9-letter words containing c, h, e, n
- channeled — the bed of a stream, river, or other waterway.
- channeler — a person or thing that channels; specif., a medium (sense 7)
- chantable — able to be chanted or sung
- chanteuse — a female singer, esp in a nightclub or cabaret
- chantlike — Resembling a chant.
- chantress — a female chanter or singer
- chantries — Plural form of chantry.
- chaperone — A chaperone is someone who accompanies another person somewhere in order to make sure that they do not come to any harm.
- chaperons — Plural form of chaperon.
- chariness — the state of being chary
- charleton — a male given name.
- charmante — Silk fabric with a crepe back.
- charwomen — Plural form of charwoman.
- chastened — subdued; humbled
- chastener — to inflict suffering upon for purposes of moral improvement; chastise.
- chatelain — the keeper or governor of a castle
- chatlines — Plural form of chatline.
- chavannes — Puvis de [py-vee duh] /püˈvi də/ (Show IPA), Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre.
- cheapened — Simple past tense and past participle of cheapen.
- cheapener — One who cheapens.
- cheapness — The state of being cheap.
- checkrein — a rein usually running from the bit to the saddle, used to keep a horse from lowering its head
- cheekbone — Your cheekbones are the two bones in your face just below your eyes.
- chelating — Having the ability to undergo chelation.
- chelation — the process by which a chelate is formed
- 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
- chemokine — a type of protein produced during inflammation that activates white blood cells
- chemonite — a solution consisting of copper hydroxide, arsenic trioxide, ammonia, acetic acid, and water: used as a wood preservative.
- chengchow — Zhengzhou
- 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
- cherenkov — Pavel Alekseyevich (ˈpavɪl alɪkˈsjejɪvitʃ). 1904–90, Soviet physicist: noted for work on the effects produced by high-energy particles: shared Nobel prize for physics 1958
- chernenko — Konstantin (Ustinovich) (kənstanˈtin). 1911–85, Soviet statesman; general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party (1984–85)
- chernigov — a city in N central Ukraine, on the River Desna: tyres, pianos, consumer goods. Pop: 308 000 (2005 est)
- chernobyl — a town in N Ukraine; site of a nuclear power station accident in 1986
- chernozem — a black soil, rich in humus and carbonates, in cool or temperate semiarid regions, as the grasslands of Russia
- cherubini — (Maria) Luigi (Carlo Zenobio Salvatore) (luˈiːdʒi). 1760–1842, Italian composer, noted particularly for his church music and his operas.
- cheruping — Present participle of cherup.
- cherylene — a female given name.
- chestnuts — Plural form of chestnut.
- chevening — a mansion and estate in SE England, in western Kent: the official country residence of the British foreign secretary
- chevronel — a narrow chevron, one-half the usual breadth or less.
- chewiness — the condition of necessitating chewing or of being difficult to chew
- chi meson — a meson with a mass 6687 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 1.5 X 10 -20 seconds.
- chicanery — Chicanery is using cleverness to cheat people.
- chickened — Simple past tense and past participle of chicken.
- chiefling — a minor chief
- 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)
- childline — a telephone helpline for children in distress or danger