9-letter words containing o, n, h
- bony fish — any fish of the class Osteichthyes, including most of the extant species, having a skeleton of bone rather than cartilage
- boohooing — to weep noisily; blubber.
- bothering — to give trouble to; annoy; pester; worry: His baby sister bothered him for candy.
- bountyhed — the quality of being bounteous
- bowhunter — a person who hunts with a bow
- box lunch — A box lunch is food, for example sandwiches, which you take to work, to school, or on a trip and eat as your lunch.
- branchio- — gills
- bronchial — Bronchial means affecting or concerned with the bronchial tubes.
- bronchium — a medium-sized bronchial tube
- brood hen — a hen kept for breeding
- brythonic — the S group of Celtic languages, consisting of Welsh, Cornish, and Breton
- buckhound — a hound, smaller than a staghound, used for hunting the smaller breeds of deer, esp fallow deer
- buckthorn — any of several thorny small-flowered shrubs of the genus Rhamnus, esp the Eurasian species R. cathartica, whose berries were formerly used as a purgative: family Rhamnaceae
- buhrstone — a hard tough rock containing silica, fossils, and cavities, formerly used as a grindstone
- bung-hole — a hole in a cask through which it is filled.
- bunkhouse — (in the US and Canada) a building containing the sleeping quarters of workers on a ranch
- bunny hop — a jump executed with the feet held tightly together and the knees bent
- bushwoman — a woman who lives in the bush
- c horizon — the layer of a soil profile immediately below the B horizon and above the bedrock, composed of weathered rock little affected by soil-forming processes
- cabochons — Plural form of cabochon.
- cacholong — a type of opal, commonly of a milky colour
- cacophony — You can describe a loud, unpleasant mixture of sounds as a cacophony.
- canephora — Caryatid that supports a basket on her head.
- canonchet — (Nanuntenoo) died 1676, Narragansett leader: executed by colonists.
- canonship — the position or office of canon; canonry.
- cant hook — a heavy wooden lever with a blunt tip and a hinged hook near the end: used by lumbermen in handling logs
- cape horn — a rocky headland on an island at the extreme S tip of South America, belonging to Chile. It is notorious for gales and heavy seas; until the building of the Panama Canal it lay on the only sea route between the Atlantic and the Pacific
- car phone — A car phone is a mobile phone, especially one which is designed to be used in a car.
- cardphone — a public telephone operated by the insertion of a phonecard instead of coins
- cashpoint — A cashpoint is the same as a cash dispenser.
- cathinone — (organic compound) The aromatic amine 2-amino-1-phenyl-1-propanone that is the active ingredient of khat.
- ceanothus — any shrub of the North American rhamnaceous genus Ceanothus: grown for their ornamental, often blue, flower clusters
- cellphone — A cellphone is the same as a cellular phone.
- cenotaphs — Plural form of cenotaph.
- chaconine — a toxic alkaloid substance found in potatoes
- chaconnes — Plural form of chaconne.
- chaeronea — an ancient Greek town in W Boeotia: site of the victory of Philip of Macedon over the Athenians and Thebans (338 bc) and of Sulla over Mithridates (86 bc)
- chainwork — any work linked or looped in the manner of or resembling a chain or chains
- chalazion — a small cyst on the eyelid resulting from chronic inflammation of a meibomian gland
- chalcedon — ancient Greek city on the Bosporus, opposite Byzantium: site of the 4th ecumenical council, a.d. 451
- chalcogen — any of the elements oxygen, sulphur, selenium, tellurium, or polonium, of group 6A of the periodic table
- chameleon — A chameleon is a kind of lizard whose skin changes colour to match the colour of its surroundings.
- chamfrons — Plural form of chamfron.
- champions — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of champion.
- chance on — to come upon by accident
- chancroid — a soft venereal ulcer, esp of the male genitals, caused by infection with the bacillus Haemophilus ducreyi
- chancrous — (medicine) Of the nature of a chancre; affected by chancre.
- changchou — Changzhou
- changchow — a city in S Fujian province, in SE China.
- changelog — (computing) A log that records changes between versions, as in source control.