11-letter words containing c, h, e, k
- checkmarked — to indicate by a check mark.
- checkmating — Present participle of checkmate.
- checkpoints — Plural form of checkpoint.
- checksheets — Plural form of checksheet.
- checkwriter — a machine for printing amounts on checks, as by perforations, so as to prevent alterations.
- cheek pouch — a membranous pouch inside the mouth of many rodents and some other mammals: used for holding food
- cheek strap — (of a bridle) one of two straps passing over the cheeks of the horse and connecting the crown piece with the bit or noseband.
- cheek tooth — any of the three posterior chewing teeth on each side of the upper and lower jaws in human adults; molar.
- cheekpieces — Plural form of cheekpiece.
- cheektowaga — a town in NW New York, near Buffalo.
- cheesecakes — Plural form of cheesecake.
- cheesemaker — a person or thing that makes cheese.
- cheesesteak — a sandwich filled with grilled beef and cheese
- chelyabinsk — an industrial city in SW Russia; in 2013 a large meteor exploded in an airburst over the city's surrounding district. Pop: 1 067 000 (2005 est)
- cheque book — A cheque book is a book of cheques which your bank gives you so that you can pay for things by cheque.
- chequerwork — any work that resembles a chequerboard in pattern
- cheremkhovo — a city in the SE Russian Federation in Asia, on the Trans-Siberian Railroad, near Lake Baikal.
- cherry-pick — If someone cherry-picks people or things, they choose the best ones from a group of them, often in a way that other people consider unfair.
- chess clock — a timer for chess players, having a dial for each player on which his or her accumulated time is recorded and a device for stopping one timer and starting the other at the end of each move.
- chicken out — If someone chickens out of something they were intending to do, they decide not to do it because they are afraid.
- chicken pox — a disease, commonly of children, caused by the varicella zoster virus and characterized by mild headache and fever, malaise, and eruption of blisters on the skin and mucous membranes.
- chicken run — the departure of white residents from South Africa
- chicken-fry — to dip (meat, vegetables, etc.) in batter and fry, usually in deep fat: chicken-fried steak.
- chickenfeed — If you think that an amount of money is so small it is hardly worth having or considering, you can say that it is chickenfeed.
- chickenhawk — Also called hen hawk. (not used scientifically) any of various hawks said to prey on poultry.
- chickenhead — (slang, hip-hop, derogatory) A woman who readily performs fellatio; by extension, an unintelligent and promiscuous woman.
- chickenshit — If you say that someone or something is chickenshit, you mean that they are worthless.
- chimneylike — resembling a chimney
- chinese ink — a black pigment consisting of lampblack mixed with glue or size.
- chip basket — a wire basket for holding potato chips, etc, while frying in deep fat
- choke chain — a collar and lead for a dog so designed that if the dog drags on the lead the collar tightens round its neck
- choke point — a place of greatest congestion and often hazard; bottleneck.
- chokecherry — any of several North American species of cherry, esp Prunus virginiana, having very astringent dark red or black fruit
- chokepoints — Plural form of chokepoint.
- chop stroke — (in tennis, cricket, etc.) a stroke made with a sharp downward movement of the racket, bat, etc., imparting a backspin to the ball.
- choukoutien — Wade-Giles. Zhoukoudian.
- chuck-berry — Charles Edward Anderson ("Chuck") born 1926, U.S. rock-'n'-roll singer, musician, and composer.
- chucker-out — a person employed at a club, pub, disco, etc, to throw out drunks or troublemakers and stop those considered undesirable from entering
- chucklehead — a stupid person; blockhead; dolt
- chucklesome — amusing; full of humour
- chukchi sea — part of the Arctic Ocean, north of the Bering Strait between Asia and North America
- cockchafers — Plural form of cockchafer.
- cockfighter — One who engages in a cockfight.
- cockleshell — the shell of the cockle
- cockroaches — Plural form of cockroach.
- cornhuskers — Plural form of cornhusker.
- crack house — a house or flat where drugs are dealt and used
- crankhandle — a handle for starting a motor
- crochetwork — needlework done by crocheting.
- cross-check — If you cross-check information, you check that it is correct using a different method or source from the one originally used to obtain it.