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9-letter words containing h, e, a

  • cohobates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cohobate.
  • cokeheads — Plural form of cokehead.
  • coliphage — a bacteriophage
  • cot death — Cot death is the sudden death of a baby while it is asleep, although the baby had not previously been ill.
  • cothamore — a frieze fabric, often used in the manufacture of overcoats.
  • crackhead — a person addicted to the drug crack
  • cranreuch — a hoarfrost
  • crisphead — a variety of lettuce with a dense cabbage-like head and mild crunchy leaves
  • crosshead — a subsection or paragraph heading printed within the body of the text
  • crushable — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
  • cryolathe — an instrument for reshaping the cornea to correct severe nearsightedness or farsightedness: the cornea is removed from the eye, rapidly frozen, reshaped, and reinserted.
  • cup shake — wind shake.
  • curlyhead — a person whose hair is curly.
  • cybercash — Funds used in electronic financial transactions, especially over the Internet.
  • cyberchat — Chat that takes place on the Internet, as in a chatroom or via instant messages.
  • cyberhack — Computers. hack1 (def 22b).
  • cyberrhea — (humour, jargon)   /si:'ber-eer/ An affliction of some word processor users; excessive frequency and looseness of productivity. Particularly virulent among those who have not discovered the fortifying virtues of revision.
  • cyclepath — a special path for the exclusive use of cyclists
  • cymophane — a yellow or green opalescent variety of chrysoberyl
  • cytherean — of or relating to Cytherea.
  • dado head — a rotary cutter composed of several sawlike blades side by side, for cutting dadoes in wood.
  • daghestan — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: annexed from Persia in 1813; rich mineral resources. Capital: Makhachkala. Pop: 2 584 200 (2002). Area: 50 278 sq km (19 416 sq miles)
  • dahabeahs — Plural form of dahabeah.
  • dalhousie — 9th Earl of, title of George Ramsay. 1770–1838, British general; governor of the British colonies in Canada (1819–28)
  • dancehall — a style of dance-oriented reggae, originating in the late 1980s
  • darkhorse — Having the character of a dark horse.
  • datasheet — A document summarizing the performance and other technical characteristics of a product.
  • daughters — Plural form of daughter.
  • dead hand — You can refer to the dead hand of a particular thing when that thing has a bad or depressing influence on a particular situation.
  • dead heat — If a race or contest is a dead heat, two or more competitors are joint winners, or are both winning at a particular moment in the race or contest. In American English, you can say that a race or contest is in a dead heat.
  • dead-head — To dead-head a plant which is flowering means to remove all the dead flowers from it.
  • deadheads — Plural form of deadhead.
  • deadhouse — a mortuary
  • deadlight — a bull's-eye let into the deck or hull of a vessel to admit light to a cabin
  • deal with — When you deal with something or someone that needs attention, you give your attention to them, and often solve a problem or make a decision concerning them.
  • dear john — a letter from a woman informing her boyfriend or fiancé that she is ending their relationship or informing her husband that she wants a divorce: Nothing is worse for a soldier's morale than getting a Dear John.
  • dearheart — A term of affection.
  • death cap — a poisonous woodland saprotrophic basidiomycetous fungus, Amanita phalloides, differing from the edible mushroom (Agaricus) only in its white gills (pinkish-brown in Agaricus) and the presence of a volva
  • death cup — a poisonous mushroom of the genus Amanita.
  • death ray — an imaginary ray capable of killing
  • death row — If someone is on death row, they are in the part of a prison which contains the cells for criminals who have been sentenced to death.
  • death tax — a tax on money or property that a person inherits
  • deathbeds — Plural form of deathbed.
  • deathbell — Alternative form of death bell.
  • deathblow — a thing or event that destroys life or hope, esp suddenly
  • deathless — immortal, esp because of greatness; everlasting
  • deathlike — resembling or suggestive of death
  • deathsman — an executioner
  • deathtrap — If you say that a place or vehicle is a deathtrap, you mean it is in such bad condition that it might cause someone's death.
  • deathward — having an inclination or disposition towards death
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