9-letter words containing c, o, t, h
- hectorism — the character or actions of a hector
- hemocytes — Plural form of hemocyte.
- hemolytic — the breaking down of red blood cells with liberation of hemoglobin.
- hemotoxic — a toxin, as cobra venom, that causes a hemolytic reaction.
- hepatoxic — Exhibiting hepatoxicity.
- heroicity — suitable to the character of a hero in size or concept; daring; noble: a heroic ambition.
- heterotic — Of or relating to heterosis (hybrid vigor).
- hick town — an insulting way of referring to a small town in the countryside that is not deemed to be very sophisticated
- hierocrat — a person who believes in government by religious leaders
- hircosity — the quality of being like a goat
- hitchcock — Sir Alfred (Joseph) 1899–1980, U.S. film and television director and producer, born in England.
- hoatching — infested; swarming
- holarctic — belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising the Nearctic and Palearctic regions.
- holocaust — a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.
- 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.
- homecourt — (basketball) The home court of a basketball team.
- homecraft — skills used in the home
- homiletic — of or relating to preaching or to homilies.
- homolytic — Of, pertaining to, or produced by homolysis.
- 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.
- hopatcong — a town in N New Jersey.
- hopscotch — a children's game in which a player tosses or kicks a small flat stone, beanbag, or other object into one of several numbered sections of a diagram marked on the pavement or ground and then hops on one foot over the lines from section to section and picks up the stone or object, usually while standing on one foot in an adjacent section.
- horotelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate standard for a given group of plants or animals.
- horsecart — A cart drawn by a horse.
- hot fence — an electric fence surrounding a farm
- hot sauce — any of several highly spiced, pungent condiments, especially one containing some type of pepper or chili.
- hotchkiss — Hazel, Wightman, Hazel Hotchkiss.
- housecats — Plural form of housecat.
- housecoat — a woman's robe or dresslike garment in various lengths, for casual wear about the house.
- hutcheson — Francis. 1694–1746, Scottish philosopher: he published books on ethics and aesthetics, including System of Moral Philosophy (1755)
- hydrocast — a process in which water is collected at various depths in a device with bottles clamped together, providing data on differing water characteristics.
- hydroptic — (formerly) edema.
- hypnotics — Plural form of hypnotic.
- hypocaust — a hollow space or system of channels in the floor or walls of some ancient Roman buildings that provided a central heating system by receiving and distributing the heat from a furnace.
- hypocotyl — the part of a plant embryo directly below the cotyledons, forming a connection with the radicle.
- 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.
- hypotheca — (microbiology, planktology) The lower or posterior half of the theca of a thecate protist such as a diatom or dinoflagellate.
- hypotonic — Physiology. (of tissue) having less than the normal tone.
- hypotrich — any ciliate of the suborder Hypotricha, having cilia chiefly on the ventral surface.
- ichthyoid — Also, ichthyoidal. fishlike.
- isobathic — having the same depth.
- jock itch — a fungal infection of the skin in the groin area, occurring most commonly in males, especially in warm climates, characterized by itchy and often scaly lesions; tinea cruris.
- kurchatov — Igor Vasilievich [ee-guh r-vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /ˈi gər vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1903–60, Soviet nuclear physicist.
- laccolith — a mass of igneous rock formed from magma that did not find its way to the surface but spread laterally into a lenticular body, forcing overlying strata to bulge upward.
- leucothea — a sea goddess, the deified Ino, who gave Odysseus a veil as a float after a storm had destroyed his raft.
- leucothoe — any of various shrubs of the genus Leucothoe, of the heath family, having clusters of white or pinkish flowers.
- lithocyst — a sac, containing otoliths, found in many invertebrates, supposedly connected to hearing and orientation