9-letter words containing c, h, a, n
- encephala — Plural form of encephalon.
- enchained — Simple past form of enchain.
- enchanted — Simple past tense and past participle of enchant.
- enchanter — A person who uses magic or sorcery, esp. to put someone or something under a spell.
- enchasing — Present participle of enchase.
- encheason — a reason
- enchilada — A rolled tortilla with a filling typically of meat and served with a chili sauce.
- enchorial — Indigenous, native.
- enhancers — Plural form of enhancer.
- enhancing — Intensify, increase, or further improve the quality, value, or extent of.
- enhancive — Tending to enhance something.
- entrechat — A vertical jump during which the dancer repeatedly crosses the feet and beats them together.
- epiphanic — Having the character of a religious epiphany.
- ethnarchs — Plural form of ethnarch.
- eulachons — Plural form of eulachon.
- eunuchate — (transitive) To make a eunuch of; to castrate (a man).
- exchanged — Simple past tense and past participle of exchange.
- exchanger — A person or thing that exchanges one thing for another.
- exchanges — Plural form of exchange.
- falchions — Plural form of falchion.
- foodchain — Alternative spelling of food chain.
- franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- fratching — a quarrel; argument; dispute.
- frenchman — a native or inhabitant of the French nation.
- fu manchu — a mustache whose ends droop to the chin.
- gangpunch — to duplicate (a punch card's data) onto subsequent cards.
- gnathonic — sycophantic; fawning.
- goncharov — Ivan Alexandrovich [ih-vahn al-ig-zan-druh-vich,, -zahn-,, ahy-vuh n;; Russian ee-vahn uh-lyi-ksahn-druh-vyich] /ɪˈvɑn ˌæl ɪgˈzæn drə vɪtʃ,, -ˈzɑn-,, ˈaɪ vən;; Russian iˈvɑn ʌ lyɪˈksɑn drə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1812–91, Russian novelist.
- gonotheca — the part of the perisarc covering a gonangium.
- grauncher — a person who crushes or destroys
- gynarchic — relating to gynarchy or rule by women
- habitance — (obsolete) dwelling; abode; residence.
- habitancy — the act or fact of inhabiting; inhabitancy.
- hacendado — the owner of a hacienda.
- hachinohe — a city in N Honshu, Japan.
- hachuring — Present participle of hachure.
- haciendas — Plural form of hacienda.
- 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.
- hackneyed — let out, employed, or done for hire.
- hacqueton — an upholstered garment for the upper body worn under chain mail or such a garment covered with chain mail
- halcyonic — calm; peaceful; tranquil: halcyon weather.
- half cent — a bronze coin of the U.S., equal to one-half cent, issued at various periods between 1793 and 1857.
- half-inch — a half of an inch, equal to 1/24 of a foot (1.27 centimeters).
- halfpence — Plural form of halfpenny.
- 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.
- hand back — return, give back
- hand hack — (jargon) 1. (Or "hand cruft") To Translate a hot spot of a program in a HLL into assembly language by hand, as opposed to trying to coerce the compiler into generating better code. Both the term and the practice are becoming uncommon. See tune, bum. 2. More generally, manual construction or patching of data sets that would normally be generated by a translation utility and interpreted by another program, and aren't really designed to be read or modified by humans.
- hand-pick — to pick by hand.
- handcarry — to carry or deliver by hand, as for security reasons: The ambassador hand-carried a message from the president.