9-letter words containing h, y
- buckishly — in a buckish manner
- bullishly — in a bullish manner
- bunny hop — a jump executed with the feet held tightly together and the knees bent
- bunny hug — a ballroom dance with syncopated rhythm, popular in America in the early 20th century
- bush baby — any of a family (Galagidae) of nocturnal prosimian primates of tropical African forests, with a long, bushy tail and large eyes
- butcherly — of or resembling a butcher
- by a hair — by a very slight margin, only just
- by a head — by the length of the animal's head, as in horse racing
- by chance — Something that happens by chance was not planned by anyone.
- by choice — willingly, of one's free will
- by halves — without being thorough or exhaustive
- by inches — a unit of length, 1/12 (0.0833) foot, equivalent to 2.54 centimeters.
- by rights — If something is not the case but you think that it should be, you can say that by rights it should be the case.
- by the by — incidentally
- by weight — as determined by weighing
- byam shaw — Glen Alexander. 1904–81, British actor and theatre director; director of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (1953–59)
- cacophony — You can describe a loud, unpleasant mixture of sounds as a cacophony.
- caddishly — in a caddish manner
- cataphyll — a simplified form of plant leaf, such as a scale leaf or cotyledon
- cattishly — In a cattish manner.
- 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)
- ch'u yuan — 343–289 b.c, Chinese poet: author of the Li-sao.
- chairdays — old age, or the point in life when resting in a chair is the most comfortable way of passing time
- chairlady — chairwoman.
- chalybean — of or relating to the Chalybes, an ancient tribe of central Asia noted for their skill with iron and steel
- chalybite — siderite (def 1).
- chamberys — a city in and the capital of Savoie, in SE France.
- champerty — (formerly) an illegal bargain between a party to litigation and an outsider whereby the latter agrees to pay for the action and thereby share in any proceeds recovered
- chandlery — the business, warehouse, or merchandise of a chandler
- chantilly — a town in N France, near the Forest of Chantilly formerly famous for lace and porcelain. Pop: 10 902 (1999)
- charcoaly — resembling charcoal
- charybdis — a ship-devouring monster in classical mythology, identified with a whirlpool off the north coast of Sicily, lying opposite Scylla on the Italian coast
- chatoyant — having changeable lustre; twinkling
- chayefsky — Paddy [pad-ee] /ˈpæd i/ (Show IPA), 1923–1981, U.S. playwright and director.
- cheat day — a day in which a person goes off a dietary regimen: Today’s my cheat day, so I’m eating pizza and ice cream.
- chemistry — Chemistry is the scientific study of the structure of substances and of the way that they react with other substances.
- chemitype — an obsolete chemical process by which a relief impression was obtained from an engraving or etching
- chemitypy — the process of chemitype
- cherimoya — a deciduous shrub or small tree, native to the Andean highlands, which produces an oval fruit with cream-coloured flesh
- cherkassy — city & port in central Ukraine, on the Dnepr River: pop. 302,000
- chernobyl — a town in N Ukraine; site of a nuclear power station accident in 1986
- cherylene — a female given name.
- chicanery — Chicanery is using cleverness to cheat people.
- chidingly — In a chiding manner.
- chimneyed — Containing chimneys, or a particular type or number of chimney.
- chipewyan — a member of a North American Indian people of NW Canada
- chippeway — Chippewa.
- chirality — the configuration or handedness (left or right) of an asymmetric, optically active chemical compound
- chirimoya — cherimoya.
- chirology — Palm reading.