9-letter words containing a, c, k
- chalkrail — a troughlike molding or strip holding chalk, erasers, etc., under a blackboard.
- chantlike — Resembling a chant.
- chapbooks — Plural form of chapbook.
- chapstick — a cylinder of a substance for preventing or soothing chapped lips
- chayefsky — Paddy [pad-ee] /ˈpæd i/ (Show IPA), 1923–1981, U.S. playwright and director.
- cheapjack — a peddler, especially of inferior articles.
- 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
- chempaduk — an evergreen moraceous tree, Artocarpus champeden (or A. integer), of Malaysia, similar to the jackfruit
- cherkassy — city & port in central Ukraine, on the Dnepr River: pop. 302,000
- chiacking — to jeer at; tease; deride.
- chick-pea — Also called garbanzo. a widely cultivated plant, Cicer arietinum, of the legume family, bearing pods containing pealike seeds.
- chickadee — A chickadee is a small North American bird with gray and black feathers.
- chickaree — another name for American red squirrel
- chickasaw — a member of a Native American people of N Mississippi
- chickasha — a city in central Oklahoma.
- chickpeas — Plural form of chickpea.
- chinkapin — chinquapin
- chinkiang — Older Spelling. Zhenjiang.
- chinookan — of the Chinooks or their language or culture
- chipmaker — a manufacturer of electronic chips.
- chokeable — to stop the breath of by squeezing or obstructing the windpipe; strangle; stifle.
- chokedamp — blackdamp
- chokeslam — A wrestling move in which someone is picked up by their neck and is driven into the mat.
- chomskyan — of or relating to Noam Chomsky or his linguistic theories, especially to transformational-generative grammar.
- chop mark — a notch or other mark made in a coin to indicate verification of its authenticity, especially by a banker or merchant in the Far East during the 18th or 19th centuries.
- chopsteak — chopped steak.
- chowkidar — (in India) a watchman or gatekeeper.
- chromakey — (in colour television) a special effect in which a coloured background can be eliminated and a different background substituted
- chu kiang — Zhu Jiang.
- chukotian — a group of genetically related languages spoken on the Chukchi and Kamchatka peninsulas in eastern Siberia, including Chukchi, Kamchadal, and Koryak.
- cigarlike — resembling a cigar
- clackdish — a dish carried by a beggar
- clam-like — resembling a clam
- clambakes — Plural form of clambake.
- clapstick — A kind of drumstick used by striking one against another, to maintain rhythm in Aboriginal voice chants.
- classbook — a book kept by a teacher recording student attendance, grades, etc.
- classwork — school assignments done in the classroom
- claw back — If someone claws back some of the money or power they had lost, they get some of it back again.
- clawbacks — Plural form of clawback.
- cleanskin — an unbranded animal
- clearskin — Cleanskin.
- clickable — A clickable image on a computer screen is one that you can point the cursor at and click on, in order to make something happen.
- clickbait — a sensationalized headline or piece of text on the Internet designed to entice people to follow a link to an article on another web page.
- clickwrap — an agreement made by a computer user through clicking on a particular button onscreen
- cloakroom — In a public building, the cloakroom is the place where people can leave their coats, umbrellas, and so on.