9-letter words containing a, c, e
- chasseurs — Plural form of chasseur.
- chastened — subdued; humbled
- chastener — to inflict suffering upon for purposes of moral improvement; chastise.
- chastised — to discipline, especially by corporal punishment.
- chastiser — Someone who chastises.
- chastises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chastise.
- chastized — Simple past tense and past participle of chastize.
- chasubles — Plural form of chasuble.
- chatelain — the keeper or governor of a castle
- chatlines — Plural form of chatline.
- chattered — to talk rapidly in a foolish or purposeless way; jabber.
- chatterer — A chatterer is the same as a chatterbox.
- chatterji — Bankim Chandra [buhng-kim chuhn-druh] /ˈbʌŋ kɪm ˈtʃʌn drə/ (Show IPA), 1838–94, Indian novelist in the Bengali language.
- chattiest — Superlative form of chatty.
- chauffeur — The chauffeur of a rich or important person is the man or woman who is employed to look after their car and drive them around in it.
- chaussure — a term for any type of footwear
- chautemps — Camille [ka-mee-yuh] /kaˈmi yə/ (Show IPA), 1885–1963, French politician: premier 1930, 1933–34, 1937–38.
- chavannes — Puvis de [py-vee duh] /püˈvi də/ (Show IPA), Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre.
- chayefsky — Paddy [pad-ee] /ˈpæd i/ (Show IPA), 1923–1981, U.S. playwright and director.
- cheap out — to take the cheapest option; try to do something as cheaply as possible
- cheapened — Simple past tense and past participle of cheapen.
- cheapener — One who cheapens.
- cheapjack — a peddler, especially of inferior articles.
- cheapness — The state of being cheap.
- cheapside — street and district of London; in the Middle Ages it was a marketplace
- 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.
- chechaquo — Alternative form of cheechako.
- checkable — capable of being checked, as by inquiry or verification: The fact is checkable from available records.
- checkback — a check or verification of a process, tabulation, etc., already completed.
- checkmark — a tick
- checkmate — to thwart or render powerless
- checkrail — (in a window sash) a meeting rail, especially one closing against the corresponding rail with a diagonal or rabbeted overlap.
- cheechako — a newcomer to the state of Alaska
- cheerlead — to lead a crowd in formal cheers at sports events
- cheesevat — (in cheese making) a vat in which curds are formed and cut
- chelating — Having the ability to undergo chelation.
- chelation — the process by which a chelate is formed
- chelators — Plural form of chelator.
- chelicera — one of a pair of appendages on the head of spiders and other arachnids: often modified as food-catching claws
- chelonian — any reptile of the order Chelonia, including the tortoises and turtles, in which most of the body is enclosed in a protective bony capsule
- chemicals — the commercial production and sale of chemical products
- chemostat — an apparatus for growing bacterial cultures at a constant rate by controlling the supply of nutrient medium
- chempaduk — an evergreen moraceous tree, Artocarpus champeden (or A. integer), of Malaysia, similar to the jackfruit
- chemtrail — A contrail consisting of chemicals or biological agents deliberately sprayed at high altitudes, according to certain conspiracy theories.
- chennault — Claire Lee [klair] /klɛər/ (Show IPA), 1890–1958, U.S. Air Force general.
- cheongsam — a straight dress, usually of silk or cotton, with a stand-up collar and a slit in one side of the skirt, worn by Chinese women
- chequable — (finance, of an account) On which cheques can be drawn.
- cheralite — a rare monazite mineral consisting of thorium and calcium
- 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