9-letter words containing a, e, c, i
- checkrail — (in a window sash) a meeting rail, especially one closing against the corresponding rail with a diagonal or rabbeted overlap.
- chelating — Having the ability to undergo chelation.
- chelation — the process by which a chelate is formed
- 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
- chemtrail — A contrail consisting of chemicals or biological agents deliberately sprayed at high altitudes, according to certain conspiracy theories.
- 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
- chevalier — a member of certain orders of merit, such as the French Legion of Honour
- chiarezza — clarity
- chic sale — an outside privy.
- chicalote — a poppy, Argemone platyceras, of the southwestern US and Mexico with prickly leaves and white or yellow flowers
- chicanery — Chicanery is using cleverness to cheat people.
- 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
- chickpeas — Plural form of chickpea.
- chieftain — A chieftain is the leader of a tribe.
- chiengmai — a town in NW Thailand: teak, silver, silk industries: university (1964). Pop: 182 000 (2005 est)
- childcare — Childcare refers to looking after children, and to the facilities which help parents to do so.
- chillaxed — Simple past tense and past participle of chillax.
- chimaeras — Plural form of chimaera.
- chimaeric — (of a molecule) having two genetically different components
- 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
- china tea — China tea is tea made from large dark-green or reddish-brown tea leaves. It is usually drunk without milk or sugar.
- chinaware — articles made of china, esp those made for domestic use
- chipewyan — a member of a North American Indian people of NW Canada
- chipheads — Plural form of chiphead.
- chipmaker — a manufacturer of electronic chips.
- chippable — having the ability to be reduced to small pieces
- chippeway — Chippewa.
- chitinase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that hydrolyzes chitin.
- cholaemia — a toxic medical condition indicated by the presence of bile in the blood
- cholaemic — of or relating to cholaemia
- choleraic — relating to, like, or developing from cholera
- choreatic — any of several diseases of the nervous system characterized by jerky, involuntary movements, chiefly of the face and extremities.
- chronaxie — the minimum time required for excitation of a nerve or muscle when the stimulus is double the minimum (threshold) necessary to elicit a basic response
- ci-devant — (esp of an office-holder) former; recent
- cicatrice — Physiology. new tissue that forms over a wound and later contracts into a scar.
- cicatrise — (transitive) To heal a wound through scarring (by causing a scar or cicatrix to form).
- cicatrize — (of a wound or defect in tissue) to close or be closed by scar formation; heal
- cichlidae — the family of cichlid fish
- cigarette — Cigarettes are small tubes of paper containing tobacco which people smoke.
- cigarlike — resembling a cigar
- ciguatera — food poisoning caused by a ciguatoxin in seafood
- ciliolate — covered with minute hairs, as some plants
- cimmerian — very dark; gloomy
- cineastes — Plural form of cineaste.