9-letter words containing l, i, t, h, c
- chortling — to chuckle gleefully.
- city hall — The city hall is the building which a city council uses as its main offices.
- cleithral — (of Greek temples) covered with a roof
- clianthus — any Australian or New Zealand plant of the leguminous genus Clianthus, with ornamental clusters of slender scarlet flowers
- clipsheet — a sheet of paper with text printed on one side only
- clothiers — Plural form of clothier.
- clothings — Plural form of clothing.
- clutching — to hatch (chickens).
- coccolith — any of the round calcareous plates in chalk formations: formed the outer layer of unicellular plankton
- coltishly — In a coltish manner.
- coprolith — a hard stony mass of dried faeces in the intestine that is caused by chronic constipation
- cultishly — In a cultish manner.
- cyclolith — a stone circle
- cystolith — a knoblike deposit of calcium carbonate in the epidermal cells of such plants as the stinging nettle
- dirichlet — Peter Gustav Lejeune [pey-tuh r goo s-tahf luh-zhœn] /ˈpeɪ tər ˈgʊs tɑf ləˈʒœn/ (Show IPA), 1805–59, German mathematician.
- dishcloth — a cloth for use in washing dishes; dishrag.
- dishclout — a cloth for use in washing dishes; dishrag.
- elenchtic — Alternative form of elenctic.
- epilithic — (of plants) growing on the surface of rock
- epithecal — (microbiology, planktology) Of or pertaining to the epitheca, the upper half of the shell of certain types of plankton.
- etherical — relating to ether
- ethically — In an ethical manner.
- ethicless — Without ethics.
- ethylenic — (organic chemistry) Containing ethylene or an ethylene derivative.
- fletching — the feathers on an arrow, which stabilize it during flight.
- flipchart — A flipchart is a stand with large sheets of paper which is used when presenting information at a meeting.
- gemutlich — comfortable and pleasant; cozy.
- gilchrist — Adam (Craig). born 1971, Australian cricketer; a wicketkeeper-batsman, he took an Australian-record 416 dismissals in tests (1999–2008) and a world-record 472 dismissals in ODIs (1996–2008); his 33 international centuries is a record for a wicketkeeper
- glitching — Present participle of glitch.
- haircloth — cloth of hair from the manes and tails of horses, woven with a cotton warp, and used for interlinings of clothes, upholstery, etc.
- halachist — one of the writers or compilers of the Halakhah.
- halieutic — Of or pertaining to fishing.
- 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.
- hatchling — a young bird, reptile, or fish recently emerged from an egg.
- helictite — A speleothem found in limestone caves that changes its axis from the vertical at one or more stages during its growth.
- helvetica — (text) One of the most widely used sans-serif typefaces, developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger with Eduard Hoffmann. Originally called Neue Haas Grotesk, it was renamed Helvetica for the international market. Helvetica is very similar to the common Arial typeface. The name is Latin for Swiss.
- hemolytic — the breaking down of red blood cells with liberation of hemoglobin.
- heretical — of, relating to, or characteristic of heretics or heresy.
- hillcrest — The crest of a hill.
- 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.
- horotelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate standard for a given group of plants or animals.
- inclineth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incline.
- jacklight — a portable cresset, oil-burning lantern, or electric light used as a lure in hunting or fishing at night.
- 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.
- lethargic — of, relating to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish; apathetic.