9-letter words containing h, o, t, c, i
- chortling — to chuckle gleefully.
- christoff — Boris. 1919–93, Bulgarian bass-baritone, noted esp for his performance in the title role of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov
- chromatic — In music, chromatic means related to the scale that consists only of semitones.
- chromatid — either of the two strands into which a chromosome divides during mitosis. They separate to form daughter chromosomes at anaphase
- chromatin — the part of the nucleus that consists of DNA and proteins, forms the chromosomes, and stains with basic dyes
- chthonian — of or relating to the underworld
- chukotian — a group of genetically related languages spoken on the Chukchi and Kamchatka peninsulas in eastern Siberia, including Chukchi, Kamchadal, and Koryak.
- cirrhotic — a disease of the liver characterized by increase of connective tissue and alteration in gross and microscopic makeup.
- cithaeron — a mountain range in SE Greece: sacred to Dionysus, in Greek mythology. to 4623 feet (1409 meters).
- clothiers — Plural form of clothier.
- clothings — Plural form of clothing.
- coccolith — any of the round calcareous plates in chalk formations: formed the outer layer of unicellular plankton
- cockfight — a fight between two gamecocks fitted with sharp metal spurs
- cognitech — (company) A French software company specialising in artificial intelligence.
- cohabited — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- cohabitee — A person who cohabits with another.
- cohabiter — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- coheritor — a coheir
- coinhabit — To inhabit together.
- coinherit — To inherit together with other or others; to be one of the inheritors.
- coltishly — In a coltish manner.
- conchitis — inflammation of the outer ear
- coprolith — a hard stony mass of dried faeces in the intestine that is caused by chronic constipation
- 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.
- countship — the rank or position of a count.
- courtship — Courtship is the activity of courting or the time during which a man and a woman are courting.
- cristophe — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), ("Henri I"I) 1767–1820, Haitian revolutionary general, born in Grenada: king 1811–20.
- 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
- cushionet — a small cushion
- cyclolith — a stone circle
- cystolith — a knoblike deposit of calcium carbonate in the epidermal cells of such plants as the stinging nettle
- dichoptic — having the eyes distinctly separate
- dichotomy — If there is a dichotomy between two things, there is a very great difference or opposition between them.
- dichroite — cordierite.
- dichromat — a person whose vision can only distinguish two colours
- dishcloth — a cloth for use in washing dishes; dishrag.
- dishclout — a cloth for use in washing dishes; dishrag.
- dithionic — of or derived from dithionic acid.
- ditrochee — a form of poetic meter in which two trochees constitute one metrical unit.
- dot pitch — (hardware) The distance between a dot and the closest dot of the same colour (red, green or blue) on a color CRT. Dot pitch is typically from 0.28 to 0.51 mm but large presentation monitors may go up to 1.0 mm. The smaller the dot pitch, the crisper the image, 0.31 or less provides a sharp image, especially when displaying text. Dot pitch measurements between conventional tubes and Sony's Trinitron tubes are roughly, but not exactly comparable. Sony's CRTs use vertical stripes, not dots, and its measurement is the distance between stripes, not the diagonal distance between dots.
- dowitcher — any of several long-billed, snipelike shore birds of North America and Asia, especially Limnodromus griseus.
- escovitch — Alternative form of escoveitch.
- ethnocide — The deliberate and systematic destruction of the culture of an ethnic group.
- eutrophic — (of a lake or other body of water) rich in nutrients and so supporting a dense plant population, the decomposition of which kills animal life by depriving it of oxygen.
- exophytic — (pathology) In pathology, pertaining to growth of a tumor outward.
- geophytic — Relating to geophytes.
- gnathonic — sycophantic; fawning.
- gothicism — conformity or devotion to the gothic style in the arts.
- gothicize — to make gothic, as in style.