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9-letter words containing i, c, h, o, r

  • hypocrisy — a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.
  • 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.
  • hyporheic — Denoting an area or ecosystem beneath the bed of a river or stream that is saturated with water and that supports invertebrate fauna which play a role in the larger ecosystem.
  • hypotrich — any ciliate of the suborder Hypotricha, having cilia chiefly on the ventral surface.
  • in chorus — Music. a group of persons singing in unison. (in an opera, oratorio, etc.) such a group singing choral parts in connection with soloists or individual singers. a piece of music for singing in unison. a part of a song that recurs at intervals, usually following each verse; refrain.
  • inchworms — Plural form of inchworm.
  • isochoric — Physics.. Also, isochor. Also called isometric, isometric line. for a given substance, a curve graphing temperature against pressure, when the volume of the substance is held constant.
  • isochrone — a line, as on a map, connecting all points having some property simultaneously, as in having the same delay in receiving a radio signal from a given source or requiring the same time to be reached by available transportation from a given center.
  • isochrony — the fact or state of occurrence at the same time; contemporaneity.
  • isohydric — having the same acidity or hydrogen-ion concentration
  • kirchhoff — Gustav Robert [goo s-tahf roh-bert] /ˈgʊs tɑf ˈroʊ bɛrt/ (Show IPA), 1824–87, German physicist.
  • lochinvar — the hero of a ballad included in the narrative poem Marmion (1808) by Sir Walter Scott.
  • macrolith — a stone tool about 1 foot (30 cm) long.
  • microchip — chip1 (def 5).
  • microinch — a unit of length equal to one millionth of an inch. Symbol: μin.
  • 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.
  • micromesh — a very fine mesh
  • microthin — extremely or, sometimes, microscopically thin: a microthin layer of aluminum.
  • monarchic — of, like, or pertaining to a monarch or monarchy.
  • monorchid — having or appearing to have only one testis.
  • morphemic — any of the minimal grammatical units of a language, each constituting a word or meaningful part of a word, that cannot be divided into smaller independent grammatical parts, as the, write, or the -ed of waited. Compare allomorph (def 2), morph (def 1).
  • morphinic — of, pertaining to, or resembling morphine
  • morphotic — (biology) Connected with, or becoming an integral part of, a living unit or of the morphological framework.
  • murchison — an intermittent river in W Australia, flowing SW to the Indian Ocean. 440 miles (708 km) long.
  • necrophil — person who is sexually attracted to dead bodies
  • nephrotic — Pertaining to, resembling or caused by nephrosis.
  • neurochip — a semiconductor chip designed for use in an electronic neural network
  • nictheroy — Niterói.
  • nonheroic — Not heroic.
  • nonrhotic — denoting or speaking a dialect of English in which preconsonantal rs are not pronounced
  • northwich — a town in NW England, in Cheshire: salt and chemical industries. Pop: 39 568 (2001)
  • ocho rios — a seaport in N Jamaica: resort.
  • oligarchs — Plural form of oligarch.
  • oligarchy — a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few.
  • orchestic — relating to dance
  • orchidist — an orchid grower
  • orichalch — Alternative form of orichalcum.
  • orthoepic — Of or pertaining to orthoepy.
  • orthoptic — pertaining to or producing normal binocular vision.
  • orthotics — Also, orthosis. a device or support, especially for the foot, used to relieve or correct an orthopedic problem.
  • ostriches — Plural form of ostrich.
  • overchill — to make too cold
  • overpitch — to bowl (a ball) so that it pitches too close to the stumps
  • overthick — too thick
  • parochial — of, relating to, or financially supported by one or more church parishes: parochial churches in Great Britain.
  • pedorthic — (of footwear) designed to alleviate problems with feet, lower limbs, posture, etc
  • petrichor — a distinctive scent, usually described as earthy, pleasant, or sweet, produced by rainfall on very dry ground.
  • pharaonic — (sometimes lowercase) of or like a Pharaoh: living in Pharaonic splendor.
  • pitch for — If someone is pitching for something, they are trying to persuade other people to give it to them.
  • pitchfork — a large, long-handled fork for manually lifting and pitching hay, stalks of grain, etc.
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