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9-letter words containing h, o, a, r

  • bush road — a rough road cut through forested land usually to serve a lumbering, mining, or other commercial company.
  • canephora — Caryatid that supports a basket on her head.
  • cape horn — a rocky headland on an island at the extreme S tip of South America, belonging to Chile. It is notorious for gales and heavy seas; until the building of the Panama Canal it lay on the only sea route between the Atlantic and the Pacific
  • car phone — A car phone is a mobile phone, especially one which is designed to be used in a car.
  • carbachol — a cholinergic agent, C6H15ClN2O2, used for various ophthalmic purposes, such as the treating of glaucoma
  • cardphone — a public telephone operated by the insertion of a phonecard instead of coins
  • care home — A care home is a large house or institution where people with particular problems or special needs are looked after.
  • carothers — Wallace Hume1896-1937; U.S. chemist
  • carthorse — A carthorse is a large, powerful horse that is used to pull carts or farm machinery.
  • cartouche — a carved or cast ornamental tablet or panel in the form of a scroll, sometimes having an inscription
  • cash crop — A cash crop is a crop that is grown in order to be sold.
  • cataphora — the use of a word such as a pronoun that has the same reference as a word used subsequently in the same discourse
  • catchword — A catchword is a word or phrase that becomes popular or well-known, for example, because it is associated with a political campaign.
  • catchwork — A simple irrigation system, used on sloping land, in which water from a stream or spring is fed in at the top and allowed to trickle down over a number of artificial terraces.
  • cerograph — an engraving or writing on wax
  • chaeronea — an ancient Greek town in W Boeotia: site of the victory of Philip of Macedon over the Athenians and Thebans (338 bc) and of Sulla over Mithridates (86 bc)
  • chainwork — any work linked or looped in the manner of or resembling a chain or chains
  • chamfrons — Plural form of chamfron.
  • chancroid — a soft venereal ulcer, esp of the male genitals, caused by infection with the bacillus Haemophilus ducreyi
  • chancrous — (medicine) Of the nature of a chancre; affected by chancre.
  • chaperone — A chaperone is someone who accompanies another person somewhere in order to make sure that they do not come to any harm.
  • chaperons — Plural form of chaperon.
  • charangos — Plural form of charango.
  • charbroil — to grill (meat) over charcoal
  • charcoals — Plural form of charcoal.
  • charcoaly — resembling charcoal
  • chardzhou — a city in E Turkmenistan, on the Amu Darya.
  • chargeoff — Alternative spelling of charge off.
  • chargeous — (obsolete) burdensome.
  • charleroi — a town in SW Belgium, in Hainaut province: centre of an industrial region. Pop: 200 608 (2004 est)
  • charleton — a male given name.
  • charlotte — a baked dessert served hot or cold, commonly made with fruit and layers or a casing of bread or cake crumbs, sponge cake, etc
  • charolais — a breed of large white beef cattle that originated in France
  • charoseth — haroseth.
  • charwoman — A charwoman is a woman who is employed to clean houses or offices.
  • charwomen — Plural form of charwoman.
  • chaseport — a porthole through which a gun was fired
  • chat room — A chat room is a site on the Internet where people can exchange messages about a particular subject.
  • chatrooms — Plural form of chatroom.
  • chelators — Plural form of chelator.
  • cherimoya — a deciduous shrub or small tree, native to the Andean highlands, which produces an oval fruit with cream-coloured flesh
  • chermoula — a marinade used in N African cookery
  • chinaroot — the root of either of two plants, the galanga or the smilax
  • chipboard — Chipboard is a hard material made out of very small pieces of wood which have been pressed together. It is often used for making doors and furniture.
  • chirimoya — cherimoya.
  • chloracne — a disfiguring skin disease that results from contact with or ingestion or inhalation of certain chlorinated aromatic hydrocarbons
  • chloranil — a yellow, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 6 Cl 4 O 2 , used chiefly as a fungicide and as an intermediate in the manufacture of dyes.
  • chlorates — Plural form of chlorate.
  • chlordane — a white insoluble toxic solid existing in several isomeric forms and usually used, as an insecticide, in the form of a brown impure liquid. Formula: C10H6Cl8
  • chlorella — any microscopic unicellular green alga of the genus Chlorella: some species are used in the preparation of human food
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