9-letter words containing c, o, n, h
- encheason — a reason
- enchorial — Indigenous, native.
- endorheic — (of a lake or basin) Internally drained; having no outlet.
- ethnocide — The deliberate and systematic destruction of the culture of an ethnic group.
- ethnolect — A language variety specific to an ethnic group.
- eulachons — Plural form of eulachon.
- eunuchoid — Resembling a eunuch, typically in having reduced or indeterminate sexual characteristics.
- falchions — Plural form of falchion.
- finocchio — Florence fennel.
- foodchain — Alternative spelling of food chain.
- forfochen — exhausted
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- gnathonic — sycophantic; fawning.
- goldfinch — a European finch, Carduelis carduelis, having a crimson face and wings marked with yellow.
- goncharov — Ivan Alexandrovich [ih-vahn al-ig-zan-druh-vich,, -zahn-,, ahy-vuh n;; Russian ee-vahn uh-lyi-ksahn-druh-vyich] /ɪˈvɑn ˌæl ɪgˈzæn drə vɪtʃ,, -ˈzɑn-,, ˈaɪ vən;; Russian iˈvɑn ʌ lyɪˈksɑn drə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1812–91, Russian novelist.
- gonotheca — the part of the perisarc covering a gonangium.
- grouching — Present participle of grouch.
- hacendado — the owner of a hacienda.
- hachinohe — a city in N Honshu, Japan.
- hackathon — a usually competitive event in which people work in groups on software or hardware projects, with the goal of creating a functioning product by the end of the event: At the hackathon our team produced an app that helps you monitor your sleeping habits.
- hacqueton — an upholstered garment for the upper body worn under chain mail or such a garment covered with chain mail
- halcyonic — calm; peaceful; tranquil: halcyon weather.
- 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.
- 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).
- haycation — A vacation stay on a farm, in which guests often help out with daily farm tasks.
- headcanon — (fandom slang) Elements and interpretations of a fictional universe accepted by an individual fan, but not found within or supported by the official canon.
- headcount — The act of counting how many people are present in a group.
- 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.
- heliconia — any of a genus of tropical flowering plants with long flowering panicles
- hemogenic — Of, or relating to the production of blood cells.
- hick town — an insulting way of referring to a small town in the countryside that is not deemed to be very sophisticated
- hircinous — (rare) Of, or pertaining to goats; hircine.
- hoatching — infested; swarming
- holandric — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in males (opposed to hologynic).
- holoclone — (biology) A colony-forming stem cell that has a higher growth potential than a meroclone because it does not contain differentiated cells.
- 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).
- homogenic — having only one alternative form, or one allele, of a gene or genes: The plagues attacked relatively homogenic populations.
- 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
- homunculi — an artificially made dwarf, supposedly produced in a flask by an alchemist.
- hon. sec. — Honorary Secretary
- honeycake — A cake made with honey, especially as a Rosh Hashanah tradition.
- honeycomb — a structure of rows of hexagonal wax cells, formed by bees in their hive for the storage of honey, pollen, and their eggs.
- honorific — Also, honorifical. doing or conferring honor.