9-letter words containing h, e, p, c
- chaptered — a main division of a book, treatise, or the like, usually bearing a number or title.
- charge up — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- chaseport — a porthole through which a gun was fired
- chassepot — a breech-loading bolt-action rifle formerly used by the French Army
- chautemps — Camille [ka-mee-yuh] /kaˈmi yə/ (Show IPA), 1885–1963, French politician: premier 1930, 1933–34, 1937–38.
- cheap out — to take the cheapest option; try to do something as cheaply as possible
- cheapened — Simple past tense and past participle of cheapen.
- cheapener — One who cheapens.
- cheapjack — a peddler, especially of inferior articles.
- cheapness — The state of being cheap.
- cheapside — street and district of London; in the Middle Ages it was a marketplace
- chemitype — an obsolete chemical process by which a relief impression was obtained from an engraving or etching
- chemitypy — the process of chemitype
- chempaduk — an evergreen moraceous tree, Artocarpus champeden (or A. integer), of Malaysia, similar to the jackfruit
- cheruping — Present participle of cherup.
- chess pie — a dessert made of a custardlike mixture of butter, sugar, eggs, etc., baked in a pie shell
- chick-pea — Also called garbanzo. a widely cultivated plant, Cicer arietinum, of the legume family, bearing pods containing pealike seeds.
- chickpeas — Plural form of chickpea.
- chiefship — the post or situation of a chief
- chiltepin — a variety of chilli pepper, Capsicum annuum, growing wild in Mexico and the south-western United States
- chioppine — Alternative form of chopine.
- chipewyan — a member of a North American Indian people of NW Canada
- chipheads — Plural form of chiphead.
- chipmaker — a manufacturer of electronic chips.
- chipotles — Plural form of chipotle.
- chippable — having the ability to be reduced to small pieces
- chippered — to chirp or twitter.
- chippeway — Chippewa.
- chiropter — an animal of the order Chiroptera; a bat
- chirruped — Simple past tense and past participle of chirrup.
- choephori — a tragedy (458 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
- chokedamp — blackdamp
- choose up — to decide on the opposing players, as for an impromptu ballgame
- chop suey — Chop suey is a Chinese-style dish that consists of meat and vegetables that have been stewed together.
- chophouse — a restaurant specializing in steaks, grills, chops, etc
- choppered — Simple past tense and past participle of chopper.
- chopsteak — chopped steak.
- cinephile — a person who loves films and cinema
- ciphering — calculating
- clerkship — The position or status of a clerk, especially in the legal profession.
- clipsheet — a sheet of paper with text printed on one side only
- coliphage — a bacteriophage
- copperish — resembling copper
- coryphene — either of two large marine percoid fishes, Coryphaena hippurus or C. equisetis, that resemble the cetacean dolphins and have an iridescent coloration
- cosphered — sharing the same sphere
- crisphead — a variety of lettuce with a dense cabbage-like head and mild crunchy leaves
- cristophe — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), ("Henri I"I) 1767–1820, Haitian revolutionary general, born in Grenada: king 1811–20.
- cryophile — (biology) An organism that thrives at low temperatures.
- cryophyte — an organism, esp an alga or moss, that grows on snow or ice
- ctesiphon — an ancient city on the River Tigris about 100 km (60 miles) above Babylon. First mentioned in 221 bc, it was destroyed in the 7th and 8th centuries ad