9-letter words containing p, a, c, h
- cheapside — street and district of London; in the Middle Ages it was a marketplace
- chempaduk — an evergreen moraceous tree, Artocarpus champeden (or A. integer), of Malaysia, similar to the jackfruit
- chick-pea — Also called garbanzo. a widely cultivated plant, Cicer arietinum, of the legume family, bearing pods containing pealike seeds.
- chickpeas — Plural form of chickpea.
- chinampas — Plural form of chinampa.
- chincapin — chinquapin
- chinkapin — chinquapin
- chinstrap — a strap that goes under the chin
- chipboard — Chipboard is a hard material made out of very small pieces of wood which have been pressed together. It is often used for making doors and furniture.
- chipewyan — a member of a North American Indian people of NW Canada
- chipheads — Plural form of chiphead.
- chipmaker — a manufacturer of electronic chips.
- chipolata — a small sausage in a narrow casing
- chippable — having the ability to be reduced to small pieces
- chippeway — Chippewa.
- chokedamp — blackdamp
- chop mark — a notch or other mark made in a coin to indicate verification of its authenticity, especially by a banker or merchant in the Far East during the 18th or 19th centuries.
- chopsteak — chopped steak.
- classpath — (programming) an argument that tells the Java virtual machine where to look for user-defined classes and packages when running Java programs.
- cloth cap — A cloth cap is a soft flat cap with a stiff, curved part at the front called a peak. Cloth caps are usually worn by men.
- cloth-cap — pertaining to or characteristic of the working class.
- coachwhip — a coachwhip snake
- cockahoop — Alternative form of cock-a-hoop.
- coliphage — a bacteriophage
- crampfish — a ray of the order Torpediniformes with electric organs on either side of its head
- crapshoot — If you describe something as a crapshoot, you mean that what happens depends entirely on luck or chance.
- crash pad — a place to live or sleep temporarily
- crisphead — a variety of lettuce with a dense cabbage-like head and mild crunchy leaves
- cup shake — wind shake.
- cyclepath — a special path for the exclusive use of cyclists
- cymograph — an instrument for tracing the outline of an architectural moulding
- cymophane — a yellow or green opalescent variety of chrysoberyl
- cytopathy — a disease or disorder of a cell
- cytophagy — the ingestion of cells by other cells.
- death cap — a poisonous woodland saprotrophic basidiomycetous fungus, Amanita phalloides, differing from the edible mushroom (Agaricus) only in its white gills (pinkish-brown in Agaricus) and the presence of a volva
- death cup — a poisonous mushroom of the genus Amanita.
- dec alpha — (processor) A RISC microprocessor from DEC. In November 1995, the Alpha was purportedly the fastest non-research chip used in commonly available workstations. It is superpipelined and superscalar. In February 1996 it was clocked at 200 MHz and in March 1998 at 666 MHz.
- deschamps — Émile (French emil), full name Émile Deschamps de Saint-Armand. 1791–1871, French poet, dramatist, and librettist: a leading figure in the French romantic movement
- diaphonic — Of or pertaining to diaphony.
- digraphic — Of or pertaining to a digraph.
- dog-cheap — very inexpensive.
- drop arch — a pointed arch having radii of length less than the span.
- dutch cap — a woman's lace cap with triangular flaps, characteristic of Dutch national dress
- dutch lap — a method of laying shingles, slates, or the like, in which each shingle or slate overlaps those below and to one side and is itself overlapped by those above and to the other side.
- dysphagic — difficulty in swallowing.
- dysphasic — inability to speak or understand words because of a brain lesion.
- echograph — a device that records oceanic depths by means of sonic waves.
- ecophobia — Fear of one\u2019s home.
- emphatics — Plural form of emphatic.
- encephala — Plural form of encephalon.