural form of chapiter.
- chapter 7 — the statute regarding liquidation proceedings that empowers a court to appoint a trustee to operate a failing business to prevent further loss
- chapteral — of or pertaining to a chapter
- chaptered — a main division of a book, treatise, or the like, usually bearing a number or title.
- character — The character of a person or place consists of all the qualities they have that make them distinct from other people or places.
- charecter — Misspelling of character.
- charities — Plural form of charity.
- charlatan — You describe someone as a charlatan when they pretend to have skills or knowledge that they do not really possess.
- charleton — a male given name.
- charlotte — a baked dessert served hot or cold, commonly made with fruit and layers or a casing of bread or cake crumbs, sponge cake, etc
- charmante — Silk fabric with a crepe back.
- charoseth — haroseth.
- charrette — a final, intensive effort to finish a project, especially an architectural design project, before a deadline.
- chartable — a sheet exhibiting information in tabular form.
- chartered — Chartered is used to indicate that someone, such as an accountant or a surveyor, has formally qualified in their profession.
- charterer — a document, issued by a sovereign or state, outlining the conditions under which a corporation, colony, city, or other corporate body is organized, and defining its rights and privileges.
- charteris — Leslie, original name Leslie Charles Bowyer Yin. 1907–93, British novelist, born in Singapore: created the character Simon Templar, known as The Saint, the central character in many adventure novels
- chartings — Plural form of charting.
- chartists — the principles or movement of a party of political reformers, chiefly workingmen, in England from 1838 to 1848: so called from the document (People's Charter or National Charter) that contained a statement of their principles and demands.
- chartless — not mapped; uncharted
- chartreux — a breed of sturdy cat with short dense woolly fur
- chartulae — charta (def 2).
- chartwell — a house near Westerham in Kent: home for 40 years of Sir Winston Churchill
- charvette — (Geordie, pejorative) A female charva.
- chaseport — a porthole through which a gun was fired
- chastener — to inflict suffering upon for purposes of moral improvement; chastise.