9-letter words containing c, l, h, e
- euchloric — relating to euchlorine
- euchology — a euchologion
- eulachons — Plural form of eulachon.
- facecloth — washcloth.
- flashcube — a cube, for attaching to a camera, that contains a flashbulb in each vertical side and rotates automatically for taking four flash pictures in succession.
- flechette — Military. a small, dartlike metal projectile used as shrapnel in antipersonnel bombs and shells.
- flenching — Present participle of flench.
- fletchers — Plural form of fletcher.
- fletching — the feathers on an arrow, which stabilize it during flight.
- flex-cash — flexdollars.
- forecloth — a cloth hung over the front of something, esp an altar
- gaeltacht — any of the regions in Ireland in which Irish Gaelic is the vernacular speech. The form Gaeltacht is sometimes also used to mean the region of Scotland in which Scottish Gaelic is spoken
- gelechiid — any of numerous small moths of the family Gelechiidae, including many crop pests, as the Angoumois grain moth and potato tuberworm.
- gemutlich — comfortable and pleasant; cozy.
- geophilic — soil-loving
- guilloche — an ornamental pattern or border, as in architecture, consisting of paired ribbons or lines flowing in interlaced curves around a series of circular voids.
- haemocoel — (biology) A cavity, between the organs of arthropods and mollusks, through which the blood etc. circulates.
- hair cell — an epithelial cell having hairlike processes, as that of the organ of Corti.
- half cent — a bronze coin of the U.S., equal to one-half cent, issued at various periods between 1793 and 1857.
- half deck — (in a sailing ship) the portion of the deck below the upper or spar deck and aft of the mainmast.
- half-acre — a common measure of area: in the U.S. and U.K., 1 acre equals 4,840 square yards (4,047 square meters) or 0.405 hectare; 640 acres equals one square mile.
- half-cell — a single electrode, generally a metal, immersed in a container filled with an electrolyte, and having a specific electrical potential for a given combination of electrode and electrolyte.
- half-deck — a deck on an old ship of war that is situated below the upper deck and extends aft from the mainmast
- half-pace — a small stage on which something stands
- half-peck — a unit of dry measure equal to 4 quarts (4.4 liters).
- halfpence — Plural form of halfpenny.
- halieutic — Of or pertaining to fishing.
- halocline — a well-defined vertical salinity gradient in ocean or other saline water.
- hatchable — (of an egg) able, or liable, to hatch.
- hatcheled — Simple past tense and past participle of hatchel.
- head cold — a form of the common cold characterized especially by nasal congestion and sneezing.
- head lice — lice which lay eggs in human hair
- headcloth — any cloth for covering the head, as a turban or wimple.
- headlocks — Plural form of headlock.
- heathclad — Clad or crowned with heath.
- heelpiece — Shoemaking. a piece of leather, wood, or other material serving as the heel of a shoe, boot, or the like. such a piece used in repairing a heel.
- hela cell — a vigorous strain of laboratory-cultured cells descended from a human cervical cancer, used widely in research.
- helically — pertaining to or having the form of a helix; spiral.
- helicline — a curved ramp.
- helicoids — Plural form of helicoid.
- heliconia — any of a genus of tropical flowering plants with long flowering panicles
- helictite — A speleothem found in limestone caves that changes its axis from the vertical at one or more stages during its growth.
- helidecks — Plural form of helideck.
- heliozoic — denoting or relating to a heliozoan
- helvetica — (text) One of the most widely used sans-serif typefaces, developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger with Eduard Hoffmann. Originally called Neue Haas Grotesk, it was renamed Helvetica for the international market. Helvetica is very similar to the common Arial typeface. The name is Latin for Swiss.
- hemicycle — a semicircle.
- hemocoels — Plural form of hemocoel.
- hemolytic — the breaking down of red blood cells with liberation of hemoglobin.
- heraclius — a.d. 575?–641, Byzantine emperor 610–641.
- herculean — requiring the great strength of a Hercules; very hard to perform: Digging the tunnel was a herculean task.