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9-letter words containing c, h, o, l, e

  • 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.
  • hole card — Stud Poker. the card dealt face down in the first round of a deal.
  • 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.
  • homeplace — a person's birthplace or family home.
  • homeslice — Alternative spelling of home slice (Someone from one's home town.).
  • homiletic — of or relating to preaching or to homilies.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • loch ness — a lake in NW Scotland, near Inverness. 23 miles (37 km) long.
  • lockhouse — the house of a lock-keeper
  • lovechild — A child born to parents who aren't married to one another.
  • luncheons — Plural form of luncheon.
  • michelson — Albert Abraham, 1852–1931, U.S. physicist, born in Prussia (now Poland): Nobel prize 1907.
  • molochise — sacrifice to deity
  • molochize — to offer up or immolate to a god
  • 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.
  • overchill — to make too cold
  • peachblow — a delicate purplish pink.
  • phacolite — a colorless variety of chabazite.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • picholine — a variety of mild green olive from France which is cured in salt brine
  • pitchpole — (of a boat) to capsize end over end, as in heavy surf.
  • plethoric — overfull; turgid; inflated: a plethoric, pompous speech.
  • poachable — able to be poached
  • polemarch — (in ancient Greece) a civilian official, originally a supreme general
  • preschool — of, relating to, or intended for a child between infancy and school age: new methods of preschool education.
  • reblochon — a soft French cheese
  • schlocker — something of poor quality; schlock
  • schnorkel — (formerly) snorkel (def 1).
  • schnorkle — (formerly) snorkel (def 1).
  • schnozzle — a nose, especially one of unusually large size.
  • schofield — John McAllister [muh-kal-i-ster] /məˈkæl ɪ stər/ (Show IPA), 1831–1906, U.S. general.
  • schoolery — something that is taught
  • sexaholic — a person who is addicted to sex
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