9-letter words containing h, o, t, c, i
- haircloth — cloth of hair from the manes and tails of horses, woven with a cotton warp, and used for interlinings of clothes, upholstery, etc.
- halitotic — of or relating to halitosis
- haplontic — (chiefly of an alga or other lower plant) having a life cycle in which the main form is haploid, with a diploid zygote being formed only briefly.
- haycation — A vacation stay on a farm, in which guests often help out with daily farm tasks.
- hectoring — Classical Mythology. the eldest son of Priam and husband of Andromache: the greatest Trojan hero in the Trojan War, killed by Achilles.
- hectorism — the character or actions of a hector
- hemolytic — the breaking down of red blood cells with liberation of hemoglobin.
- hemotoxic — a toxin, as cobra venom, that causes a hemolytic reaction.
- hepatoxic — Exhibiting hepatoxicity.
- heroicity — suitable to the character of a hero in size or concept; daring; noble: a heroic ambition.
- heterotic — Of or relating to heterosis (hybrid vigor).
- hick town — an insulting way of referring to a small town in the countryside that is not deemed to be very sophisticated
- hierocrat — a person who believes in government by religious leaders
- hircosity — the quality of being like a goat
- hitchcock — Sir Alfred (Joseph) 1899–1980, U.S. film and television director and producer, born in England.
- hoatching — infested; swarming
- holarctic — belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising the Nearctic and Palearctic regions.
- holotypic — Relating to a holotype.
- holy city — a city regarded as particularly sacred by the adherents of a religious faith, as Jerusalem by Jews and Christians, Mecca and Medina by Muslims, and Varanasi by Hindus.
- homiletic — of or relating to preaching or to homilies.
- homolytic — Of, pertaining to, or produced by homolysis.
- homotonic — of the same tone
- homotopic — (topology, of two maps) Such that there is an interval of maps joining one to the other.
- homotypic — of or relating to a homotype.
- horotelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate standard for a given group of plants or animals.
- hotchkiss — Hazel, Wightman, Hazel Hotchkiss.
- hydroptic — (formerly) edema.
- hypnotics — Plural form of hypnotic.
- hypocrite — a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, especially one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.
- hypotonic — Physiology. (of tissue) having less than the normal tone.
- hypotrich — any ciliate of the suborder Hypotricha, having cilia chiefly on the ventral surface.
- ichthyoid — Also, ichthyoidal. fishlike.
- isobathic — having the same depth.
- jock itch — a fungal infection of the skin in the groin area, occurring most commonly in males, especially in warm climates, characterized by itchy and often scaly lesions; tinea cruris.
- laccolith — a mass of igneous rock formed from magma that did not find its way to the surface but spread laterally into a lenticular body, forcing overlying strata to bulge upward.
- lithocyst — a sac, containing otoliths, found in many invertebrates, supposedly connected to hearing and orientation
- locksmith — a person who makes or repairs locks and keys.
- loincloth — a piece of cloth worn around the loins or hips, especially in tropical regions as the only item of clothing.
- macchiato — a hot beverage consisting of espresso and a small amount of foamed milk.
- macintosh — a raincoat made of rubberized cloth.
- macrolith — a stone tool about 1 foot (30 cm) long.
- masochist — Psychiatry. a person who has masochism, the condition in which sexual or other gratification depends on one's suffering physical pain or humiliation.
- microlith — a tiny stone tool, often of geometric shape, made from a bladelet and mounted singly or in series as the working part of a composite tool or weapon, especially during late Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic times.
- microthin — extremely or, sometimes, microscopically thin: a microthin layer of aluminum.
- monopitch — having only one slope or a slope with a regular gradient
- monostich — a poem or epigram consisting of a single metrical line.
- morphotic — (biology) Connected with, or becoming an integral part of, a living unit or of the morphological framework.
- mustachio — a mustache.
- myopathic — Pertaining to myopathy.
- nahcolite — a carbonate mineral, naturally occurring sodium bicarbonate, NaHCO 3 .