9-letter words containing e, c, h, o, a
- moschatel — a small plant, Adoxa moschatellina, having greenish or yellowish flowers with a musky odor.
- moustache — the hair growing on the upper lip.
- nahcolite — a carbonate mineral, naturally occurring sodium bicarbonate, NaHCO 3 .
- octahedra — Plural form of octahedron.
- octateuch — the first eight books of the Old Testament, consisting of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, and Ruth, or a volume containing them.
- oenanthic — having a smell that is similar to wine
- offenbach — Jacques [zhahk] /ʒɑk/ (Show IPA), 1819–80, French composer.
- ogee arch — an arch, each haunch of which is an ogee with the concave side uppermost.
- omphacite — a pale-green variety of pyroxene similar to olivine, found in eclogite.
- orcharder — One who owns or operates an orchard.
- orchestra — a group of performers on various musical instruments, including especially stringed instruments of the viol class, clarinets and flutes, cornets and trombones, drums, and cymbals, for playing music, as symphonies, operas, popular music, or other compositions.
- outcharge — to charge more than
- outpreach — to outdo in preaching or overcome by preaching
- outsearch — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
- overcatch — to overtake
- overcheap — too cheap
- overcoach — to coach too much
- overmatch — to be more than a match for; surpass; defeat: an assignment that clearly overmatched his abilities; an able task force that overmatched the enemy fleet.
- overreach — to reach or extend over or beyond: The shelf overreached the nook and had to be planed down.
- overteach — to teach too much
- overwatch — to watch over.
- packhorse — a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.
- panchetto — a Renaissance chair having three splayed legs and a shaped back joined into a solid wooden seat.
- parocheth — a richly embroidered curtain that hangs in front of the Holy Ark in a synagogue.
- patchogue — a town on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- pathocure — Psychiatry. cessation of a neurosis with the appearance of an organic disease.
- peachblow — a delicate purplish pink.
- phacolite — a colorless variety of chabazite.
- phagocyte — any cell, as a macrophage, that ingests and destroys foreign particles, bacteria, and cell debris.
- phoenicia — an ancient kingdom on the Mediterranean, in the region of modern Syria, Lebanon, and Israel.
- phonecard — calling card (def 3).
- poachable — able to be poached
- podotheca — the horny integument covering unfeathered portions of the legs and toes of most birds.
- polemarch — (in ancient Greece) a civilian official, originally a supreme general
- porchetta — Italian boneless stuffed pork cut from a whole roast pig
- pothecary — apothecary.
- proseucha — a place of prayer, esp for Jewish worship
- quebracho — any of several tropical American trees of the genus Schinopsis, having very hard wood, especially S. lorentzii, the wood and bark of which are important in tanning and dyeing.
- racehorse — a horse bred or kept for racing, especially in flat races or steeplechases.
- reach rod — a rod for operating a remote piece of machinery, as a valve.
- rheobasic — of or relating to rheobase
- rhotacize — to change (a sound) to an (r); subject to rhotacism.
- rotachute — a device serving the same purpose as a parachute, in which the canopy is replaced by freely revolving rotor blades, used for the delivery of stores or recovery of missiles
- sachemdom — the office of a sachem
- schiavone — the Italian name for a 17th century basket-hilted sword with a double edge
- sexaholic — a person who is addicted to sex
- sharecrop — to cultivate (farmland) as a sharecropper
- shockwave — (tool) A program from Macromedia for viewing files created with Macromedia Director. Shockwave is freely available as a plug-in for the Netscape Navigator web browser. "Shocked" pages that incorporate documents created in Director can usually only be enjoyed by users with an ISDN or faster connection.
- shoe rack — shelving unit for storing footwear
- shoeblack — bootblack.