9-letter words containing c, h, o, k
- hockshops — (US, rare) Plural form of hockshop.
- hogchoker — a sole, Trinectes maculatus, found in coastal streams from Maine to Texas and south to Panama.
- 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.
- 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.
- honeycake — A cake made with honey, especially as a Rosh Hashanah tradition.
- hoop back — a chair back having the uprights and crest rail in a continuous arched form.
- hornwrack — a yellowish bryozoan or sea mat sometimes found on beaches after a storm
- horseback — the back of a horse.
- hose-cock — a threaded exterior faucet, as for attaching a garden hose.
- hotchkiss — Hazel, Wightman, Hazel Hotchkiss.
- jock itch — a fungal infection of the skin in the groin area, occurring most commonly in males, especially in warm climates, characterized by itchy and often scaly lesions; tinea cruris.
- jockeyish — resembling a jockey
- 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.
- kirchhoff — Gustav Robert [goo s-tahf roh-bert] /ˈgʊs tɑf ˈroʊ bɛrt/ (Show IPA), 1824–87, German physicist.
- kiungchow — Qiongzhou.
- kluckhohn — Clyde (Kay Maben) [mey-buh n] /ˈmeɪ bən/ (Show IPA), 1905–60, American anthropologist.
- kokoschka — Oskar [aws-kahr] /ˈɔs kɑr/ (Show IPA), 1886–1980, Austrian painter and dramatist.
- kuangchou — Wade-Giles. Canton.
- kurchatov — Igor Vasilievich [ee-guh r-vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /ˈi gər vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1903–60, Soviet nuclear physicist.
- kwangchow — Older Spelling. Canton.
- lockhouse — the house of a lock-keeper
- locksmith — a person who makes or repairs locks and keys.
- lunchhook — Usually, lunchhooks. hands.
- manchukuo — a former country (1932–45) in E Asia, under Japanese control: included Manchuria and parts of Inner Mongolia; now a part of China.
- matchbook — a small cardboard folder into which several rows of paper matches are stapled or glued.
- matchlock — an old form of gunlock in which the priming was ignited by a slow match.
- mechnikov — Ilya Ilyich [ee-lyah ee-lyeech] /iˈlyɑ iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), Metchnikoff, Élie.
- neckcloth — cravat (def 2).
- notchback — a style of back for an automobile in which there is a sharp vertical drop-off from the roof line to the trunk.
- overcheck — a textile pattern having one checked design superimposed on another so that both are visible.
- overthick — too thick
- pack shot — (in television advertising) a close-up of the product being advertised, usually so that the viewer can register its logo and packaging
- packcloth — a cloth used for packing
- packhorse — a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.
- patchwork — something made up of an incongruous variety of pieces or parts; hodgepodge: a patchwork of verse forms.
- pinchcock — a clamp for compressing a flexible pipe, as a rubber tube, in order to regulate or stop the flow of a fluid.
- pitchfork — a large, long-handled fork for manually lifting and pitching hay, stalks of grain, etc.
- pork chop — cutlet of pig meat
- rock hill — a city in N South Carolina.
- rock hind — a small, orange-spotted grouper, Epinephelus adscensionis, inhabiting warm seas from North Carolina to Brazil, especially in the West Indies, and fished as food.
- rock-hard — Something that is rock-hard is very hard indeed.
- rockhound — a person who collects or who is interested in rocks and minerals
- rockshaft — an oscillating shaft.
- rodchenko — Aleksandr (Mikhailovich) [al-ig-zan-der,, -zahn-,, mi-key-luh-vich;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahn-dr myi-khahy-luh-vyich] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər,, -ˈzɑn-,, mɪˈkeɪ lə vɪtʃ;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr myɪˈxaɪ lə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1891–1956, Soviet painter, photographer, and designer.
- roughback — any of several large American flatfishes having rough skin, especially Hippoglossoides platessoides, a species of plaice.
- roughneck — a rough, coarse person; a tough.
- sackcloth — sacking.
- schlocker — something of poor quality; schlock
- schnorkel — (formerly) snorkel (def 1).