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9-letter words containing c, h, l, o, r

  • clothiers — Plural form of clothier.
  • clothyard — (historical) An old unit of measure for cloth, 36 or 37 inches.
  • colcothar — a finely powdered form of ferric oxide produced by heating ferric sulphate and used as a pigment and as jewellers' rouge
  • coprolith — a hard stony mass of dried faeces in the intestine that is caused by chronic constipation
  • cothurnal — relating to the cothurnus or to tragedy
  • cromlechs — Plural form of cromlech.
  • cryolathe — an instrument for reshaping the cornea to correct severe nearsightedness or farsightedness: the cornea is removed from the eye, rapidly frozen, reshaped, and reinserted.
  • cryophile — (biology) An organism that thrives at low temperatures.
  • cupholder — a competitor who has won or successfully defended a specific cup, trophy, championship, etc.; champion.
  • delaroche — (Hippolyte) Paul. 1797–1859, French painter of portraits and sentimental historical scenes, such as The Children of Edward IV in the Tower (1830)
  • dolichuri — poetic term
  • dropcloth — A large piece of plastic or canvas put over something to protect it from construction debris or paint.
  • enchorial — Indigenous, native.
  • euchloric — relating to euchlorine
  • flowchart — Also called flow sheet. a detailed diagram or chart of the operations and equipment through which material passes, as in a manufacturing process.
  • forecloth — a cloth hung over the front of something, esp an altar
  • grouchily — In a grouchy manner.
  • hair-lock — a curl of the hair of the head
  • haircloth — cloth of hair from the manes and tails of horses, woven with a cotton warp, and used for interlinings of clothes, upholstery, etc.
  • hard coal — anthracite.
  • holandric — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in males (opposed to hologynic).
  • holarctic — belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising the Nearctic and Palearctic regions.
  • hole card — Stud Poker. the card dealt face down in the first round of a deal.
  • holocrine — (of a gland) releasing a secretion that is a product of disintegrating cells.
  • horologic — of or relating to horology.
  • horotelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate standard for a given group of plants or animals.
  • housecarl — a member of the household troops or bodyguard of a Danish or early English king or noble.
  • hydrocele — an accumulation of serous fluid, usually about the testis.
  • lecherous — given to or characterized by lechery; lustful.
  • lochinvar — the hero of a ballad included in the narrative poem Marmion (1808) by Sir Walter Scott.
  • lunchroom — a room, as in a school, where light meals or snacks can be bought or where food brought from home may be eaten.
  • macrolith — a stone tool about 1 foot (30 cm) long.
  • microlith — a tiny stone tool, often of geometric shape, made from a bladelet and mounted singly or in series as the working part of a composite tool or weapon, especially during late Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic times.
  • monarchal — pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a monarch: monarchal pomp.
  • mortcloth — a funeral cloth spread over a coffin
  • necrophil — person who is sexually attracted to dead bodies
  • ochlocrat — An adherent of the principle of ochlocracy; a advocate of mob rule.
  • oligarchs — Plural form of oligarch.
  • oligarchy — a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few.
  • orichalch — Alternative form of orichalcum.
  • overchill — to make too cold
  • parochial — of, relating to, or financially supported by one or more church parishes: parochial churches in Great Britain.
  • plethoric — overfull; turgid; inflated: a plethoric, pompous speech.
  • polemarch — (in ancient Greece) a civilian official, originally a supreme general
  • polyarchy — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
  • preschool — of, relating to, or intended for a child between infancy and school age: new methods of preschool education.
  • reblochon — a soft French cheese
  • rhizocaul — a rootlike stem or stalk
  • rhyolitic — a fine-grained igneous rock rich in silica: the volcanic equivalent of granite.
  • rock hill — a city in N South Carolina.
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