9-letter words containing c, l, a, h, n
- chantilly — a town in N France, near the Forest of Chantilly formerly famous for lace and porcelain. Pop: 10 902 (1999)
- chantlike — Resembling a chant.
- chaplains — Plural form of chaplain.
- charlatan — You describe someone as a charlatan when they pretend to have skills or knowledge that they do not really possess.
- charleton — a male given name.
- chatelain — the keeper or governor of a castle
- chatlines — Plural form of chatline.
- chelating — Having the ability to undergo chelation.
- chelation — the process by which a chelate is formed
- chelonian — any reptile of the order Chelonia, including the tortoises and turtles, in which most of the body is enclosed in a protective bony capsule
- chennault — Claire Lee [klair] /klɛər/ (Show IPA), 1890–1958, U.S. Air Force general.
- chilblain — Chilblains are painful red swellings which people sometimes get on their fingers or toes in cold weather.
- chiliagon — a thousand-sided polygon
- chin ball — a device fastened under the chin of a bull to mark cows it has mounted
- china oil — a dark, molasseslike, aromatic, water-insoluble liquid having a warm, bitter taste, obtained from the leguminous tree, Myroxylon pereirae, of Central America: used in medicine, perfumery, and in the manufacture of chocolate.
- chloracne — a disfiguring skin disease that results from contact with or ingestion or inhalation of certain chlorinated aromatic hydrocarbons
- chloranil — a yellow, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 6 Cl 4 O 2 , used chiefly as a fungicide and as an intermediate in the manufacture of dyes.
- chlordane — a white insoluble toxic solid existing in several isomeric forms and usually used, as an insecticide, in the form of a brown impure liquid. Formula: C10H6Cl8
- chronical — relating to or controlled by time
- cleantech — (industry) Technologies that support increased productivity or profitability while also reducing resource consumption or pollution.
- cleanthes — ?300–?232 bc, Greek philosopher: succeeded Zeno as head of the Stoic school
- clianthus — any Australian or New Zealand plant of the leguminous genus Clianthus, with ornamental clusters of slender scarlet flowers
- cliffhang — (of a serial or film) to end on a note of suspense
- club hand — a deformity of the hand, analogous to club foot
- clubhands — Plural form of clubhand.
- clunkhead — a stupid or foolish person.
- coachline — a decorative line on the bodywork of a motor vehicle
- cochineal — Cochineal is a red substance that is used for colouring food.
- cothurnal — relating to the cothurnus or to tragedy
- crashland — Alternative form of crash-land.
- cuchulain — a legendary hero of Ulster
- dancehall — a style of dance-oriented reggae, originating in the late 1980s
- decathlon — The decathlon is a competition in which athletes compete in 10 different sporting events.
- diachylon — a type of adhesive plaster, formerly made of various plant juices, but later containing lead oxide and glycerin
- encephala — Plural form of encephalon.
- enchilada — A rolled tortilla with a filling typically of meat and served with a chili sauce.
- enchorial — Indigenous, native.
- eulachons — Plural form of eulachon.
- falchions — Plural form of falchion.
- halcyonic — calm; peaceful; tranquil: halcyon weather.
- half cent — a bronze coin of the U.S., equal to one-half cent, issued at various periods between 1793 and 1857.
- half-inch — a half of an inch, equal to 1/24 of a foot (1.27 centimeters).
- halfpence — Plural form of halfpenny.
- halocline — a well-defined vertical salinity gradient in ocean or other saline water.
- halomancy — Divination by use of salt. This is the origin for the superstition of spilled salt.
- handclaps — Plural form of handclap.
- handclasp — a gripping of hands by two or more people, as in greeting, parting, making a commitment, or expressing affection.
- 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.
- hatchling — a young bird, reptile, or fish recently emerged from an egg.
- heliconia — any of a genus of tropical flowering plants with long flowering panicles