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9-letter words containing h, a, p, o

  • cash crop — A cash crop is a crop that is grown in order to be sold.
  • cashpoint — A cashpoint is the same as a cash dispenser.
  • cataphora — the use of a word such as a pronoun that has the same reference as a word used subsequently in the same discourse
  • catchpole — (in medieval England) a sheriff's officer who arrested debtors
  • catchpoll — (formerly) a petty officer of justice, especially one arresting persons for debt.
  • cenotaphs — Plural form of cenotaph.
  • cephaloid — Shaped like the head or the brain.
  • cephalous — having a head
  • cerograph — an engraving or writing on wax
  • chaetopod — any annelid worm of the classes Oligochaeta or Polychaeta
  • champions — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of champion.
  • chapbooks — Plural form of chapbook.
  • chaperone — A chaperone is someone who accompanies another person somewhere in order to make sure that they do not come to any harm.
  • chaperons — Plural form of chaperon.
  • chaseport — a porthole through which a gun was fired
  • chassepot — a breech-loading bolt-action rifle formerly used by the French Army
  • cheap out — to take the cheapest option; try to do something as cheaply as possible
  • chipboard — Chipboard is a hard material made out of very small pieces of wood which have been pressed together. It is often used for making doors and furniture.
  • chipolata — a small sausage in a narrow casing
  • chokedamp — blackdamp
  • chop mark — a notch or other mark made in a coin to indicate verification of its authenticity, especially by a banker or merchant in the Far East during the 18th or 19th centuries.
  • chopsteak — chopped steak.
  • cloth cap — A cloth cap is a soft flat cap with a stiff, curved part at the front called a peak. Cloth caps are usually worn by men.
  • cloth-cap — pertaining to or characteristic of the working class.
  • coachwhip — a coachwhip snake
  • cockahoop — Alternative form of cock-a-hoop.
  • coliphage — a bacteriophage
  • crapshoot — If you describe something as a crapshoot, you mean that what happens depends entirely on luck or chance.
  • cymograph — an instrument for tracing the outline of an architectural moulding
  • cymophane — a yellow or green opalescent variety of chrysoberyl
  • cytopathy — a disease or disorder of a cell
  • cytophagy — the ingestion of cells by other cells.
  • diaphones — Plural form of diaphone.
  • diaphonic — Of or pertaining to diaphony.
  • dish soap — a detergent added to dishwater in order to clean dishes
  • dog-cheap — very inexpensive.
  • dopeheads — Plural form of dopehead.
  • drop arch — a pointed arch having radii of length less than the span.
  • dysphonia — any disturbance of normal vocal function.
  • dysphoria — a state of dissatisfaction, anxiety, restlessness, or fidgeting.
  • earphones — (countable) Plural form of earphone.
  • echograph — a device that records oceanic depths by means of sonic waves.
  • ecophobia — Fear of one\u2019s home.
  • eidograph — a type of pantograph that was invented by the Scottish mathematician William Wallace in 1821 and which was more accurate than other pantographs
  • endophagy — cannibalism within the same group or tribe
  • ephoralty — an ephor's office
  • epochally — In an epochal manner.
  • ergograph — A graph that shows a relation between human activities, or agricultural/climate factors, and a seasonal year.
  • esophagus — The part of the alimentary canal that connects the throat to the stomach; the gullet. In humans and other vertebrates it is a muscular tube lined with mucous membrane.
  • esophoria — (ophthalmology) Inward deviation of the eye usually due to extra-ocular muscle imbalance.
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