9-letter words containing c, h, l, o
- cholerine — (pathology) Minor diarrhea that happens during outbreaks of cholera.
- chololith — cholelith.
- choluteca — a city in S Honduras.
- chondrule — one of the small spherical masses of mainly silicate minerals present in chondrites
- choosable — to select from a number of possibilities; pick by preference: She chose Sunday for her departure.
- chopblock — butcher-block.
- choplogic — excessively complicated argument
- choralist — a person who sings in a chorus or ensemble
- chordless — Lacking chords.
- choroidal — relating to the choroid
- chorology — the study of the causal relations between geographical phenomena occurring within a particular region
- chortling — to chuckle gleefully.
- chow hall — canteen, refectory
- chronical — relating to or controlled by time
- chronicle — To chronicle a series of events means to write about them or show them in broadcasts in the order in which they happened.
- chuckhole — a pothole
- closehead — the entrance to a tenement close
- cloth cap — A cloth cap is a soft flat cap with a stiff, curved part at the front called a peak. Cloth caps are usually worn by men.
- cloth-cap — pertaining to or characteristic of the working class.
- clothiers — Plural form of clothier.
- clothings — Plural form of clothing.
- clothyard — (historical) An old unit of measure for cloth, 36 or 37 inches.
- clownfish — any of several brightly coloured striped fish of the subfamily Amphiprioninae of the Pacific and Indian Oceans
- clubhouse — A clubhouse is a place where the members of a club, especially a sports club, meet.
- coachable — capable of being coached
- coachline — a decorative line on the bodywork of a motor vehicle
- coachload — A coachload of people is a group of people who are travelling somewhere together in a coach.
- coalhouse — a shed or building for storing coal
- coccolith — any of the round calcareous plates in chalk formations: formed the outer layer of unicellular plankton
- cochineal — Cochineal is a red substance that is used for colouring food.
- cochleate — shaped like a snail's shell; spirally twisted
- cogwheels — Plural form of cogwheel.
- cohesible — capable of cohesion
- colchicum — any Eurasian liliaceous plant of the genus Colchicum, such as the autumn crocus
- colcothar — a finely powdered form of ferric oxide produced by heating ferric sulphate and used as a pigment and as jewellers' rouge
- cold cash — money paid in full at the time of a business transaction
- cold fish — If you say that someone is a cold fish, you think that they are unfriendly and unemotional.
- cold shut — A cold shut is a fault in the surface of a piece of metal caused by two streams of molten metal not joining properly when the piece is being cast.
- coldhouse — an unheated greenhouse
- coliphage — a bacteriophage
- colocynth — a cucurbitaceous climbing plant, Citrullus colocynthis, of the Mediterranean region and Asia, having bitter-tasting fruit
- colophons — Plural form of colophon.
- colophony — rosin
- coltishly — In a coltish manner.
- coolhouse — a greenhouse in which a cool temperature is maintained
- coolibahs — Plural form of coolibah.
- coprolith — a hard stony mass of dried faeces in the intestine that is caused by chronic constipation
- copyholds — Plural form of copyhold.
- cothurnal — relating to the cothurnus or to tragedy
- cromlechs — Plural form of cromlech.