9-letter words containing h, e, c, o
- hyporheic — Denoting an area or ecosystem beneath the bed of a river or stream that is saturated with water and that supports invertebrate fauna which play a role in the larger ecosystem.
- hypotheca — (microbiology, planktology) The lower or posterior half of the theca of a thecate protist such as a diatom or dinoflagellate.
- hypoxemic — inadequate oxygenation of the blood.
- ice house — a building for storing ice.
- icehouses — Plural form of icehouse.
- ichneumon — Also called African mongoose, Egyptian mongoose. a slender, long-tailed mongoose, Herpestes ichneumon, inhabiting Africa and southern Europe, and believed by the ancient Egyptians to devour crocodile eggs.
- isocheims — Plural form of isocheim.
- isochrone — a line, as on a map, connecting all points having some property simultaneously, as in having the same delay in receiving a radio signal from a given source or requiring the same time to be reached by available transportation from a given center.
- jockeyish — resembling a jockey
- kalanchoe — any of several chiefly African and Asian succulent plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Kalanchoe, of the stonecrop family, having mostly opposite leaves and branching clusters of flowers.
- lecherous — given to or characterized by lechery; lustful.
- leucothea — a sea goddess, the deified Ino, who gave Odysseus a veil as a float after a storm had destroyed his raft.
- leucothoe — any of various shrubs of the genus Leucothoe, of the heath family, having clusters of white or pinkish flowers.
- lichenous — of, relating to, or resembling a lichen.
- loch ness — a lake in NW Scotland, near Inverness. 23 miles (37 km) long.
- lockhouse — the house of a lock-keeper
- lovechild — A child born to parents who aren't married to one another.
- luncheons — Plural form of luncheon.
- macroetch — to etch deeply into the surface of (a metal).
- mascouche — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- mcpherson — Aimee Semple [sem-puh l] /ˈsɛm pəl/ (Show IPA), 1890–1944, U.S. evangelist, born in Canada.
- mechnikov — Ilya Ilyich [ee-lyah ee-lyeech] /iˈlyɑ iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), Metchnikoff, Élie.
- metarchon — a nontoxic substance, such as a chemical to mask pheromones, that reduces the persistence of a pest
- michelson — Albert Abraham, 1852–1931, U.S. physicist, born in Prussia (now Poland): Nobel prize 1907.
- micromesh — a very fine mesh
- mischoice — a bad or wrong choice
- mischoose — to make a wrong or improper choice.
- mischosen — to make a wrong or improper choice.
- mochiness — a fusty, dank, or humid condition
- molochise — sacrifice to deity
- molochize — to offer up or immolate to a god
- 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).
- mosbacher — Emil, Jr ("Bus") 1922–1997, U.S. yacht racer and government official.
- moschatel — a small plant, Adoxa moschatellina, having greenish or yellowish flowers with a musky odor.
- mouchette — a daggerlike form, especially in tracery, created by a segmental and an ogee curve so that it is pointed at one end and circular at the other.
- moustache — the hair growing on the upper lip.
- mycophile — A person who likes hunting for, cooking or eating mushrooms and other edible fungi.
- nahcolite — a carbonate mineral, naturally occurring sodium bicarbonate, NaHCO 3 .
- neckcloth — cravat (def 2).
- 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.
- nephrotic — Pertaining to, resembling or caused by nephrosis.
- neurochip — a semiconductor chip designed for use in an electronic neural network
- nictheroy — Niterói.
- nonethnic — not of or associated with any particular ethnic background or group: some of the best nonethnic cooking in town.
- nonheroic — Not heroic.
- nonspeech — absence of speech; silence, muteness