9-letter words containing c, h, e, d
- chuntered — Simple past tense and past participle of chunter.
- cichlidae — the family of cichlid fish
- clarthead — a slow-witted or stupid person
- closehead — the entrance to a tenement close
- clunkhead — a stupid or foolish person.
- codeshare — (aviation) Agreement whereby an airline buys space on another airline and markets the extra space as its own. Often used to increase a route network without the costs of running a full service.
- codfishes — Plural form of codfish.
- cohabited — 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.
- cokeheads — Plural form of cokehead.
- coldhouse — an unheated greenhouse
- cosphered — sharing the same sphere
- cot death — Cot death is the sudden death of a baby while it is asleep, although the baby had not previously been ill.
- crackhead — a person addicted to the drug crack
- crisphead — a variety of lettuce with a dense cabbage-like head and mild crunchy leaves
- crocheted — made with a crochet hook
- crossed-h — a constant used in quantum mechanics, equal to the Planck constant divided by 2π. It has a value of 1.054571596±0.000000078 × 10 −34 joule seconds
- crosshead — a subsection or paragraph heading printed within the body of the text
- cupholder — a competitor who has won or successfully defended a specific cup, trophy, championship, etc.; champion.
- curlyhead — a person whose hair is curly.
- cushioned — provided with cushions
- dancehall — a style of dance-oriented reggae, originating in the late 1980s
- death cap — a poisonous woodland saprotrophic basidiomycetous fungus, Amanita phalloides, differing from the edible mushroom (Agaricus) only in its white gills (pinkish-brown in Agaricus) and the presence of a volva
- death cup — a poisonous mushroom of the genus Amanita.
- debauched — If you describe someone as debauched, you mean they behave in a way that you think is socially unacceptable, for example because they drink a lot of alcohol or have sex with a lot of people.
- debauchee — a man who leads a life of reckless drinking, promiscuity, and self-indulgence
- debaucher — to corrupt by sensuality, intemperance, etc.; seduce.
- debauches — to corrupt by sensuality, intemperance, etc.; seduce.
- debouched — Simple past tense and past participle of debouche.
- debouches — to march out from a narrow or confined place into open country, as a body of troops: The platoon debouched from the defile into the plain.
- dec alpha — (processor) A RISC microprocessor from DEC. In November 1995, the Alpha was purportedly the fastest non-research chip used in commonly available workstations. It is superpipelined and superscalar. In February 1996 it was clocked at 200 MHz and in March 1998 at 666 MHz.
- decachord — a ten-stringed musical instrument
- decahedra — plural form of singular decahedron: solid figure with ten plane faces
- decastich — a poem that consists of ten lines
- decathect — to withdraw one's feelings of attachment from (a person, idea, or object), as in anticipation of a future loss: He decathected from her in order to cope with her impending death.
- decathlon — The decathlon is a competition in which athletes compete in 10 different sporting events.
- déchéance — the act of forfeiting something
- dechunker — chunker
- deciphers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decipher.
- deck hand — a seaman assigned various duties, such as mooring and cargo handling, on the deck of a ship
- deck hook — hook1 (def 16).
- deck shoe — Deck shoes are flat casual shoes made of canvas or leather.
- deckchair — A deckchair is a simple chair with a folding frame, and a piece of canvas as the seat and back. Deckchairs are usually used on the beach, on a ship, or in the garden.
- deckhouse — a houselike cabin on the deck of a ship
- declareth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'declare'.
- decoherer — a device that re-establishes a coherer to usual levels of receptiveness
- dehiscent — (of fruits, anthers, etc) opening spontaneously to release seeds or pollen
- delaroche — (Hippolyte) Paul. 1797–1859, French painter of portraits and sentimental historical scenes, such as The Children of Edward IV in the Tower (1830)
- den chief — (in the Boy Scouts) a boy scout who supervises a cub scout den in cooperation with a den mother or den father.
- deschamps — Émile (French emil), full name Émile Deschamps de Saint-Armand. 1791–1871, French poet, dramatist, and librettist: a leading figure in the French romantic movement