9-letter words containing d, a, c, h
- chowkidar — (in India) a watchman or gatekeeper.
- chromatid — either of the two strands into which a chromosome divides during mitosis. They separate to form daughter chromosomes at anaphase
- chromidia — chromatins in cell cytoplasm
- chrysalid — of or relating to a chrysalis
- churidars — long tight-fitting trousers, worn by Indian men and women
- cichlidae — the family of cichlid fish
- clackdish — a dish carried by a beggar
- clarthead — a slow-witted or stupid person
- closehead — the entrance to a tenement close
- clothyard — (historical) An old unit of measure for cloth, 36 or 37 inches.
- club hand — a deformity of the hand, analogous to club foot
- clubhands — Plural form of clubhand.
- clunkhead — a stupid or foolish person.
- co durham — County Durham
- coach dog — Dalmatian
- coachload — A coachload of people is a group of people who are travelling somewhere together in a coach.
- coachwood — an Australian tree, Ceratopetalum apetalum, yielding light aromatic wood used for furniture, turnery, etc
- 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.
- cohabited — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- cohobated — to distill again from the same or a similar substance, as by pouring a distilled liquid back upon the matter remaining in the vessel, or upon another mass of similar matter.
- cokeheads — Plural form of cokehead.
- cold cash — money paid in full at the time of a business transaction
- cot death — Cot death is the sudden death of a baby while it is asleep, although the baby had not previously been ill.
- crackhead — a person addicted to the drug crack
- crash pad — a place to live or sleep temporarily
- crashland — Alternative form of crash-land.
- crisphead — a variety of lettuce with a dense cabbage-like head and mild crunchy leaves
- crosshead — a subsection or paragraph heading printed within the body of the text
- curlyhead — a person whose hair is curly.
- dabchicks — Plural form of dabchick.
- dachshund — A dachshund is a small dog that has very short legs, a long body, and long ears.
- dancehall — a style of dance-oriented reggae, originating in the late 1980s
- day coach — an ordinary railroad passenger car, as distinguished from a sleeping car, parlor car, or other deluxe accommodations.
- death cap — a poisonous woodland saprotrophic basidiomycetous fungus, Amanita phalloides, differing from the edible mushroom (Agaricus) only in its white gills (pinkish-brown in Agaricus) and the presence of a volva
- death cup — a poisonous mushroom of the genus Amanita.
- debauched — If you describe someone as debauched, you mean they behave in a way that you think is socially unacceptable, for example because they drink a lot of alcohol or have sex with a lot of people.
- debauchee — a man who leads a life of reckless drinking, promiscuity, and self-indulgence
- debaucher — to corrupt by sensuality, intemperance, etc.; seduce.
- debauches — to corrupt by sensuality, intemperance, etc.; seduce.
- dec alpha — (processor) A RISC microprocessor from DEC. In November 1995, the Alpha was purportedly the fastest non-research chip used in commonly available workstations. It is superpipelined and superscalar. In February 1996 it was clocked at 200 MHz and in March 1998 at 666 MHz.
- decachord — a ten-stringed musical instrument
- decahedra — plural form of singular decahedron: solid figure with ten plane faces
- decastich — a poem that consists of ten lines
- decathect — to withdraw one's feelings of attachment from (a person, idea, or object), as in anticipation of a future loss: He decathected from her in order to cope with her impending death.
- decathlon — The decathlon is a competition in which athletes compete in 10 different sporting events.
- déchéance — the act of forfeiting something
- deck hand — a seaman assigned various duties, such as mooring and cargo handling, on the deck of a ship
- deckchair — A deckchair is a simple chair with a folding frame, and a piece of canvas as the seat and back. Deckchairs are usually used on the beach, on a ship, or in the garden.
- declareth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'declare'.
- delaroche — (Hippolyte) Paul. 1797–1859, French painter of portraits and sentimental historical scenes, such as The Children of Edward IV in the Tower (1830)