9-letter words containing c, h, l, o
- luncheons — Plural form of luncheon.
- lunchhook — Usually, lunchhooks. hands.
- lunchroom — a room, as in a school, where light meals or snacks can be bought or where food brought from home may be eaten.
- lynch mob — A lynch mob is an angry crowd of people who want to kill someone without a trial, because they believe that person has committed a crime.
- lyophilic — noting a colloid the particles of which have a strong affinity for the liquid in which they are dispersed.
- lyophobic — noting a colloid the particles of which have little or no affinity for the liquid in which they are dispersed.
- macrolith — a stone tool about 1 foot (30 cm) long.
- mailcoach — a railway coach specially constructed for the transportation of mail
- matchlock — an old form of gunlock in which the priming was ignited by a slow match.
- matholwch — a legendary king of Ireland and the husband of Branwen.
- michelson — Albert Abraham, 1852–1931, U.S. physicist, born in Prussia (now Poland): Nobel prize 1907.
- 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.
- milch cow — milk cow.
- molochise — sacrifice to deity
- molochize — to offer up or immolate to a god
- monarchal — pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a monarch: monarchal pomp.
- moonchild — a person born under the zodiacal sign of Cancer.
- mortcloth — a funeral cloth spread over a coffin
- moschatel — a small plant, Adoxa moschatellina, having greenish or yellowish flowers with a musky odor.
- mycophile — A person who likes hunting for, cooking or eating mushrooms and other edible fungi.
- nahcolite — a carbonate mineral, naturally occurring sodium bicarbonate, NaHCO 3 .
- neckcloth — cravat (def 2).
- necrophil — person who is sexually attracted to dead bodies
- neolithic — (sometimes lowercase) Anthropology. of, relating to, or characteristic of the last phase of the Stone Age, marked by the domestication of animals, the development of agriculture, and the manufacture of pottery and textiles: commonly thought to have begun c9000–8000 b.c. in the Middle East. Compare Mesolithic, Paleolithic.
- nicholson — Ben, 1894–1982, British abstract painter.
- nonschool — not relating to school
- ochlagogy — (rare) Manipulation of a mob by use of inflammatory rhetoric, casting opprobrium, and by appeal to the lowest common denominator generally; extreme and wholly unscrupulous demagogy; the practice of an ochlagogue.
- ochlocrat — An adherent of the principle of ochlocracy; a advocate of mob rule.
- ohmically — By means of ohmic heating, the process by which the passage of an electric current through a conductor releases heat.
- oil patch — an area in which oil is produced.
- old dutch — the Dutch language before c1100. Abbreviation: OD, OD., O.D.
- 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.
- opthalmic — Misspelling of ophthalmic.
- orichalch — Alternative form of orichalcum.
- otolithic — Of or partaining to an otolith.
- outlaunch — to send out
- overchill — to make too cold
- oxyphilic — acidophilic.
- packcloth — a cloth used for packing
- parochial — of, relating to, or financially supported by one or more church parishes: parochial churches in Great Britain.
- patchouli — a plant, Pogostemon cablin, of tropical Asia, that yields a fragrant oil (patchouli oil) used in the manufacture of perfumes.
- peachblow — a delicate purplish pink.
- phacolite — a colorless variety of chabazite.
- phacolith — a layer of igneous rock, which has the structure of a lens, and which occurs in an invasive position in sedimentary rock
- phenolics — any of the class of thermosetting resins formed by the condensation of phenol, or of a phenol derivative, with an aldehyde, especially formaldehyde: used chiefly in the manufacture of paints and plastics and as adhesives for sandpaper and plywood.
- photocall — a time arranged for photographers, esp press photographers, to take pictures of a celebrity, the cast of a play, etc, usually for publicity purposes
- photocell — a solid-state device that converts light into electrical energy by producing a voltage, as in a photovoltaic cell, or uses light to regulate the flow of current, as in a photoconductive cell: used in automatic control systems for doors, lighting, etc.
- phthiocol — a yellow crystalline substance, C 1 1 H 8 O 3 , produced by the human tubercle bacillus, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, having antibiotic and blood-clotting properties.
- phycology — the branch of botany dealing with algae.