9-letter words containing h, r, m
- bush tram — a railway line in the bush, used to facilitate the entry of workers and the removal of timber
- camelhair — the hair of the camel or dromedary, used in clothing, rugs, etc
- campshirt — a loose, short-sleeved shirt or blouse with an open collar
- care home — A care home is a large house or institution where people with particular problems or special needs are looked after.
- carthamin — (organic compound) A red colouring matter obtained from the safflower, Carthamus tinctorius.
- cauchemar — a nightmare
- chambered — having a chamber inside it in which the body of an important person was laid to rest
- chamberer — someone who attends to a bed chamber; chambermaid or chamberlain
- chamberys — a city in and the capital of Savoie, in SE France.
- chamfered — a cut that is made in wood or some other material, usually at a 45° angle to the adjacent principal faces. Compare bevel.
- chamfrons — Plural form of chamfron.
- champerty — (formerly) an illegal bargain between a party to litigation and an outsider whereby the latter agrees to pay for the action and thereby share in any proceeds recovered
- charismas — Plural form of charisma.
- charmante — Silk fabric with a crepe back.
- charmeuse — a lightweight fabric with a satin-like finish
- charminar — a 16th-century monument with four minarets at Hyderabad, India
- charmings — Plural form of charming.
- charmless — If you say that something or someone is charmless, you mean that they are unattractive or uninteresting.
- charwoman — A charwoman is a woman who is employed to clean houses or offices.
- charwomen — Plural form of charwoman.
- 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.
- checkmark — a tick
- checkroom — a place at a railway station, airport, etc, where luggage may be left for a small charge with an attendant for safekeeping
- cheliform — shaped like a chela; pincer-like
- chemisorb — to take up (a substance) by chemisorption
- chemistry — Chemistry is the scientific study of the structure of substances and of the way that they react with other substances.
- chemtrail — A contrail consisting of chemicals or biological agents deliberately sprayed at high altitudes, according to certain conspiracy theories.
- cheremiss — a member of an Ugrian people of the Volga region, esp of the Mari El Republic
- 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
- chernozem — a black soil, rich in humus and carbonates, in cool or temperate semiarid regions, as the grasslands of Russia
- chimaeras — Plural form of chimaera.
- chimaeric — (of a molecule) having two genetically different components
- chimerism — a medical condition in which a person develops from two distinct embryos that could possess two genetically distinct sets of cells
- chipmaker — a manufacturer of electronic chips.
- chirimoya — cherimoya.
- chironomy — the craft or artistry of moving the hands by following a standard or formula in relation to theatrical, oratory, or musical performance
- chondroma — a benign cartilaginous growth or neoplasm
- chop mark — a notch or other mark made in a coin to indicate verification of its authenticity, especially by a banker or merchant in the Far East during the 18th or 19th centuries.
- choriambs — Plural form of choriamb.
- christmas — Christmas is a Christian festival when the birth of Jesus Christ is celebrated. Christmas is celebrated on the 25th of December.
- chromagen — (biochemistry) Any compound, such as heme, that forms a biological pigment when attached to a protein.
- chromakey — (in colour television) a special effect in which a coloured background can be eliminated and a different background substituted
- chromates — Plural form of chromate.
- 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
- chromato- — indicating colour or coloured
- chromidia — chromatins in cell cytoplasm