9-letter words containing h, a, s, o, c
- chapbooks — Plural form of chapbook.
- chaperons — Plural form of chaperon.
- charangos — Plural form of charango.
- charcoals — Plural form of charcoal.
- chargeous — (obsolete) burdensome.
- charolais — a breed of large white beef cattle that originated in France
- charoseth — haroseth.
- chaseport — a porthole through which a gun was fired
- chassepot — a breech-loading bolt-action rifle formerly used by the French Army
- chat show — A chat show is a television or radio show in which people talk in a friendly, informal way about different topics.
- chatrooms — Plural form of chatroom.
- chelators — Plural form of chelator.
- chemostat — an apparatus for growing bacterial cultures at a constant rate by controlling the supply of nutrient medium
- cheongsam — a straight dress, usually of silk or cotton, with a stand-up collar and a slit in one side of the skirt, worn by Chinese women
- chisimaio — a port in S Somalia, on the Indian Ocean. Pop: reliable recent estimates are not available
- chlorates — Plural form of chlorate.
- chokeslam — A wrestling move in which someone is picked up by their neck and is driven into the mat.
- chomskyan — of or relating to Noam Chomsky or his linguistic theories, especially to transformational-generative grammar.
- choosable — to select from a number of possibilities; pick by preference: She chose Sunday for her departure.
- chopsteak — chopped steak.
- choralist — a person who sings in a chorus or ensemble
- chordates — belonging or pertaining to the phylum Chordata, comprising the true vertebrates and those animals having a notochord, as the lancelets and tunicates.
- choriambs — Plural form of choriamb.
- chromates — Plural form of chromate.
- churrasco — meat cooked over an open fire.
- cinchonas — Plural form of cinchona.
- closehead — the entrance to a tenement close
- coalhouse — a shed or building for storing coal
- coauthors — Plural form of coauthor.
- codeshare — (aviation) Agreement whereby an airline buys space on another airline and markets the extra space as its own. Often used to increase a route network without the costs of running a full service.
- cohobates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cohobate.
- cokeheads — Plural form of cokehead.
- cold cash — money paid in full at the time of a business transaction
- cookshack — a makeshift building in which food is cooked
- coolibahs — Plural form of coolibah.
- cornbrash — a type of limestone which produces good soil for growing corn
- coronachs — Plural form of coronach.
- cow shark — any large primitive shark, esp Hexanchus griseum, of the family Hexanchidae of warm and temperate waters
- crapshoot — If you describe something as a crapshoot, you mean that what happens depends entirely on luck or chance.
- crash out — If someone crashes out somewhere, they fall asleep where they are because they are very tired or drunk.
- crash-hot — extremely impressive
- crosshair — either of the two fine mutually perpendicular lines or wires that cross in the focal plane of a theodolite, gunsight, or other optical instrument and are used to define the line of sight
- crosshead — a subsection or paragraph heading printed within the body of the text
- disanchor — to raise the anchor of (a ship)
- dockhands — Plural form of dockhand.
- encheason — a reason
- escheator — a person appointed to deal with escheats
- eulachons — Plural form of eulachon.
- falchions — Plural form of falchion.
- forasmuch — Inasmuch, seeing (that).