9-letter words containing c, h
- alcathous — a son of Pelops and Hippodamia who married Euachme and became king of Megara.
- alchemies — a form of chemistry and speculative philosophy practiced in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and concerned principally with discovering methods for transmuting baser metals into gold and with finding a universal solvent and an elixir of life.
- alchemise — to change by or as by alchemy; transmute: to alchemize lead into gold.
- alchemist — An alchemist was a scientist in the Middle Ages who tried to discover how to change ordinary metals into gold.
- alchemize — to alter (an element, metal, etc) by alchemy; transmute
- alchymist — Alternative spelling of alchemist.
- alcoholic — An alcoholic is someone who cannot stop drinking large amounts of alcohol, even when this is making them ill.
- aldehydic — any of a class of organic compounds containing the group −CHO, which yields acids when oxidized and alcohols when reduced.
- alecithal — (of an ovum) having little or no yolk
- aliphatic — (of an organic compound) not aromatic, esp having an open chain structure, such as alkanes, alkenes, and alkynes
- allicholy — a feeling of sadness and despondency
- anabranch — a stream that leaves a river and enters it again further downstream
- anacharis — a genus of water plant native to North America and commonly used in aquariums
- anachrony — a discrepancy between the order of events in a story and the order in which they are presented in the plot: Anachronies are either flashbacks or flashforwards.
- anaphasic — relating to the third stage in cell division
- anaphoric — of or relating to anaphora
- anarchial — characterized by anarchy or political confusion
- anarchies — Plural form of anarchy.
- anarchise — make anarchic
- anarchism — Anarchism is the belief that the laws and power of governments should be replaced by people working together freely.
- anarchist — An anarchist is a person who believes in anarchism.
- anarchize — to make anarchic, to destroy the order of things
- anarthric — relating to anarthria
- anchorage — An anchorage is a place where a boat can anchor safely.
- anchoress — a female anchorite
- anchoring — any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hooklike arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold.
- anchorite — a person who lives in seclusion, esp a religious recluse; hermit
- anchorman — The anchorman on a television or radio programme, especially a news programme, is the person who presents it.
- anchormen — Plural form of anchorman.
- anchoveta — a small anchovy, Cetengraulis mysticetus, of the American Pacific, used as bait by tuna fishermen
- anchovies — Plural form of anchovy.
- anchylose — ankylose
- anhedonic — unable to feel or experience pleasure
- aniakchak — an active volcanic crater in SW Alaska, on the Alaska Peninsula: the largest explosion crater in the world. Height: 1347 m (4420 ft). Diameter: 9 km (6 miles)
- anonychia — congenital absence of the nails.
- anorchism — Anorchia.
- anschluss — a political or economic union, esp the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany (1938)
- antechoir — the part of a church in front of the choir, usually enclosed by screens, tombs, etc
- anteporch — an outer porch.
- anthocarp — a composite false fruit, consisting of the actual fruit and the perianth
- anthozoic — relating to anthozoans
- anthracic — relating to anthrax
- anthropic — of or relating to human beings
- antichain — (mathematics) A subset S of a partially ordered set P is an antichain if, for all x, y in S, x <= y => x = y I.e. no two different elements are related. ("<=" is written in LaTeX as \subseteq).
- antichild — Opposing children.
- antichlor — a substance used to remove chlorine from a material after bleaching or to neutralize the chlorine present
- antimacho — opposed to macho attitudes
- antiochus — name of thirteen kings of the Seleucid dynasty of Syria
- antishock — designed to reduce the force of impact
- apathetic — If you describe someone as apathetic, you are criticizing them because they do not seem to be interested in or enthusiastic about doing anything.