9-letter words containing n, i, h, c, l
- cholerine — (pathology) Minor diarrhea that happens during outbreaks of cholera.
- chortling — to chuckle gleefully.
- chronical — relating to or controlled by time
- chronicle — To chronicle a series of events means to write about them or show them in broadcasts in the order in which they happened.
- chuckling — Present participle of chuckle.
- churnmilk — buttermilk
- cinephile — a person who loves films and cinema
- clenching — Present participle of clench.
- clianthus — any Australian or New Zealand plant of the leguminous genus Clianthus, with ornamental clusters of slender scarlet flowers
- cliffhang — (of a serial or film) to end on a note of suspense
- clinchers — Plural form of clincher.
- clinching — Present participle of clinch.
- clingfish — any small marine teleost fish of the family Gobiesocidae, having a flattened elongated body with a sucking disc beneath the head for clinging to rocks, etc
- clothings — Plural form of clothing.
- clownfish — any of several brightly coloured striped fish of the subfamily Amphiprioninae of the Pacific and Indian Oceans
- clutching — to hatch (chickens).
- coachline — a decorative line on the bodywork of a motor vehicle
- cochineal — Cochineal is a red substance that is used for colouring food.
- cuchulain — a legendary hero of Ulster
- cynophile — A person who loves canines; a dog lover.
- diachylon — a type of adhesive plaster, formerly made of various plant juices, but later containing lead oxide and glycerin
- duncishly — in a dullard-like manner
- echoingly — In an echoing way.
- elenchtic — Alternative form of elenctic.
- enchilada — A rolled tortilla with a filling typically of meat and served with a chili sauce.
- enchorial — Indigenous, native.
- ethylenic — (organic chemistry) Containing ethylene or an ethylene derivative.
- falchions — Plural form of falchion.
- flenching — Present participle of flench.
- fletching — the feathers on an arrow, which stabilize it during flight.
- flinching — Present participle of flinch.
- glitching — Present participle of glitch.
- goldfinch — a European finch, Carduelis carduelis, having a crimson face and wings marked with yellow.
- halcyonic — calm; peaceful; tranquil: halcyon weather.
- half-inch — a half of an inch, equal to 1/24 of a foot (1.27 centimeters).
- halocline — a well-defined vertical salinity gradient in ocean or other saline water.
- 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.
- helicline — a curved ramp.
- heliconia — any of a genus of tropical flowering plants with long flowering panicles
- holandric — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in males (opposed to hologynic).
- holocrine — (of a gland) releasing a secretion that is a product of disintegrating cells.
- hologynic — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in females (opposed to holandric).
- homunculi — an artificially made dwarf, supposedly produced in a flask by an alchemist.
- ichnology — the branch of paleontology concerned with the study of fossilized tracks, trails, burrows, borings, or other trace fossils as evidence of the occurrence or behavior of the organisms that produced them.
- inclineth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incline.
- knaidlach — a dumpling, especially a small ball of matzo meal, eggs, and salt, often mixed with another foodstuff, as ground almonds or grated potato, usually served in soup.
- launching — Present participle of launch.
- lechering — a man given to excessive sexual indulgence; a lascivious or licentious man.
- lichenism — the symbiotic association between a fungus and alga that forms a lichen