9-letter words containing r, h, o, e
- 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
- chronicle — To chronicle a series of events means to write about them or show them in broadcasts in the order in which they happened.
- cithaeron — a mountain range in SE Greece: sacred to Dionysus, in Greek mythology. to 4623 feet (1409 meters).
- clothiers — Plural form of clothier.
- cockhorse — rocking horse
- 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.
- copperish — resembling copper
- corfhouse — a shed used for curing salmon and storing nets
- cornhouse — a corncrib.
- corniches — Plural form of corniche.
- coryphene — either of two large marine percoid fishes, Coryphaena hippurus or C. equisetis, that resemble the cetacean dolphins and have an iridescent coloration
- coshering — Present participle of cosher.
- cosphered — sharing the same sphere
- cothamore — a frieze fabric, often used in the manufacture of overcoats.
- cow horse — cow pony.
- cristophe — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), ("Henri I"I) 1767–1820, Haitian revolutionary general, born in Grenada: king 1811–20.
- crocheted — made with a crochet hook
- crocheter — needlework done with a needle having a small hook at one end for drawing the thread or yarn through intertwined loops.
- cromlechs — Plural form of cromlech.
- crossed-h — a constant used in quantum mechanics, equal to the Planck constant divided by 2π. It has a value of 1.054571596±0.000000078 × 10 −34 joule seconds
- crosshead — a subsection or paragraph heading printed within the body of the text
- crotchets — Plural form of crotchet.
- crotchety — A crotchety person is bad-tempered and easily irritated.
- cryolathe — an instrument for reshaping the cornea to correct severe nearsightedness or farsightedness: the cornea is removed from the eye, rapidly frozen, reshaped, and reinserted.
- cryophile — (biology) An organism that thrives at low temperatures.
- cryophyte — an organism, esp an alga or moss, that grows on snow or ice
- cupholder — a competitor who has won or successfully defended a specific cup, trophy, championship, etc.; champion.
- cybergoth — (uncountable) A subculture combining elements of goth and rave culture, typically involving energetic electronic music and brightly coloured, futuristic clothing.
- cybershop — Purchase or shop for goods and services on a website.
- darkhorse — Having the character of a dark horse.
- dear john — a letter from a woman informing her boyfriend or fiancé that she is ending their relationship or informing her husband that she wants a divorce: Nothing is worse for a soldier's morale than getting a Dear John.
- death row — If someone is on death row, they are in the part of a prison which contains the cells for criminals who have been sentenced to death.
- decachord — a ten-stringed musical instrument
- decoherer — a device that re-establishes a coherer to usual levels of receptiveness
- deerhound — a very large rough-coated breed of dog of the greyhound type
- dehorning — Present participle of dehorn.
- delaroche — (Hippolyte) Paul. 1797–1859, French painter of portraits and sentimental historical scenes, such as The Children of Edward IV in the Tower (1830)
- dethroned — Simple past tense and past participle of dethrone.
- dethroner — One who dethrones.
- dethrones — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dethrone.
- devoureth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'devour'.
- dhrystone — (benchmark) A short synthetic benchmark program by Reinhold Weicker <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, intended to be representative of system (integer) programming. It is available in ADA, Pascal and C. The current version is Dhrystone 2.1. The author says, "Relying on MIPS V1.1 (the result of V1.1) numbers can be hazardous to your professional health." Due to its small size, the memory system outside the cache is not tested. Compilers can too easily optimise for Dhrystone. String operations are somewhat over-represented.
- diarrhoea — If someone has diarrhoea, a lot of liquid faeces comes out of their body because they are ill.
- dichroite — cordierite.