9-letter words containing c, i, n, h
- frenching — of, relating to, or characteristic of France, its inhabitants, or their language, culture, etc.: French cooking.
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- glitching — Present participle of glitch.
- gnathonic — sycophantic; fawning.
- goldfinch — a European finch, Carduelis carduelis, having a crimson face and wings marked with yellow.
- greenwich — a borough in SE London, England: located on the prime meridian from which geographic longitude is measured; formerly the site of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
- grouching — Present participle of grouch.
- gynarchic — relating to gynarchy or rule by women
- habitance — (obsolete) dwelling; abode; residence.
- habitancy — the act or fact of inhabiting; inhabitancy.
- hachinohe — a city in N Honshu, Japan.
- hachuring — Present participle of hachure.
- haciendas — Plural form of hacienda.
- halcyonic — calm; peaceful; tranquil: halcyon weather.
- half-inch — a half of an inch, equal to 1/24 of a foot (1.27 centimeters).
- halocline — a well-defined vertical salinity gradient in ocean or other saline water.
- hand-pick — to pick by hand.
- handicaps — Plural form of handicap.
- handpiece — The part of a dental drill, surgical instrument, etc. that is held in the hand.
- hanseatic — of or relating to the Hanseatic League or to any of the towns belonging to it.
- haplontic — (chiefly of an alga or other lower plant) having a life cycle in which the main form is haploid, with a diploid zygote being formed only briefly.
- harmonica — Also called mouth organ. a musical wind instrument consisting of a small rectangular case containing a set of metal reeds connected to a row of holes, over which the player places the mouth and exhales and inhales to produce the tones.
- harmonics — Music. overtone (def 1).
- hatchings — Plural form of hatching.
- hatchling — a young bird, reptile, or fish recently emerged from an egg.
- haycation — A vacation stay on a farm, in which guests often help out with daily farm tasks.
- hecogenin — a steroid occurring naturally in plants and used in drugs including cortisone
- hectoring — Classical Mythology. the eldest son of Priam and husband of Andromache: the greatest Trojan hero in the Trojan War, killed by Achilles.
- hegemonic — having hegemony, or dominance: the ruling party's hegemonic control of all facets of society.
- helicline — a curved ramp.
- heliconia — any of a genus of tropical flowering plants with long flowering panicles
- hematinic — a medicine, as a compound of iron, that tends to increase the amount of hematin or hemoglobin in the blood.
- hemogenic — Of, or relating to the production of blood cells.
- hendricks — a male given name, form of Henry.
- henrician — of or having to do with the reign, policies, etc. of any king named Henry, esp. Henry VIII of England
- herceptin — a monoclonal antibody that inhibits the protein that can fuel tumour growth, used in the treatment of breast cancer
- hercynian — denoting a period of mountain building in Europe in the late Palaeozoic
- hercynite — a black oxide mineral, FeAl 2 O 4 , of the spinel group.
- heritance — inheritance.
- hesitance — hesitation; indecision or disinclination.
- hesitancy — hesitation; indecision or disinclination.
- hiccuping — a quick, involuntary inhalation that follows a spasm of the diaphragm and is suddenly checked by closure of the glottis, producing a short, relatively sharp sound.
- hick town — an insulting way of referring to a small town in the countryside that is not deemed to be very sophisticated
- hijacking — Present participle of hijack.
- hindrance — an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
- hircinous — (rare) Of, or pertaining to goats; hircine.
- hitchings — George Herbert, 1905–98, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize 1988.
- hoatching — infested; swarming
- holandric — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in males (opposed to hologynic).
- holocrine — (of a gland) releasing a secretion that is a product of disintegrating cells.