9-letter words containing c, h, o
- bronchium — a medium-sized bronchial tube
- brythonic — the S group of Celtic languages, consisting of Welsh, Cornish, and Breton
- buck moth — a saturniid moth, Hemileuca maia, having delicate, grayish wings with a white band.
- buckhound — a hound, smaller than a staghound, used for hunting the smaller breeds of deer, esp fallow deer
- buckthorn — any of several thorny small-flowered shrubs of the genus Rhamnus, esp the Eurasian species R. cathartica, whose berries were formerly used as a purgative: family Rhamnaceae
- bucktooth — a projecting upper front tooth
- bush coat — a belted, hip-length, shirtlike jacket, usually with four patch pockets and a notched collar, adapted from the hunting coat customarily worn in the African bush.
- by choice — willingly, of one's free will
- c horizon — the layer of a soil profile immediately below the B horizon and above the bedrock, composed of weathered rock little affected by soil-forming processes
- cabochons — Plural form of cabochon.
- cachepots — Plural form of cachepot.
- cacholong — a type of opal, commonly of a milky colour
- cacoethes — an uncontrollable urge or desire, esp for something harmful; mania
- cacophony — You can describe a loud, unpleasant mixture of sounds as a cacophony.
- cake shop — a shop that sells cakes
- cakeholes — Plural form of cakehole.
- calimocho — a cocktail popular in Spanish-speaking countries, consisting of a mixture of cola and red wine
- canephora — Caryatid that supports a basket on her head.
- canonchet — (Nanuntenoo) died 1676, Narragansett leader: executed by colonists.
- canonship — the position or office of canon; canonry.
- cant hook — a heavy wooden lever with a blunt tip and a hinged hook near the end: used by lumbermen in handling logs
- cape horn — a rocky headland on an island at the extreme S tip of South America, belonging to Chile. It is notorious for gales and heavy seas; until the building of the Panama Canal it lay on the only sea route between the Atlantic and the Pacific
- capocchia — a fool
- car phone — A car phone is a mobile phone, especially one which is designed to be used in a car.
- carbachol — a cholinergic agent, C6H15ClN2O2, used for various ophthalmic purposes, such as the treating of glaucoma
- cardphone — a public telephone operated by the insertion of a phonecard instead of coins
- care home — A care home is a large house or institution where people with particular problems or special needs are looked after.
- carothers — Wallace Hume1896-1937; U.S. chemist
- carthorse — A carthorse is a large, powerful horse that is used to pull carts or farm machinery.
- cartouche — a carved or cast ornamental tablet or panel in the form of a scroll, sometimes having an inscription
- case shot — a quantity of small projectiles enclosed in a single case, as a shrapnel shell, for firing from a gun
- cash crop — A cash crop is a crop that is grown in order to be sold.
- cash flow — The cash flow of a firm or business is the movement of money into and out of it.
- cash-book — a journal in which all cash or cheque receipts and disbursements are recorded
- cashbooks — Plural form of cashbook.
- cashpoint — A cashpoint is the same as a cash dispenser.
- cataphora — the use of a word such as a pronoun that has the same reference as a word used subsequently in the same discourse
- catch dog — a dog used to help round up livestock.
- catch out — To catch someone out means to cause them to make a mistake that reveals that they are lying about something, do not know something, or cannot do something.
- catchpole — (in medieval England) a sheriff's officer who arrested debtors
- catchpoll — (formerly) a petty officer of justice, especially one arresting persons for debt.
- catchword — A catchword is a word or phrase that becomes popular or well-known, for example, because it is associated with a political campaign.
- catchwork — A simple irrigation system, used on sloping land, in which water from a stream or spring is fed in at the top and allowed to trickle down over a number of artificial terraces.
- cathinone — (organic compound) The aromatic amine 2-amino-1-phenyl-1-propanone that is the active ingredient of khat.
- catholics — Plural form of Catholic.
- cathouses — Plural form of cathouse.
- ceanothus — any shrub of the North American rhamnaceous genus Ceanothus: grown for their ornamental, often blue, flower clusters
- cellhouse — a prison building containing separate cells, each usually intended for one or two prisoners.
- cellphone — A cellphone is the same as a cellular phone.
- cenotaphs — Plural form of cenotaph.