9-letter words containing e, m, o
- chermoula — a marinade used in N African cookery
- chernozem — a black soil, rich in humus and carbonates, in cool or temperate semiarid regions, as the grasslands of Russia
- chi meson — a meson with a mass 6687 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 1.5 X 10 -20 seconds.
- chokedamp — blackdamp
- chokeslam — A wrestling move in which someone is picked up by their neck and is driven into the mat.
- cholaemia — a toxic medical condition indicated by the presence of bile in the blood
- cholaemic — of or relating to cholaemia
- chow mein — Chow mein is a Chinese-style dish that consists of fried noodles, cooked meat, and vegetables.
- chromagen — (biochemistry) Any compound, such as heme, that forms a biological pigment when attached to a protein.
- chromakey — (in colour television) a special effect in which a coloured background can be eliminated and a different background substituted
- chromates — Plural form of chromate.
- chromogen — a compound that forms coloured compounds on oxidation
- clamoured — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- clamourer — One who clamours.
- claremont — a town in SW California.
- claremore — a town in NE Oklahoma.
- claymores — Plural form of claymore.
- cleanroom — A room or environment that is controlled in such a way as to minimize airborne particulate matter, typically for the purpose of fabricating sensitive electronic or other devices.
- clubwomen — Plural form of clubwoman.
- co-manage — to manage (something) jointly
- co-member — a fellow member of a particular group or organization
- coal mine — A coal mine is a place where coal is dug out of the ground.
- coal seam — a bed of coal.
- coalminer — One who mines for coal.
- coalmines — Plural form of coalmine.
- cob money — crude silver coins issued in the Spanish colonies of the New World from about 1600 until 1820
- cockleman — a man who collects cockles
- code name — A code name is a name used for someone or something in order to keep their identity secret.
- code-name — to assign a code name to.
- codenamed — Simple past tense and past participle of codename.
- codenames — Plural form of codename.
- coelomata — animals possessing a coelom
- coelomate — an animal that possesses a coelom
- coemption — the buying up of the complete supply of a commodity
- coenamour — to enamour jointly
- coenobium — a monastery or convent
- coenzymes — Plural form of coenzyme.
- cofferdam — a watertight structure, usually of sheet piling, that encloses an area under water, pumped dry to enable construction work to be carried out. Below a certain depth a caisson is required
- cognomens — Plural form of cognomen.
- cold meat — a form of meat that has been cooked and allowed to become cold
- colectomy — surgical removal of part or all of the colon
- coliseums — Plural form of coliseum.
- collegium — (in the former Soviet Union) a board in charge of a department
- collimate — to adjust the line of sight of (an optical instrument)
- colosseum — an amphitheatre in Rome built about 75–80 ad
- columbate — any salt of columbic acid
- columbine — any plant of the ranunculaceous genus Aquilegia, having purple, blue, yellow, or red flowers with five spurred petals
- columbite — a black mineral consisting of a niobium oxide of iron and manganese in orthorhombic crystalline form: occurs in coarse granite, often with tantalite, and is an ore of niobium. Formula: (Fe, Mn)(Nb)2O6
- columella — the central part of the spore-producing body of some fungi and mosses
- com. ver. — Common Version (of the Bible)