9-letter words containing c, h, i, a
- armchairs — Plural form of armchair.
- arthritic — Arthritic is used to describe the condition, the pain, or the symptoms of arthritis.
- artichoke — Artichokes or globe artichokes are round green vegetables that have fleshy leaves arranged like the petals of a flower.
- asphaltic — Resembling, containing, or relating to asphalt; bituminous.
- asthmatic — People who suffer from asthma are sometimes referred to as asthmatics.
- astichous — having a structure or layout that is not in rows
- atheistic — Atheistic means connected with or holding the belief that there is no God.
- athematic — not based on themes
- athetosic — relating to or characterized by athetosis
- athletics — Athletics refers to track and field sports such as running, the high jump, and the javelin.
- attaching — to fasten or affix; join; connect: to attach a photograph to an application with a staple.
- auschwitz — an industrial town in S Poland; site of a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. Pop: 40 686 (2007 est)
- ausgleich — the agreement (1867) that established the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary
- autarchic — absolute sovereignty.
- authentic — An authentic person, object, or emotion is genuine.
- avouching — Present participle of avouch.
- bacchical — Of or relating to Bacchus; hence, jovial, or riotous,with intoxication.
- backfisch — a teenage girl; a girl who has not yet reached maturity
- backlight — light falling on a photographic or television subject from the rear
- backshift — The changing of a present tense in direct speech to a past tense in reported speech (or a past tense to pluperfect).
- backshish — Alternative spelling of baksheesh.
- backsight — the sight of a rifle nearer the stock
- bakuchiol — A meroterpene phenol, extracted from seeds of Psoralea corylifolia, that shows antimicrobial activity.
- baldachin — a richly ornamented silk and gold brocade
- bar ditch — a roadside borrow pit dug for drainage purposes.
- barachois — (in the Atlantic Provinces of Canada) a shallow lagoon formed by a sand bar
- barocchio — Giacomo (ˈdʒakomo)
- batrachia — amphibians, including frogs and toads, which have gills and a tail in their larval state, which are discarded later in life
- beachside — situated near a beach
- bed chair — an adjustable frame for assisting invalids to sit up in bed.
- birdwatch — to watch birds
- bitchface — Also called resting bitchface, bitchy resting face, chronic bitchface. (especially of a woman) a facial expression that does not consciously express a particular emotion but that others perceive as scowling, threatening, etc.: I can’t help that I have resting bitchface. Her face naturally goes into a bitchface, but I promise she’s super friendly. I’m not angry, I just have chronic bitch face. Abbreviation: RBF. (especially of a woman) a deliberate facial expression of anger or disgust, often employed to appear unapproachable: I put on my bitchface when I ride the train so creepy guys don’t talk to me. It’s important to perfect your bitchface.
- blackfish — a minnow-like Alaskan freshwater fish, Dallia pectoralis, related to the pikes and thought to be able to survive prolonged freezing
- bleaching — to make whiter or lighter in color, as by exposure to sunlight or a chemical agent; remove the color from.
- brachiate — having widely divergent paired branches
- branchiae — the gills of an aquatic animal
- branchial — of or relating to the gills of an aquatic animal, esp a fish
- branching — the occurrence of several decay paths (branches) in the disintegration of a particular nuclide or the de-excitation of an excited atom. The branching fraction (nuclear) or branching ratio (atomic) is the proportion of the disintegrating nuclei that follow a particular branch to the total number of disintegrating nuclides
- branchio- — gills
- brash ice — small, floating fragments of sea ice or river ice.
- breaching — the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture.
- brechtian — Bertolt [ber-tawlt] /ˈbɛr tɔlt/ (Show IPA), 1898–1956, German dramatist and poet.
- bronchial — Bronchial means affecting or concerned with the bronchial tubes.
- cachaemia — a poisoned condition of the blood
- cachaemic — of or relating to cachaemia
- cache hit — (storage) A request to read from memory which can satisfied from the cache without using the main memory. Opposite: cache miss.
- cachectic — general ill health with emaciation, usually occurring in association with cancer or a chronic infectious disease.
- cachectin — Biochemistry, Immunology. a protein that is released by activated macrophages as an immune system defense and, when the defense is overwhelmed, is a cause of cachexia or toxic shock: in humans, identical with tumor necrosis factor.
- caddishly — in a caddish manner
- cadetship — a student in a national service academy or private military school or on a training ship.