9-letter words containing c, h, e, i, l
- echoingly — In an echoing way.
- echolalia — Psychiatry. the uncontrollable and immediate repetition of words spoken by another person.
- echolalic — (clinical psychology) Of or pertaining to echolalia.
- elenchtic — Alternative form of elenctic.
- enchilada — A rolled tortilla with a filling typically of meat and served with a chili sauce.
- enchorial — Indigenous, native.
- eparchial — Of or pertaining to an eparchy.
- epilithic — (of plants) growing on the surface of rock
- epithecal — (microbiology, planktology) Of or pertaining to the epitheca, the upper half of the shell of certain types of plankton.
- etherical — relating to ether
- ethically — In an ethical manner.
- ethicless — Without ethics.
- ethylenic — (organic chemistry) Containing ethylene or an ethylene derivative.
- euchloric — relating to euchlorine
- flenching — Present participle of flench.
- fletching — the feathers on an arrow, which stabilize it during flight.
- gelechiid — any of numerous small moths of the family Gelechiidae, including many crop pests, as the Angoumois grain moth and potato tuberworm.
- gemutlich — comfortable and pleasant; cozy.
- geophilic — soil-loving
- guilloche — an ornamental pattern or border, as in architecture, consisting of paired ribbons or lines flowing in interlaced curves around a series of circular voids.
- hair cell — an epithelial cell having hairlike processes, as that of the organ of Corti.
- halieutic — Of or pertaining to fishing.
- halocline — a well-defined vertical salinity gradient in ocean or other saline water.
- head lice — lice which lay eggs in human hair
- heelpiece — Shoemaking. a piece of leather, wood, or other material serving as the heel of a shoe, boot, or the like. such a piece used in repairing a heel.
- helically — pertaining to or having the form of a helix; spiral.
- helicline — a curved ramp.
- helicoids — Plural form of helicoid.
- heliconia — any of a genus of tropical flowering plants with long flowering panicles
- helictite — A speleothem found in limestone caves that changes its axis from the vertical at one or more stages during its growth.
- helidecks — Plural form of helideck.
- heliozoic — denoting or relating to a heliozoan
- helvetica — (text) One of the most widely used sans-serif typefaces, developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger with Eduard Hoffmann. Originally called Neue Haas Grotesk, it was renamed Helvetica for the international market. Helvetica is very similar to the common Arial typeface. The name is Latin for Swiss.
- hemicycle — a semicircle.
- hemolytic — the breaking down of red blood cells with liberation of hemoglobin.
- heraclius — a.d. 575?–641, Byzantine emperor 610–641.
- heretical — of, relating to, or characteristic of heretics or heresy.
- hillcrest — The crest of a hill.
- holocrine — (of a gland) releasing a secretion that is a product of disintegrating cells.
- homeslice — Alternative spelling of home slice (Someone from one's home town.).
- homiletic — of or relating to preaching or to homilies.
- horotelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate standard for a given group of plants or animals.
- ice shelf — an ice sheet projecting into coastal waters so that the end floats.
- inclineth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incline.
- kickwheel — a potter's wheel rotated by kicking.
- la chaise — Père François d'Aix de [frahn-swa de duh] /frɑ̃ˈswa dɛ də/ (Show IPA), 1624–1709, French Roman Catholic priest: confessor to Louis XIV.
- lechering — a man given to excessive sexual indulgence; a lascivious or licentious man.
- leechlike — Resembling a leech or some aspect of one; clinging, parasitic.
- lethargic — of, relating to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish; apathetic.
- lich gate — a roofed gate to a churchyard under which a bier is set down during a burial service to await the coming of the clergyman.