9-letter words containing c, a, t, h, o
- cochleate — shaped like a snail's shell; spirally twisted
- cockmatch — a cockfight
- cohabited — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- cohabitee — A person who cohabits with another.
- cohabiter — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- cohobated — to distill again from the same or a similar substance, as by pouring a distilled liquid back upon the matter remaining in the vessel, or upon another mass of similar matter.
- cohobates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cohobate.
- coinhabit — To inhabit together.
- colcothar — a finely powdered form of ferric oxide produced by heating ferric sulphate and used as a pigment and as jewellers' rouge
- connaught — Connacht
- cot death — Cot death is the sudden death of a baby while it is asleep, although the baby had not previously been ill.
- 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
- cytopathy — a disease or disorder of a cell
- cytophagy — the ingestion of cells by other cells.
- decathlon — The decathlon is a competition in which athletes compete in 10 different sporting events.
- dichromat — a person whose vision can only distinguish two colours
- doomwatch — surveillance of the environment to warn of and prevent harm to it from human factors such as pollution or overpopulation
- eachother — (nonstandard) misspelling of each other Typically used in the context of
- escheator — a person appointed to deal with escheats
- facecloth — washcloth.
- flowchart — Also called flow sheet. a detailed diagram or chart of the operations and equipment through which material passes, as in a manufacturing process.
- fob watch — a pocket watch that is attached to a waistcoat by a chain or ribbon
- foreteach — to teach (something) ahead of time
- forthcame — Simple past form of forthcome.
- ghost car — an unmarked police car
- gnathonic — sycophantic; fawning.
- gonotheca — the part of the perisarc covering a gonangium.
- hackathon — a usually competitive event in which people work in groups on software or hardware projects, with the goal of creating a functioning product by the end of the event: At the hackathon our team produced an app that helps you monitor your sleeping habits.
- hacqueton — an upholstered garment for the upper body worn under chain mail or such a garment covered with chain mail
- haemocyte — Alternative spelling of hemocyte.
- haircloth — cloth of hair from the manes and tails of horses, woven with a cotton warp, and used for interlinings of clothes, upholstery, etc.
- halitotic — of or relating to halitosis
- 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.
- hardcourt — relating to a type of tennis court that is made of hard material
- hatch out — be hatched from an egg
- haycation — A vacation stay on a farm, in which guests often help out with daily farm tasks.
- headcloth — any cloth for covering the head, as a turban or wimple.
- headcount — The act of counting how many people are present in a group.
- headstock — the part of a machine containing or directly supporting the moving or working parts, as the assembly supporting and driving the live spindle in a lathe.
- hecatombs — Plural form of hecatomb.
- hectogram — a unit of mass or weight equal to 100 grams, equivalent to 3.527 ounces avoirdupois. Abbreviation: hg.
- hepatoxic — Exhibiting hepatoxicity.
- hierocrat — a person who believes in government by religious leaders
- hoatching — infested; swarming