9-letter words containing c, o, h, i
- hitchcock — Sir Alfred (Joseph) 1899–1980, U.S. film and television director and producer, born in England.
- hoatching — infested; swarming
- holandric — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in males (opposed to hologynic).
- holarctic — belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising the Nearctic and Palearctic regions.
- holocrine — (of a gland) releasing a secretion that is a product of disintegrating cells.
- hologynic — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in females (opposed to holandric).
- holotypic — Relating to a holotype.
- holy city — a city regarded as particularly sacred by the adherents of a religious faith, as Jerusalem by Jews and Christians, Mecca and Medina by Muslims, and Varanasi by Hindus.
- homeslice — Alternative spelling of home slice (Someone from one's home town.).
- homicidal — of or relating to homicide.
- homicides — Plural form of homicide.
- homiletic — of or relating to preaching or to homilies.
- homogamic — (of a plant) in which all the flowers of an inflorescence are either of the same sex or hermaphrodite
- homogenic — having only one alternative form, or one allele, of a gene or genes: The plagues attacked relatively homogenic populations.
- homologic — Homological.
- homolytic — Of, pertaining to, or produced by homolysis.
- homonymic — Phonetics. a word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning, whether spelled the same way or not, as heir and air; a homophone (def 1).
- homotonic — of the same tone
- homotopic — (topology, of two maps) Such that there is an interval of maps joining one to the other.
- homotypic — of or relating to a homotype.
- homunculi — an artificially made dwarf, supposedly produced in a flask by an alchemist.
- honorific — Also, honorifical. doing or conferring honor.
- hoochinoo — a type of distilled liquor made by Alaskan Indians.
- horologic — of or relating to horology.
- horotelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate standard for a given group of plants or animals.
- hotchkiss — Hazel, Wightman, Hazel Hotchkiss.
- hurricano — (obsolete) A waterspout; a hurricane.
- hydrazoic — noting or pertaining to hydrazoic acid; triazoic.
- hydriodic — of or derived from hydriodic acid.
- hydroptic — (formerly) edema.
- hynagogic — Misspelling of hypnagogic.
- hyperopic — Farsighted; of, having, or pertaining to hyperopia.
- hyperoxic — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting hyperoxia.
- hypnotics — Plural form of hypnotic.
- hypobaric — (of an anesthetic) having a specific gravity lower than that of cerebrospinal fluid. Compare hyperbaric (def 1).
- hypocrism — (obsolete) hypocrisy.
- hypocrisy — a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.
- hypocrite — a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, especially one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.
- hypogenic — formed beneath the earth's surface, as granite (opposed to epigene).
- hypomanic — Afflicted with a mild state of mania.
- hyponymic — Of or pertaining to hyponyms.
- hypopneic — of or relating to hypopnoea
- hyporheic — Denoting an area or ecosystem beneath the bed of a river or stream that is saturated with water and that supports invertebrate fauna which play a role in the larger ecosystem.
- hypotonic — Physiology. (of tissue) having less than the normal tone.
- hypotrich — any ciliate of the suborder Hypotricha, having cilia chiefly on the ventral surface.
- hypoxemic — inadequate oxygenation of the blood.
- ice house — a building for storing ice.
- icehouses — Plural form of icehouse.
- ichneumon — Also called African mongoose, Egyptian mongoose. a slender, long-tailed mongoose, Herpestes ichneumon, inhabiting Africa and southern Europe, and believed by the ancient Egyptians to devour crocodile eggs.
- ichnology — the branch of paleontology concerned with the study of fossilized tracks, trails, burrows, borings, or other trace fossils as evidence of the occurrence or behavior of the organisms that produced them.