9-letter words containing n, a, c, h, o
- coinhabit — To inhabit together.
- conchobar — (in Irish legend) a king of Ulster at about the beginning of the Christian era
- connaught — Connacht
- cornbrash — a type of limestone which produces good soil for growing corn
- coronachs — Plural form of coronach.
- cothurnal — relating to the cothurnus or to tragedy
- cymophane — a yellow or green opalescent variety of chrysoberyl
- decathlon — The decathlon is a competition in which athletes compete in 10 different sporting events.
- diachrony — a change over time, esp in languages
- diachylon — a type of adhesive plaster, formerly made of various plant juices, but later containing lead oxide and glycerin
- diaphonic — Of or pertaining to diaphony.
- dichondra — any of a genus of creeping perennial herbs of the Convolvulaceae family, with white, pale yellow, or green flowers
- disanchor — to raise the anchor of (a ship)
- dockhands — Plural form of dockhand.
- encheason — a reason
- enchorial — Indigenous, native.
- eulachons — Plural form of eulachon.
- falchions — Plural form of falchion.
- foodchain — Alternative spelling of food chain.
- gnathonic — sycophantic; fawning.
- goncharov — Ivan Alexandrovich [ih-vahn al-ig-zan-druh-vich,, -zahn-,, ahy-vuh n;; Russian ee-vahn uh-lyi-ksahn-druh-vyich] /ɪˈvɑn ˌæl ɪgˈzæn drə vɪtʃ,, -ˈzɑn-,, ˈaɪ vən;; Russian iˈvɑn ʌ lyɪˈksɑn drə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1812–91, Russian novelist.
- gonotheca — the part of the perisarc covering a gonangium.
- hacendado — the owner of a hacienda.
- hachinohe — a city in N Honshu, Japan.
- hackathon — a usually competitive event in which people work in groups on software or hardware projects, with the goal of creating a functioning product by the end of the event: At the hackathon our team produced an app that helps you monitor your sleeping habits.
- hacqueton — an upholstered garment for the upper body worn under chain mail or such a garment covered with chain mail
- halcyonic — calm; peaceful; tranquil: halcyon weather.
- halocline — a well-defined vertical salinity gradient in ocean or other saline water.
- halomancy — Divination by use of salt. This is the origin for the superstition of spilled salt.
- 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.
- harmonica — Also called mouth organ. a musical wind instrument consisting of a small rectangular case containing a set of metal reeds connected to a row of holes, over which the player places the mouth and exhales and inhales to produce the tones.
- harmonics — Music. overtone (def 1).
- haycation — A vacation stay on a farm, in which guests often help out with daily farm tasks.
- headcanon — (fandom slang) Elements and interpretations of a fictional universe accepted by an individual fan, but not found within or supported by the official canon.
- headcount — The act of counting how many people are present in a group.
- heliconia — any of a genus of tropical flowering plants with long flowering panicles
- hoatching — infested; swarming
- holandric — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in males (opposed to hologynic).
- honeycake — A cake made with honey, especially as a Rosh Hashanah tradition.
- hoolachan — a Highland reel
- hopatcong — a town in N New Jersey.
- hornwrack — a yellowish bryozoan or sea mat sometimes found on beaches after a storm
- hurricano — (obsolete) A waterspout; a hurricane.
- hynagogic — Misspelling of hypnagogic.
- hypomanic — Afflicted with a mild state of mania.
- indochina — a peninsula in SE Asia, between the Bay of Bengal and the South China Sea, comprising Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, W Malaysia, and Burma (Myanmar).
- kalanchoe — any of several chiefly African and Asian succulent plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Kalanchoe, of the stonecrop family, having mostly opposite leaves and branching clusters of flowers.
- kuangchou — Wade-Giles. Canton.
- kwangchow — Older Spelling. Canton.
- lochinvar — the hero of a ballad included in the narrative poem Marmion (1808) by Sir Walter Scott.