9-Letter Words Starting C & Ending H

• small European finch with a cheerful song

• any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests

• scientific instrument consisting of a rotating drum holding paper on which a stylus traces a continuous record (as of breathing or blood pressure)

• any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges

• A viny plant, Citrullus colocynthis, native to the Mediterranean Basin and Asia. It produces a lemon-sized, yellowish, green-mottled, spongy, and extremely bitter fruit.

• The powdered pulp of this fruit, a powerful hepatic stimulant and hydragogue cathartic used as a strong laxative.

• A commander of a thousand troops in Hellenistic Greece.

• British chemist and physicist who established that water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen and who calculated the density of the earth (1731-1810)

• very small (to 3 inches) flattened marine fish with a sucking disc on the abdomen for clinging to rocks etc.

• A microscopic skeletal plate of calcite on the surface of certain marine phytoplankton; it forms chalk and limestone when fossilized

• The mineral diopside.