9-letter words containing e, c, h
- broachers — Machinery. an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.
- brochette — a skewer or small spit, used for holding pieces of meat, etc, while roasting or grilling
- bucharest — the capital of Romania, in the southeast. Pop: 1 764 000 (2005 est)
- buckteeth — a projecting tooth, especially an upper front tooth.
- buckwheat — Buckwheat is a type of small black grain used for feeding animals and making flour. Buckwheat also refers to the flour itself.
- butcher's — a look
- butchered — a retail or wholesale dealer in meat.
- butcherer — a person who butchers
- butcherly — of or resembling a butcher
- butchness — the state of being butch
- by chance — Something that happens by chance was not planned by anyone.
- by choice — willingly, of one's free will
- by inches — a unit of length, 1/12 (0.0833) foot, equivalent to 2.54 centimeters.
- cachaemia — a poisoned condition of the blood
- cachaemic — of or relating to cachaemia
- cache hit — (storage) A request to read from memory which can satisfied from the cache without using the main memory. Opposite: cache miss.
- cachectic — general ill health with emaciation, usually occurring in association with cancer or a chronic infectious disease.
- cachectin — Biochemistry, Immunology. a protein that is released by activated macrophages as an immune system defense and, when the defense is overwhelmed, is a cause of cachexia or toxic shock: in humans, identical with tumor necrosis factor.
- cachepots — Plural form of cachepot.
- cacoethes — an uncontrollable urge or desire, esp for something harmful; mania
- cadetship — a student in a national service academy or private military school or on a training ship.
- cailleach — an old woman
- caithness — (until 1975) a county of NE Scotland, now part of Highland
- cake shop — a shop that sells cakes
- cakeholes — Plural form of cakehole.
- caliphate — the office, jurisdiction, or reign of a caliph
- cam wheel — a wheel, with an off-center axis or irregular shape, that functions as a cam.
- camelhair — the hair of the camel or dromedary, used in clothing, rugs, etc
- canephora — Caryatid that supports a basket on her head.
- canonchet — (Nanuntenoo) died 1676, Narragansett leader: executed by colonists.
- cape horn — a rocky headland on an island at the extreme S tip of South America, belonging to Chile. It is notorious for gales and heavy seas; until the building of the Panama Canal it lay on the only sea route between the Atlantic and the Pacific
- car chase — when one car is in quick pursuit of another
- car phone — A car phone is a mobile phone, especially one which is designed to be used in a car.
- car thief — a person who steals automobiles
- caragheen — Alternative form of carrageen.
- cardphone — a public telephone operated by the insertion of a phonecard instead of coins
- care home — A care home is a large house or institution where people with particular problems or special needs are looked after.
- carothers — Wallace Hume1896-1937; U.S. chemist
- carthorse — A carthorse is a large, powerful horse that is used to pull carts or farm machinery.
- cartouche — a carved or cast ornamental tablet or panel in the form of a scroll, sometimes having an inscription
- cartwheel — If you do a cartwheel, you do a fast, circular movement with your body. You fall sideways, put your hands on the ground, swing your legs over, and return to a standing position.
- case shot — a quantity of small projectiles enclosed in a single case, as a shrapnel shell, for firing from a gun
- cash desk — A cash desk is a place in a large shop where you pay for the things you want to buy.
- cash sale — a transaction that specifies that securities must be delivered to the buyer on the day that the purchase is made
- cashed up — having plenty of money
- cashiered — to dismiss (a military officer) from service, especially with disgrace.
- cashierer — a person who rejects or dismisses from office
- catchable — to seize or capture, especially after pursuit: to catch a criminal; to catch a runaway horse.
- catchiest — Superlative form of catchy.
- catchline — a slogan, esp one used in a political or advertising campaign