9-letter words containing c, h, i, n, o
- echinoids — Plural form of echinoid.
- echogenic — capable of generating or reflecting sound waves.
- echoingly — In an echoing way.
- enchorial — Indigenous, native.
- endorheic — (of a lake or basin) Internally drained; having no outlet.
- ethnocide — The deliberate and systematic destruction of the culture of an ethnic group.
- eunuchoid — Resembling a eunuch, typically in having reduced or indeterminate sexual characteristics.
- falchions — Plural form of falchion.
- finocchio — Florence fennel.
- foodchain — Alternative spelling of food chain.
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- gnathonic — sycophantic; fawning.
- goldfinch — a European finch, Carduelis carduelis, having a crimson face and wings marked with yellow.
- grouching — Present participle of grouch.
- hachinohe — a city in N Honshu, Japan.
- halcyonic — calm; peaceful; tranquil: halcyon weather.
- halocline — a well-defined vertical salinity gradient in ocean or other saline water.
- 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.
- harmonica — Also called mouth organ. a musical wind instrument consisting of a small rectangular case containing a set of metal reeds connected to a row of holes, over which the player places the mouth and exhales and inhales to produce the tones.
- harmonics — Music. overtone (def 1).
- haycation — A vacation stay on a farm, in which guests often help out with daily farm tasks.
- hecogenin — a steroid occurring naturally in plants and used in drugs including cortisone
- hectoring — Classical Mythology. the eldest son of Priam and husband of Andromache: the greatest Trojan hero in the Trojan War, killed by Achilles.
- hegemonic — having hegemony, or dominance: the ruling party's hegemonic control of all facets of society.
- heliconia — any of a genus of tropical flowering plants with long flowering panicles
- hemogenic — Of, or relating to the production of blood cells.
- hick town — an insulting way of referring to a small town in the countryside that is not deemed to be very sophisticated
- hircinous — (rare) Of, or pertaining to goats; hircine.
- hoatching — infested; swarming
- holandric — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in males (opposed to hologynic).
- holocrine — (of a gland) releasing a secretion that is a product of disintegrating cells.
- hologynic — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in females (opposed to holandric).
- homogenic — having only one alternative form, or one allele, of a gene or genes: The plagues attacked relatively homogenic populations.
- homonymic — Phonetics. a word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning, whether spelled the same way or not, as heir and air; a homophone (def 1).
- homotonic — of the same tone
- homunculi — an artificially made dwarf, supposedly produced in a flask by an alchemist.
- honorific — Also, honorifical. doing or conferring honor.
- hoochinoo — a type of distilled liquor made by Alaskan Indians.
- hurricano — (obsolete) A waterspout; a hurricane.
- hynagogic — Misspelling of hypnagogic.
- hypnotics — Plural form of hypnotic.
- hypogenic — formed beneath the earth's surface, as granite (opposed to epigene).
- hypomanic — Afflicted with a mild state of mania.
- hyponymic — Of or pertaining to hyponyms.
- hypopneic — of or relating to hypopnoea
- hypotonic — Physiology. (of tissue) having less than the normal tone.
- ichneumon — Also called African mongoose, Egyptian mongoose. a slender, long-tailed mongoose, Herpestes ichneumon, inhabiting Africa and southern Europe, and believed by the ancient Egyptians to devour crocodile eggs.
- ichnology — the branch of paleontology concerned with the study of fossilized tracks, trails, burrows, borings, or other trace fossils as evidence of the occurrence or behavior of the organisms that produced them.
- in chorus — Music. a group of persons singing in unison. (in an opera, oratorio, etc.) such a group singing choral parts in connection with soloists or individual singers. a piece of music for singing in unison. a part of a song that recurs at intervals, usually following each verse; refrain.
- inchworms — Plural form of inchworm.