9-letter words containing e, r, c, h
- benchmark — A benchmark is something whose quality or quantity is known and which can therefore be used as a standard with which other things can be compared.
- benchrest — a tablelike support for a target rifle used in target practice.
- berdichev — a city in W central Ukraine, SW of Kiev.
- bewitcher — a person who enchants or bewitches
- bleachers — The bleachers are a part of an outdoor sports stadium, or the seats in that area, which are usually uncovered and are the least expensive place where people can sit.
- bleachery — a place where bleaching is carried out
- brachiate — having widely divergent paired branches
- branchery — a group or system of branches
- branchiae — the gills of an aquatic animal
- branchlet — a small branch
- brash ice — small, floating fragments of sea ice or river ice.
- breaching — the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture.
- brechtian — Bertolt [ber-tawlt] /ˈbɛr tɔlt/ (Show IPA), 1898–1956, German dramatist and poet.
- breeching — the strap of a harness that passes behind a horse's haunches
- 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)
- butcher's — a look
- butchered — a retail or wholesale dealer in meat.
- butcherer — a person who butchers
- butcherly — of or resembling a butcher
- camelhair — the hair of the camel or dromedary, used in clothing, rugs, etc
- canephora — Caryatid that supports a basket on her head.
- 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.
- cashiered — to dismiss (a military officer) from service, especially with disgrace.
- cashierer — a person who rejects or dismisses from office
- catharise — purify
- catharize — to purify or make clean
- catharses — Plural form of catharsis.
- cathedral — A cathedral is a very large and important church which has a bishop in charge of it.
- catherine — Saint. died 307 ad, legendary Christian martyr of Alexandria, who was tortured on a spiked wheel and beheaded
- catheters — Plural form of catheter.
- cauchemar — a nightmare
- cerecloth — waxed waterproof cloth of a kind formerly used as a shroud
- cerograph — an engraving or writing on wax
- chaeronea — an ancient Greek town in W Boeotia: site of the victory of Philip of Macedon over the Athenians and Thebans (338 bc) and of Sulla over Mithridates (86 bc)
- chaffered — Simple past tense and past participle of chaffer.
- chafferer — One who chaffers; a bargainer.
- chagrined — If you are chagrined by something, it disappoints, upsets, or annoys you, perhaps because of your own failure.
- chair bed — a chair that can be opened out to form a bed.