9-letter words containing s, h, e, c
- caithness — (until 1975) a county of NE Scotland, now part of Highland
- cake shop — a shop that sells cakes
- cakeholes — Plural form of cakehole.
- car chase — when one car is in quick pursuit of another
- carothers — Wallace Hume1896-1937; U.S. chemist
- carthorse — A carthorse is a large, powerful horse that is used to pull carts or farm machinery.
- case shot — a quantity of small projectiles enclosed in a single case, as a shrapnel shell, for firing from a gun
- cash desk — A cash desk is a place in a large shop where you pay for the things you want to buy.
- cash sale — a transaction that specifies that securities must be delivered to the buyer on the day that the purchase is made
- cashed up — having plenty of money
- cashiered — to dismiss (a military officer) from service, especially with disgrace.
- cashierer — a person who rejects or dismisses from office
- catchiest — Superlative form of catchy.
- catechise — to instruct orally by means of questions and answers, especially in Christian doctrine.
- catechism — In a Catholic, Episcopal, or Orthodox Church, the catechism is a series of questions and answers about religious beliefs, which has to be learned by people before they can become full members of that Church.
- catechist — a person who catechizes, esp. one who instructs catechumens
- catfished — Simple past tense and past participle of catfish.
- catfishes — Plural form of catfish.
- catharise — purify
- catharses — Plural form of catharsis.
- cathepsin — a proteolytic enzyme responsible for the autolysis of cells after death
- catheters — Plural form of catheter.
- cathouses — Plural form of cathouse.
- cavendish — tobacco that has been sweetened and pressed into moulds to form bars
- ceanothus — any shrub of the North American rhamnaceous genus Ceanothus: grown for their ornamental, often blue, flower clusters
- cellhouse — a prison building containing separate cells, each usually intended for one or two prisoners.
- cenotaphs — Plural form of cenotaph.
- cephalins — Plural form of cephalin.
- cephalous — having a head
- cetshwayo — ?1826–84, king of the Zulus (1873–79): defeated the British at Isandhlwana (1879) but was overwhelmed by them at Ulundi (1879); captured, he stated his case in London, and was reinstated as ruler of part of Zululand (1883)
- chabasite — Alternative form of chabazite.
- chaconnes — Plural form of chaconne.
- chainless — having no chain or chains
- chairside — Relating to activities that happen next to the dental chair during treatment.
- chamberys — a city in and the capital of Savoie, in SE France.
- chamosite — a mineral of the chlorite group, hydrous aluminum silicate of iron, occurring in gray or black crystals in oolitic iron ore.
- chanciest — Superlative form of chancy.
- chandlers — Plural form of chandler.
- changeups — Plural form of changeup.
- chanteuse — a female singer, esp in a nightclub or cabaret
- chantress — a female chanter or singer
- chantries — Plural form of chantry.
- chaperons — Plural form of chaperon.
- chapiters — Plural form of chapiter.
- chargeous — (obsolete) burdensome.
- chariness — the state of being chary
- charities — Plural form of charity.
- charles i — title as Holy Roman Emperor of Charlemagne
- charles v — known as Charles the Wise. 1337–80, king of France (1364–80) during the Hundred Years' War
- charles x — title of Charles Gustavus. 1622–60, king of Sweden, who warred with Poland and Denmark in an attempt to create a unified Baltic state