9-letter words containing o, r, c, h
- chordless — Lacking chords.
- chordwise — in the direction of an aerofoil chord
- choreatic — any of several diseases of the nervous system characterized by jerky, involuntary movements, chiefly of the face and extremities.
- choreutic — of or belonging to a chorus.
- choriambs — Plural form of choriamb.
- chorionic — Of or pertaining to the chorion.
- chorister — A chorister is a singer in a church choir.
- chorizont — a person who challenges the authorship of a work
- choroidal — relating to the choroid
- chorology — the study of the causal relations between geographical phenomena occurring within a particular region
- chortling — to chuckle gleefully.
- chorusing — Present participle of chorus.
- chorussed — Simple past tense and past participle of chorus.
- chowkidar — (in India) a watchman or gatekeeper.
- christoff — Boris. 1919–93, Bulgarian bass-baritone, noted esp for his performance in the title role of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov
- chromagen — (biochemistry) Any compound, such as heme, that forms a biological pigment when attached to a protein.
- chromakey — (in colour television) a special effect in which a coloured background can be eliminated and a different background substituted
- chromates — Plural form of chromate.
- chromatic — In music, chromatic means related to the scale that consists only of semitones.
- chromatid — either of the two strands into which a chromosome divides during mitosis. They separate to form daughter chromosomes at anaphase
- chromatin — the part of the nucleus that consists of DNA and proteins, forms the chromosomes, and stains with basic dyes
- chromato- — indicating colour or coloured
- chromidia — chromatins in cell cytoplasm
- chromogen — a compound that forms coloured compounds on oxidation
- chronaxie — the minimum time required for excitation of a nerve or muscle when the stimulus is double the minimum (threshold) necessary to elicit a basic response
- 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.
- chrononym — (semiotics) A term for a specific period of time, such as
- churn out — To churn out something means to produce large quantities of it very quickly.
- churrasco — meat cooked over an open fire.
- cirrhosis — Cirrhosis or cirrhosis of the liver is a disease which destroys a person's liver and which can kill them. It is often caused by drinking too much alcohol.
- cirrhotic — a disease of the liver characterized by increase of connective tissue and alteration in gross and microscopic makeup.
- cithaeron — a mountain range in SE Greece: sacred to Dionysus, in Greek mythology. to 4623 feet (1409 meters).
- clothiers — Plural form of clothier.
- clothyard — (historical) An old unit of measure for cloth, 36 or 37 inches.
- co durham — County Durham
- co-anchor — one of the usually two anchors for a radio or TV newscast
- co-author — The co-authors of a book, play, or report are the people who have written it together.
- coachwork — the design and manufacture of car bodies
- coauthors — Plural form of coauthor.
- cockhorse — rocking horse
- cockroach — A cockroach is a large brown insect that is sometimes found in warm places or where food is kept.
- codeshare — (aviation) Agreement whereby an airline buys space on another airline and markets the extra space as its own. Often used to increase a route network without the costs of running a full service.
- cohabiter — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- coheiress — a female coheir
- coherence — Coherence is a state or situation in which all the parts or ideas fit together well so that they form a united whole.
- coherency — the act or state of cohering; cohesion.
- coheritor — a coheir
- coinherit — To inherit together with other or others; to be one of the inheritors.
- colcothar — a finely powdered form of ferric oxide produced by heating ferric sulphate and used as a pigment and as jewellers' rouge