9-letter words containing c, r, o, s, h
- coauthors — Plural form of coauthor.
- 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.
- coheiress — a female coheir
- copperish — resembling copper
- corfhouse — a shed used for curing salmon and storing nets
- cornbrash — a type of limestone which produces good soil for growing corn
- cornhouse — a corncrib.
- cornhusks — Plural form of cornhusk.
- corniches — Plural form of corniche.
- coronachs — Plural form of coronach.
- coshering — Present participle of cosher.
- cosphered — sharing the same sphere
- cothurnus — the buskin worn in ancient Greek tragedy
- courtship — Courtship is the activity of courting or the time during which a man and a woman are courting.
- cow horse — cow pony.
- cow shark — any large primitive shark, esp Hexanchus griseum, of the family Hexanchidae of warm and temperate waters
- crapshoot — If you describe something as a crapshoot, you mean that what happens depends entirely on luck or chance.
- crash out — If someone crashes out somewhere, they fall asleep where they are because they are very tired or drunk.
- crash-hot — extremely impressive
- cristophe — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), ("Henri I"I) 1767–1820, Haitian revolutionary general, born in Grenada: king 1811–20.
- cromlechs — Plural form of cromlech.
- crossed-h — a constant used in quantum mechanics, equal to the Planck constant divided by 2π. It has a value of 1.054571596±0.000000078 × 10 −34 joule seconds
- crossfish — a starfish
- crosshair — either of the two fine mutually perpendicular lines or wires that cross in the focal plane of a theodolite, gunsight, or other optical instrument and are used to define the line of sight
- crosshead — a subsection or paragraph heading printed within the body of the text
- crotchets — Plural form of crotchet.
- crumhorns — Plural form of crumhorn.
- cut short — to stop abruptly before the end
- cybershop — Purchase or shop for goods and services on a website.
- dichroism — a property of a uniaxial crystal, such as tourmaline, of showing a perceptible difference in colour when viewed along two different axes in transmitted white light
- disanchor — to raise the anchor of (a ship)
- dysphoric — a state of dissatisfaction, anxiety, restlessness, or fidgeting.
- echovirus — any of numerous retroviruses of the picornavirus group, some harmless and others associated with various human disorders, as aseptic meningitis.
- ecosphere — Also called physiological atmosphere. the part of the atmosphere in which it is possible to breathe normally without aid: the portion of the troposphere from sea level to an altitude of about 13,000 feet (4000 meters).
- escheator — a person appointed to deal with escheats
- fish crow — a crow, Corvus ossifragus, of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of North America, that feeds on fish, mollusks, etc.
- forasmuch — Inasmuch, seeing (that).
- forehocks — Plural form of forehock.
- foreshock — a relatively small earthquake that precedes a greater one by a few days or weeks and originates at or near the focus of the larger earthquake.
- ghost car — an unmarked police car
- grieshoch — a bed of embers, especially of a peat or moss fire.
- harmonics — Music. overtone (def 1).
- hectorism — the character or actions of a hector
- hickories — Plural form of hickory.
- hippocras — an old medicinal cordial made of wine mixed with spices.
- hircinous — (rare) Of, or pertaining to goats; hircine.
- hircosity — the quality of being like a goat
- hog score — a line at each end of the rink, parallel to the foot score and usually 7 yards (6.4 meters) in advance of the tee.
- horoscope — a diagram of the heavens, showing the relative position of planets and the signs of the zodiac, for use in calculating births, foretelling events in a person's life, etc.