9-letter words containing c, h, t, o
- colcothar — a finely powdered form of ferric oxide produced by heating ferric sulphate and used as a pigment and as jewellers' rouge
- cold shut — A cold shut is a fault in the surface of a piece of metal caused by two streams of molten metal not joining properly when the piece is being cast.
- colocynth — a cucurbitaceous climbing plant, Citrullus colocynthis, of the Mediterranean region and Asia, having bitter-tasting fruit
- coltishly — In a coltish manner.
- conchitis — inflammation of the outer ear
- connaught — Connacht
- consumeth — Archaic third-person singular form of consume.
- coopworth — a New Zealand and Australian breed of sheep derived from the Romney Marsh
- coprolith — a hard stony mass of dried faeces in the intestine that is caused by chronic constipation
- copyfight — the conflict between copyright holders and other individuals over the use, distribution, and replication of copyright materials
- copyright — If someone has copyright on a piece of writing or music, it is illegal to reproduce or perform it without their permission.
- cornforth — Sir John Warcup. 1917–2014, Australian chemist, who shared the 1975 Nobel prize for chemistry with Vladimir Prelog for their work on stereochemistry
- coshocton — a city in E central Ohio.
- cost-push — of or relating to cost-push inflation: a proponent of the cost-push theory.
- cot death — Cot death is the sudden death of a baby while it is asleep, although the baby had not previously been ill.
- cothamore — a frieze fabric, often used in the manufacture of overcoats.
- cothurnal — relating to the cothurnus or to tragedy
- cothurnus — the buskin worn in ancient Greek tragedy
- couchette — A couchette is a bed on a train or a boat which is folded against the wall or used as a seat during the day.
- countship — the rank or position of a count.
- courtship — Courtship is the activity of courting or the time during which a man and a woman are courting.
- cow vetch — a climbing plant, Vicia cracca, of the legume family, of Eurasia and North America, having elongated clusters of violet-purple flowers.
- crapshoot — If you describe something as a crapshoot, you mean that what happens depends entirely on luck or chance.
- crash out — If someone crashes out somewhere, they fall asleep where they are because they are very tired or drunk.
- crash-hot — extremely impressive
- cristophe — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), ("Henri I"I) 1767–1820, Haitian revolutionary general, born in Grenada: king 1811–20.
- crocheted — made with a crochet hook
- crocheter — needlework done with a needle having a small hook at one end for drawing the thread or yarn through intertwined loops.
- crotchets — Plural form of crotchet.
- crotchety — A crotchety person is bad-tempered and easily irritated.
- cryolathe — an instrument for reshaping the cornea to correct severe nearsightedness or farsightedness: the cornea is removed from the eye, rapidly frozen, reshaped, and reinserted.
- cryophyte — an organism, esp an alga or moss, that grows on snow or ice
- ctesiphon — an ancient city on the River Tigris about 100 km (60 miles) above Babylon. First mentioned in 221 bc, it was destroyed in the 7th and 8th centuries ad
- cushionet — a small cushion
- cut short — to stop abruptly before the end
- cutthroat — a person who cuts throats; murderer
- cybergoth — (uncountable) A subculture combining elements of goth and rave culture, typically involving energetic electronic music and brightly coloured, futuristic clothing.
- cyclolith — a stone circle
- cystolith — a knoblike deposit of calcium carbonate in the epidermal cells of such plants as the stinging nettle
- cytopathy — a disease or disorder of a cell
- cytophagy — the ingestion of cells by other cells.
- decathlon — The decathlon is a competition in which athletes compete in 10 different sporting events.
- dichoptic — having the eyes distinctly separate
- dichotomy — If there is a dichotomy between two things, there is a very great difference or opposition between them.
- dichroite — cordierite.
- dichromat — a person whose vision can only distinguish two colours
- dishcloth — a cloth for use in washing dishes; dishrag.
- dishclout — a cloth for use in washing dishes; dishrag.
- dithionic — of or derived from dithionic acid.
- ditrochee — a form of poetic meter in which two trochees constitute one metrical unit.