9-letter words containing e, c, t, h
- choreatic — any of several diseases of the nervous system characterized by jerky, involuntary movements, chiefly of the face and extremities.
- choreutic — of or belonging to a chorus.
- chorister — A chorister is a singer in a church choir.
- christens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of christen.
- christine — a feminine name: dim. Chris, Chrissie, Tina; var. Christina, Christy
- chromates — Plural form of chromate.
- chubbiest — Superlative form of chubby.
- chuntered — Simple past tense and past participle of chunter.
- cithaeron — a mountain range in SE Greece: sacred to Dionysus, in Greek mythology. to 4623 feet (1409 meters).
- clarthead — a slow-witted or stupid person
- clathrate — resembling a net or lattice
- cleantech — (industry) Technologies that support increased productivity or profitability while also reducing resource consumption or pollution.
- cleanthes — ?300–?232 bc, Greek philosopher: succeeded Zeno as head of the Stoic school
- cleithral — (of Greek temples) covered with a roof
- clipsheet — a sheet of paper with text printed on one side only
- clothiers — Plural form of clothier.
- clutchest — to seize with or as with the hands or claws; snatch: The bird swooped down and clutched its prey with its claws.
- cochleate — shaped like a snail's shell; spirally twisted
- cognitech — (company) A French software company specialising in artificial intelligence.
- cohabited — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- cohabitee — A person who cohabits with another.
- cohabiter — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- coheritor — a coheir
- 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.
- cohobates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cohobate.
- cohostess — a woman who cohosts an event
- coinherit — To inherit together with other or others; to be one of the inheritors.
- consumeth — Archaic third-person singular form of consume.
- cot death — Cot death is the sudden death of a baby while it is asleep, although the baby had not previously been ill.
- cothamore — a frieze fabric, often used in the manufacture of overcoats.
- couchette — A couchette is a bed on a train or a boat which is folded against the wall or used as a seat during the day.
- cow vetch — a climbing plant, Vicia cracca, of the legume family, of Eurasia and North America, having elongated clusters of violet-purple flowers.
- 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
- ctesiphon — an ancient city on the River Tigris about 100 km (60 miles) above Babylon. First mentioned in 221 bc, it was destroyed in the 7th and 8th centuries ad
- cue sheet — a detailed listing of cues for use by a stage manager or the technicians during the production of a play or broadcast.
- cushionet — a small cushion
- cutcherry — (formerly, in India) government offices and law courts collectively
- cyberchat — Chat that takes place on the Internet, as in a chatroom or via instant messages.
- cybergoth — (uncountable) A subculture combining elements of goth and rave culture, typically involving energetic electronic music and brightly coloured, futuristic clothing.
- cyclepath — a special path for the exclusive use of cyclists
- cytherean — of or relating to Cytherea.
- 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.
- decastich — a poem that consists of ten lines