9-letter words containing c, h, i, r, n
- 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.
- frenchify — to make (something or someone) resemble the French, as in manners, customs, or dress: to Frenchify the spelling of one's name.
- frenching — of, relating to, or characteristic of France, its inhabitants, or their language, culture, etc.: French cooking.
- greenwich — a borough in SE London, England: located on the prime meridian from which geographic longitude is measured; formerly the site of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
- grouching — Present participle of grouch.
- gynarchic — relating to gynarchy or rule by women
- hachuring — Present participle of hachure.
- 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).
- hectoring — Classical Mythology. the eldest son of Priam and husband of Andromache: the greatest Trojan hero in the Trojan War, killed by Achilles.
- hendricks — a male given name, form of Henry.
- henrician — of or having to do with the reign, policies, etc. of any king named Henry, esp. Henry VIII of England
- herceptin — a monoclonal antibody that inhibits the protein that can fuel tumour growth, used in the treatment of breast cancer
- hercynian — denoting a period of mountain building in Europe in the late Palaeozoic
- hercynite — a black oxide mineral, FeAl 2 O 4 , of the spinel group.
- heritance — inheritance.
- hindrance — an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
- hircinous — (rare) Of, or pertaining to goats; hircine.
- 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.
- honorific — Also, honorifical. doing or conferring honor.
- hurricane — a violent, tropical, cyclonic storm of the western North Atlantic, having wind speeds of or in excess of 72 miles per hour (32 m/sec). Compare tropical cyclone, typhoon.
- hurricano — (obsolete) A waterspout; a hurricane.
- hypericin — an antidepressant and antiviral compound derived from Saint John's wort
- hyrcanian — an ancient province of the Persian empire, SE of the Caspian Sea.
- in charge — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- 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.
- inarching — to graft by uniting a growing branch to a stock without separating the branch from its parent stock.
- inchworms — Plural form of inchworm.
- inherence — the state or fact of inhering or being inherent.
- inherency — inherence.
- interarch — to have intersecting arches
- isochrone — a line, as on a map, connecting all points having some property simultaneously, as in having the same delay in receiving a radio signal from a given source or requiring the same time to be reached by available transportation from a given center.
- isochrony — the fact or state of occurrence at the same time; contemporaneity.
- kitchener — Horatio Herbert (1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and of Broome) 1850–1916, English field marshal and statesman.
- lechering — a man given to excessive sexual indulgence; a lascivious or licentious man.
- lochinvar — the hero of a ballad included in the narrative poem Marmion (1808) by Sir Walter Scott.
- machinery — an assemblage of machines or mechanical apparatuses: the machinery of a factory.
- manchuria — a historic region in NE China: ancestral home of the Manchu. About 413,000 sq. mi. (1,070,000 sq. km).
- microinch — a unit of length equal to one millionth of an inch. Symbol: μin.
- microthin — extremely or, sometimes, microscopically thin: a microthin layer of aluminum.
- monarchic — of, like, or pertaining to a monarch or monarchy.
- monorchid — having or appearing to have only one testis.
- morphinic — of, pertaining to, or resembling morphine
- murchison — an intermittent river in W Australia, flowing SW to the Indian Ocean. 440 miles (708 km) long.
- necrophil — person who is sexually attracted to dead bodies
- nephritic — inflammation of the kidneys, especially in Bright's disease.
- nephrotic — Pertaining to, resembling or caused by nephrosis.
- neurochip — a semiconductor chip designed for use in an electronic neural network