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9-letter words containing c, o, e, h, r

  • chernenko — Konstantin (Ustinovich) (kənstanˈtin). 1911–85, Soviet statesman; general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party (1984–85)
  • chernigov — a city in N central Ukraine, on the River Desna: tyres, pianos, consumer goods. Pop: 308 000 (2005 est)
  • chernobyl — a town in N Ukraine; site of a nuclear power station accident in 1986
  • chernozem — a black soil, rich in humus and carbonates, in cool or temperate semiarid regions, as the grasslands of Russia
  • cherokees — a member of an important tribe of North American Indians whose first known center was in the southern Alleghenies and who presently live in North Carolina and Oklahoma.
  • chevronel — a narrow chevron, one-half the usual breadth or less.
  • chew over — If you chew something over, you keep thinking about it.
  • chiropter — an animal of the order Chiroptera; a bat
  • chloracne — a disfiguring skin disease that results from contact with or ingestion or inhalation of certain chlorinated aromatic hydrocarbons
  • chlorates — Plural form of chlorate.
  • 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
  • chlorella — any microscopic unicellular green alga of the genus Chlorella: some species are used in the preparation of human food
  • chlorides — Plural form of chloride.
  • chlorites — Plural form of chlorite.
  • choephori — a tragedy (458 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
  • chokebore — a shotgun bore that becomes narrower towards the muzzle so that the shot is not scattered
  • choleraic — relating to, like, or developing from cholera
  • cholerine — (pathology) Minor diarrhea that happens during outbreaks of cholera.
  • chondrite — a stony meteorite consisting mainly of silicate minerals in the form of chondrules
  • chondrule — one of the small spherical masses of mainly silicate minerals present in chondrites
  • choppered — Simple past tense and past participle of chopper.
  • chordates — belonging or pertaining to the phylum Chordata, comprising the true vertebrates and those animals having a notochord, as the lancelets and tunicates.
  • chordless — Lacking chords.
  • chordwise — in the direction of an aerofoil chord
  • choreatic — any of several diseases of the nervous system characterized by jerky, involuntary movements, chiefly of the face and extremities.
  • choreutic — of or belonging to a chorus.
  • chorister — A chorister is a singer in a church choir.
  • chorussed — Simple past tense and past participle of chorus.
  • chromagen — (biochemistry) Any compound, such as heme, that forms a biological pigment when attached to a protein.
  • chromakey — (in colour television) a special effect in which a coloured background can be eliminated and a different background substituted
  • chromates — Plural form of chromate.
  • chromogen — a compound that forms coloured compounds on oxidation
  • chronaxie — the minimum time required for excitation of a nerve or muscle when the stimulus is double the minimum (threshold) necessary to elicit a basic response
  • chronicle — To chronicle a series of events means to write about them or show them in broadcasts in the order in which they happened.
  • cithaeron — a mountain range in SE Greece: sacred to Dionysus, in Greek mythology. to 4623 feet (1409 meters).
  • clothiers — Plural form of clothier.
  • cockhorse — rocking horse
  • codeshare — (aviation) Agreement whereby an airline buys space on another airline and markets the extra space as its own. Often used to increase a route network without the costs of running a full service.
  • cohabiter — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
  • coheiress — a female coheir
  • coherence — Coherence is a state or situation in which all the parts or ideas fit together well so that they form a united whole.
  • coherency — the act or state of cohering; cohesion.
  • coheritor — a coheir
  • coinherit — To inherit together with other or others; to be one of the inheritors.
  • copperish — resembling copper
  • corfhouse — a shed used for curing salmon and storing nets
  • cornhouse — a corncrib.
  • corniches — Plural form of corniche.
  • coryphene — either of two large marine percoid fishes, Coryphaena hippurus or C. equisetis, that resemble the cetacean dolphins and have an iridescent coloration
  • coshering — Present participle of cosher.
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