9-letter words containing c, r, o, t, h
- chorister — A chorister is a singer in a church choir.
- chorizont — a person who challenges the authorship of a work
- chortling — to chuckle gleefully.
- christoff — Boris. 1919–93, Bulgarian bass-baritone, noted esp for his performance in the title role of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov
- chromates — Plural form of chromate.
- chromatic — In music, chromatic means related to the scale that consists only of semitones.
- chromatid — either of the two strands into which a chromosome divides during mitosis. They separate to form daughter chromosomes at anaphase
- chromatin — the part of the nucleus that consists of DNA and proteins, forms the chromosomes, and stains with basic dyes
- chromato- — indicating colour or coloured
- churn out — To churn out something means to produce large quantities of it very quickly.
- cirrhotic — a disease of the liver characterized by increase of connective tissue and alteration in gross and microscopic makeup.
- cithaeron — a mountain range in SE Greece: sacred to Dionysus, in Greek mythology. to 4623 feet (1409 meters).
- clothiers — Plural form of clothier.
- clothyard — (historical) An old unit of measure for cloth, 36 or 37 inches.
- co-author — The co-authors of a book, play, or report are the people who have written it together.
- coauthors — Plural form of coauthor.
- cohabiter — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- coheritor — a coheir
- coinherit — To inherit together with other or others; to be one of the inheritors.
- colcothar — a finely powdered form of ferric oxide produced by heating ferric sulphate and used as a pigment and as jewellers' rouge
- coopworth — a New Zealand and Australian breed of sheep derived from the Romney Marsh
- coprolith — a hard stony mass of dried faeces in the intestine that is caused by chronic constipation
- copyright — If someone has copyright on a piece of writing or music, it is illegal to reproduce or perform it without their permission.
- cornforth — Sir John Warcup. 1917–2014, Australian chemist, who shared the 1975 Nobel prize for chemistry with Vladimir Prelog for their work on stereochemistry
- cothamore — a frieze fabric, often used in the manufacture of overcoats.
- cothurnal — relating to the cothurnus or to tragedy
- 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.
- 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.
- crocheted — made with a crochet hook
- crocheter — needlework done with a needle having a small hook at one end for drawing the thread or yarn through intertwined loops.
- crotchets — Plural form of crotchet.
- crotchety — A crotchety person is bad-tempered and easily irritated.
- cryolathe — an instrument for reshaping the cornea to correct severe nearsightedness or farsightedness: the cornea is removed from the eye, rapidly frozen, reshaped, and reinserted.
- cryophyte — an organism, esp an alga or moss, that grows on snow or ice
- cut short — to stop abruptly before the end
- cutthroat — a person who cuts throats; murderer
- cybergoth — (uncountable) A subculture combining elements of goth and rave culture, typically involving energetic electronic music and brightly coloured, futuristic clothing.
- dichroite — cordierite.
- dichromat — a person whose vision can only distinguish two colours
- ditrochee — a form of poetic meter in which two trochees constitute one metrical unit.
- dordrecht — a city in SW Netherlands, on the Waal River.
- dowitcher — any of several long-billed, snipelike shore birds of North America and Asia, especially Limnodromus griseus.
- dropcloth — A large piece of plastic or canvas put over something to protect it from construction debris or paint.
- eachother — (nonstandard) misspelling of each other Typically used in the context of
- ectomorph — a person of the ectomorphic type.
- ectotherm — a cold-blooded animal.