9-letter words containing a, c, h, i, s
- chartings — Plural form of charting.
- chartists — the principles or movement of a party of political reformers, chiefly workingmen, in England from 1838 to 1848: so called from the document (People's Charter or National Charter) that contained a statement of their principles and demands.
- 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
- chassis's — Automotive. the frame, wheels, and machinery of a motor vehicle, on which the body is supported.
- 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.
- chatlines — Plural form of chatline.
- chattiest — Superlative form of chatty.
- cheapside — street and district of London; in the Middle Ages it was a marketplace
- chemicals — the commercial production and sale of chemical products
- chiamussu — Jiamusi.
- chiasmata — Anatomy. a crossing or decussation, as that of the optic nerves at the base of the brain.
- chic sale — an outside privy.
- chickasaw — a member of a Native American people of N Mississippi
- chickasha — a city in central Oklahoma.
- chickpeas — Plural form of chickpea.
- chimaeras — Plural form of chimaera.
- chimineas — Plural form of chiminea.
- china sea — part of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of China: divided by Taiwan into the East China Sea in the north and the South China Sea in the south
- chinampas — Plural form of chinampa.
- chinstrap — a strap that goes under the chin
- chipheads — Plural form of chiphead.
- chishtiya — a Sufi order of the Indian subcontinent.
- chisimaio — a port in S Somalia, on the Indian Ocean. Pop: reliable recent estimates are not available
- chitchats — Plural form of chitchat.
- chitinase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that hydrolyzes chitin.
- choralist — a person who sings in a chorus or ensemble
- choriambs — Plural form of choriamb.
- christian — A Christian is someone who follows the teachings of Jesus Christ.
- christina — 1626–89, queen of Sweden (1632–54), daughter of Gustavus Adolphus, noted particularly for her patronage of literature
- christmas — Christmas is a Christian festival when the birth of Jesus Christ is celebrated. Christmas is celebrated on the 25th of December.
- chrysalid — of or relating to a chrysalis
- chrysalis — A chrysalis is a butterfly or moth in the stage between being a larva and an adult.
- churidars — long tight-fitting trousers, worn by Indian men and women
- chuvashia — an autonomous republic in the Russian Federation, in the basin of the Volga River in central Russia. 7066 sq. mi. (18,300 sq. km). Capital: Cheboksary.
- cinchonas — Plural form of cinchona.
- citharist — a player of the cithara
- clackdish — a dish carried by a beggar
- clianthus — any Australian or New Zealand plant of the leguminous genus Clianthus, with ornamental clusters of slender scarlet flowers
- coolibahs — Plural form of coolibah.
- crampfish — a ray of the order Torpediniformes with electric organs on either side of its head
- crisphead — a variety of lettuce with a dense cabbage-like head and mild crunchy leaves
- crosshair — either of the two fine mutually perpendicular lines or wires that cross in the focal plane of a theodolite, gunsight, or other optical instrument and are used to define the line of sight
- dabchicks — Plural form of dabchick.
- decastich — a poem that consists of ten lines
- dichasium — a cymose inflorescence in which each branch bearing a flower gives rise to two other flowering branches, as in the stitchwort
- disanchor — to raise the anchor of (a ship)
- disbranch — to break or cut (a branch) off a tree or shrub.