9-letter words containing c, h, o, l, a
- glochidia — glochid.
- haemocoel — (biology) A cavity, between the organs of arthropods and mollusks, through which the blood etc. circulates.
- 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.
- halcyonic — calm; peaceful; tranquil: halcyon weather.
- half-cock — to set the hammer of (a firearm) at half cock.
- halitotic — of or relating to halitosis
- halocline — a well-defined vertical salinity gradient in ocean or other saline water.
- halomancy — Divination by use of salt. This is the origin for the superstition of spilled salt.
- haplontic — (chiefly of an alga or other lower plant) having a life cycle in which the main form is haploid, with a diploid zygote being formed only briefly.
- hard coal — anthracite.
- head cold — a form of the common cold characterized especially by nasal congestion and sneezing.
- headcloth — any cloth for covering the head, as a turban or wimple.
- headlocks — Plural form of headlock.
- heliconia — any of a genus of tropical flowering plants with long flowering panicles
- 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.
- holocaust — a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.
- homeplace — a person's birthplace or family home.
- homicidal — of or relating to homicide.
- hoolachan — a Highland reel
- housecarl — a member of the household troops or bodyguard of a Danish or early English king or noble.
- 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.
- 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
- leucothea — a sea goddess, the deified Ino, who gave Odysseus a veil as a float after a storm had destroyed his raft.
- localhost — (computing) The computer being used locally, contrasted with remote computers elsewhere on a network.
- lochinvar — the hero of a ballad included in the narrative poem Marmion (1808) by Sir Walter Scott.
- logomachy — a dispute about or concerning words.
- 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.
- monarchal — pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a monarch: monarchal pomp.
- moschatel — a small plant, Adoxa moschatellina, having greenish or yellowish flowers with a musky odor.
- nahcolite — a carbonate mineral, naturally occurring sodium bicarbonate, NaHCO 3 .
- 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.
- 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.
- outlaunch — to send out
- packcloth — a cloth used for packing
- parochial — of, relating to, or financially supported by one or more church parishes: parochial churches in Great Britain.