9-letter words containing h, g
- chu kiang — Zhu Jiang.
- chuckling — Present participle of chuckle.
- chungking — Chongqing
- churching — the act of bringing someone, esp a woman after childbirth, to church for special ceremonies
- churnings — Plural form of churning.
- ciphering — calculating
- clenching — Present participle of clench.
- cliffhang — (of a serial or film) to end on a note of suspense
- clinching — Present participle of clinch.
- clingfish — any small marine teleost fish of the family Gobiesocidae, having a flattened elongated body with a sucking disc beneath the head for clinging to rocks, etc
- clothings — Plural form of clothing.
- clutching — to hatch (chickens).
- coach dog — Dalmatian
- cockfight — a fight between two gamecocks fitted with sharp metal spurs
- cognitech — (company) A French software company specialising in artificial intelligence.
- cogwheels — Plural form of cogwheel.
- cohousing — a type of housing with some shared facilities
- coliphage — a bacteriophage
- connaught — Connacht
- copyfight — the conflict between copyright holders and other individuals over the use, distribution, and replication of copyright materials
- copyright — If someone has copyright on a piece of writing or music, it is illegal to reproduce or perform it without their permission.
- coshering — Present participle of cosher.
- couchings — the act of a person or thing that couches.
- cowhiding — Present participle of cowhide.
- crouching — to stoop or bend low.
- crunching — to crush with the teeth; chew with a crushing noise.
- cybergoth — (uncountable) A subculture combining elements of goth and rave culture, typically involving energetic electronic music and brightly coloured, futuristic clothing.
- cymograph — an instrument for tracing the outline of an architectural moulding
- cytophagy — the ingestion of cells by other cells.
- 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)
- dashingly — In a dashing manner.
- dashlight — a light illuminating the dashboard of an automobile, esp at night
- daughters — Plural form of daughter.
- dawnlight — The light of dawn.
- daylights — consciousness or wits (esp in the phrases scare, knock, or beat the (living) daylights out of someone)
- deadlight — a bull's-eye let into the deck or hull of a vessel to admit light to a cabin
- degarnish — to remove ornamentation from (something)
- dehorning — Present participle of dehorn.
- dehulling — to remove the hulls from (beans, seeds, etc.); hull.
- delighted — If you are delighted, you are extremely pleased and excited about something.
- delighter — a high degree of pleasure or enjoyment; joy; rapture: She takes great delight in her job.
- detaching — Present participle of detach.
- diaghilev — Sergei (Pavlovich) (sɪrˈɡjej ˈpavləvitʃ). 1872–1929, Russian ballet impresario. He founded (1909) and directed (1909–29) the Ballets Russes in Paris, introducing Russian ballet to the West
- diagraphs — Plural form of diagraph.
- diaphragm — Your diaphragm is a muscle between your lungs and your stomach. It is used when you breathe.
- dichogamy — the maturation of male and female parts of a flower at different times, preventing automatic self-pollination
- digraphic — Of or pertaining to a digraph.
- diphthong — Phonetics. an unsegmentable, gliding speech sound varying continuously in phonetic quality but held to be a single sound or phoneme and identified by its apparent beginning and ending sound, as the oi- sound of toy or boil.
- discharge — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
- dithering — a trembling; vibration.