9-letter words containing c, h, l, o
- heliconia — any of a genus of tropical flowering plants with long flowering panicles
- heliozoic — denoting or relating to a heliozoan
- hemocoels — Plural form of hemocoel.
- hemolytic — the breaking down of red blood cells with liberation of hemoglobin.
- 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.
- hold back — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
- holdbacks — Plural form of holdback.
- hole card — Stud Poker. the card dealt face down in the first round of a deal.
- hollyhock — any of several plants belonging to the genus Alcea (or Althaea), of the mallow family, native to Eurasia, especially A. rosea, a tall plant having a long cluster of showy, variously colored flowers.
- holocaust — a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.
- holoclone — (biology) A colony-forming stem cell that has a higher growth potential than a meroclone because it does not contain differentiated cells.
- 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).
- holotypic — Relating to a holotype.
- holy city — a city regarded as particularly sacred by the adherents of a religious faith, as Jerusalem by Jews and Christians, Mecca and Medina by Muslims, and Varanasi by Hindus.
- homeplace — a person's birthplace or family home.
- homeslice — Alternative spelling of home slice (Someone from one's home town.).
- homicidal — of or relating to homicide.
- homiletic — of or relating to preaching or to homilies.
- homologic — Homological.
- homolytic — Of, pertaining to, or produced by homolysis.
- homunculi — an artificially made dwarf, supposedly produced in a flask by an alchemist.
- hoolachan — a Highland reel
- 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.
- hypocotyl — the part of a plant embryo directly below the cotyledons, forming a connection with the radicle.
- 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.
- kalanchoe — any of several chiefly African and Asian succulent plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Kalanchoe, of the stonecrop family, having mostly opposite leaves and branching clusters of flowers.
- kluckhohn — Clyde (Kay Maben) [mey-buh n] /ˈmeɪ bən/ (Show IPA), 1905–60, American anthropologist.
- laccolith — a mass of igneous rock formed from magma that did not find its way to the surface but spread laterally into a lenticular body, forcing overlying strata to bulge upward.
- lamb chop — cutlets of young sheep's meat
- lecherous — given to or characterized by lechery; lustful.
- leucothea — a sea goddess, the deified Ino, who gave Odysseus a veil as a float after a storm had destroyed his raft.
- leucothoe — any of various shrubs of the genus Leucothoe, of the heath family, having clusters of white or pinkish flowers.
- lichenous — of, relating to, or resembling a lichen.
- lithocyst — a sac, containing otoliths, found in many invertebrates, supposedly connected to hearing and orientation
- localhost — (computing) The computer being used locally, contrasted with remote computers elsewhere on a network.
- loch ness — a lake in NW Scotland, near Inverness. 23 miles (37 km) long.
- lochinvar — the hero of a ballad included in the narrative poem Marmion (1808) by Sir Walter Scott.
- lockhouse — the house of a lock-keeper
- locksmith — a person who makes or repairs locks and keys.
- logomachy — a dispute about or concerning words.
- loin chop — a small piece of meat cut from the loin
- loincloth — a piece of cloth worn around the loins or hips, especially in tropical regions as the only item of clothing.
- longcloth — a fine, white, cotton cloth, of plain weave; high-grade muslin.
- lovechild — A child born to parents who aren't married to one another.
- lunch box — a small container, usually of metal or plastic and with a handle, for carrying one's lunch from home to school or work.