9-letter words containing h, c, i
- michelson — Albert Abraham, 1852–1931, U.S. physicist, born in Prussia (now Poland): Nobel prize 1907.
- michoacan — a state in SW Mexico. 23,196 sq. mi. (60,080 sq. km). Capital: Morelia.
- microchip — chip1 (def 5).
- microinch — a unit of length equal to one millionth of an inch. Symbol: μin.
- microlith — a tiny stone tool, often of geometric shape, made from a bladelet and mounted singly or in series as the working part of a composite tool or weapon, especially during late Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic times.
- micromesh — a very fine mesh
- microthin — extremely or, sometimes, microscopically thin: a microthin layer of aluminum.
- milch cow — milk cow.
- minicoach — a small bus or buslike van.
- miryachit — A disorder found in Siberia, characterized by a jumping motion.
- mischance — a mishap or misfortune.
- mischancy — unlucky; unfortunate
- mischarge — (legal or, finance) To charge wrongly.
- mischiefe — Obsolete spelling of mischief.
- mischiefs — Plural form of mischief.
- mischoice — a bad or wrong choice
- mischoose — to make a wrong or improper choice.
- mischosen — to make a wrong or improper choice.
- mishpocha — an entire family network comprising relatives by blood and marriage and sometimes including close friends; clan.
- misspeech — (obsolete) Wrong speech.
- mizoguchi — Kenji (ˈkɛndʒɪ). 1898–1956, Japanese film director. His films include A Paper Doll's Whisper of Spring (1925), Woman of Osaka (1940), and Ugetsu Monogatari (1952)
- mochiness — a fusty, dank, or humid condition
- molochise — sacrifice to deity
- molochize — to offer up or immolate to a god
- monachism — monasticism.
- monarchic — of, like, or pertaining to a monarch or monarchy.
- monopitch — having only one slope or a slope with a regular gradient
- monorchid — having or appearing to have only one testis.
- monostich — a poem or epigram consisting of a single metrical line.
- moonchild — a person born under the zodiacal sign of Cancer.
- morphemic — any of the minimal grammatical units of a language, each constituting a word or meaningful part of a word, that cannot be divided into smaller independent grammatical parts, as the, write, or the -ed of waited. Compare allomorph (def 2), morph (def 1).
- morphinic — of, pertaining to, or resembling morphine
- morphotic — (biology) Connected with, or becoming an integral part of, a living unit or of the morphological framework.
- mummichog — a silver and black killifish, Fundulus heteroclitus, found in fresh, brackish, and salt water along the Atlantic coast of the U.S.
- munchkins — Plural form of munchkin.
- murchison — an intermittent river in W Australia, flowing SW to the Indian Ocean. 440 miles (708 km) long.
- mustachio — a mustache.
- mycophile — A person who likes hunting for, cooking or eating mushrooms and other edible fungi.
- myopathic — Pertaining to myopathy.
- mythicise — Alt form mythicize.
- mythicism — (theology) the scholarly opinion that the gospel is mythical.
- mythicize — to turn into, treat, or explain as a myth.
- mytishchi — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Moscow.
- nahcolite — a carbonate mineral, naturally occurring sodium bicarbonate, NaHCO 3 .
- naumachia — a mock sea fight, given as a spectacle among the ancient Romans.
- necrophil — person who is sexually attracted to dead bodies
- neogothic — of, relating to, or designating chiefly a style of architecture in which gothic motifs and forms are imitated.
- neolithic — (sometimes lowercase) Anthropology. of, relating to, or characteristic of the last phase of the Stone Age, marked by the domestication of animals, the development of agriculture, and the manufacture of pottery and textiles: commonly thought to have begun c9000–8000 b.c. in the Middle East. Compare Mesolithic, Paleolithic.
- neophobic — Afflicted by neophobia; fearing or disliking what is new.
- neophytic — a beginner or novice: He's a neophyte at chess.