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9-letter words containing c, h, o, u

  • lockhouse — the house of a lock-keeper
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • manchukuo — a former country (1932–45) in E Asia, under Japanese control: included Manchuria and parts of Inner Mongolia; now a part of China.
  • mascouche — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
  • mizoguchi — Kenji (ˈkɛndʒɪ). 1898–1956, Japanese film director. His films include A Paper Doll's Whisper of Spring (1925), Woman of Osaka (1940), and Ugetsu Monogatari (1952)
  • mouchette — a daggerlike form, especially in tracery, created by a segmental and an ogee curve so that it is pointed at one end and circular at the other.
  • moustache — the hair growing on the upper lip.
  • mummachog — Alternative form of mummichog.
  • mummichog — a silver and black killifish, Fundulus heteroclitus, found in fresh, brackish, and salt water along the Atlantic coast of the U.S.
  • mummychog — Alternative form of mummichog.
  • munch out — to chew with steady or vigorous working of the jaws, often audibly.
  • murchison — an intermittent river in W Australia, flowing SW to the Indian Ocean. 440 miles (708 km) long.
  • mustachio — a mustache.
  • neurochip — a semiconductor chip designed for use in an electronic neural network
  • nonchurch — not associated with the Christian church
  • nouthetic — Being or relating to a form of Evangelical Protestant pastoral counseling based upon the Bible and focused on Christ.
  • octateuch — the first eight books of the Old Testament, consisting of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, and Ruth, or a volume containing them.
  • old dutch — the Dutch language before c1100. Abbreviation: OD, OD., O.D.
  • ophiuchus — a large constellation lying on the celestial equator between Hercules and Scorpius and containing the dark nebula, Ophiuchus Nebula
  • outcharge — to charge more than
  • outlaunch — to send out
  • outpreach — to outdo in preaching or overcome by preaching
  • outscheme — to outdo in scheming
  • outsearch — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
  • pachomius — Saint, a.d. 292?–348? Egyptian ascetic: founder of the cenobitical form of monasticism.
  • patchogue — a town on S Long Island, in SE New York.
  • patchouli — a plant, Pogostemon cablin, of tropical Asia, that yields a fragrant oil (patchouli oil) used in the manufacture of perfumes.
  • pathocure — Psychiatry. cessation of a neurosis with the appearance of an organic disease.
  • prochurch — favourable to the church
  • proseucha — a place of prayer, esp for Jewish worship
  • psych out — to intimidate or frighten psychologically, or make nervous (often followed by out): to psych out the competition.
  • psych-out — an act or instance of psyching out.
  • punch out — a thrusting blow, especially with the fist.
  • punch-out — a small section of cardboard or metal surrounded by perforations so that it can be easily forced out.
  • punchbowl — a large bowl from which punch, lemonade, etc., is served, usually with a ladle.
  • quebracho — any of several tropical American trees of the genus Schinopsis, having very hard wood, especially S. lorentzii, the wood and bark of which are important in tanning and dyeing.
  • quoad hoc — as much as this; to this extent.
  • rhizocaul — a rootlike stem or stalk
  • rockhound — a person who collects or who is interested in rocks and minerals
  • rotachute — a device serving the same purpose as a parachute, in which the canopy is replaced by freely revolving rotor blades, used for the delivery of stores or recovery of missiles
  • rough-cut — cut into small, irregular pieces (contrasted with fine-cut): rough-cut tobacco.
  • roughback — any of several large American flatfishes having rough skin, especially Hippoglossoides platessoides, a species of plaice.
  • roughcast — Also called spatter dash. an exterior wall finish composed of mortar and fine pebbles mixed together and dashed against the wall. Compare pebble dash.
  • roughneck — a rough, coarse person; a tough.
  • roundarch — having rounded arches
  • schomburg — Arthur Alfonso, 1874–1938, U.S. scholar and collector of books on black literature and history, born in Puerto Rico.
  • scirrhous — of a hard, fibrous consistency.
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