9-letter words containing c, h, i, g, n
- in charge — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- inarching — to graft by uniting a growing branch to a stock without separating the branch from its parent stock.
- kiungchow — Qiongzhou.
- kvetching — Present participle of kvetch.
- launching — Present participle of launch.
- lechering — a man given to excessive sexual indulgence; a lascivious or licentious man.
- lynchings — Plural form of lynching.
- machining — an apparatus consisting of interrelated parts with separate functions, used in the performance of some kind of work: a sewing machine.
- matchings — Plural form of matching.
- megachain — A very large and successful chain (group of stores or businesses).
- neogothic — of, relating to, or designating chiefly a style of architecture in which gothic motifs and forms are imitated.
- nightcaps — Plural form of nightcap.
- nightclub — Also, night club. an establishment for evening entertainment, generally open until the early morning, that serves liquor and usually food and offers patrons music, comedy acts, a floor show, or dancing; nightspot.
- pinch bug — a stag beetle
- preaching — the act or practice of a person who preaches.
- quenching — to slake, satisfy, or allay (thirst, desires, passion, etc.).
- schelling — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von [free-drikh vil-helm yoh-zef fuh n] /ˈfri drɪx ˈvɪl hɛlm ˈyoʊ zɛf fən/ (Show IPA), 1775–1854, German philosopher.
- schilling — a copper and aluminum coin and monetary unit of Austria until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 groschen. Abbreviation: S., Sch.
- schmeling — Max [maks;; German mahks] /mæks;; German mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1905–2005, German boxer: world heavyweight champion 1930–32.
- schooling — a large number of fish, porpoises, whales, or the like, feeding or migrating together.
- schwinger — Julian Seymour, 1918–94, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1965.
- scorching — burning; very hot.
- scotching — scutch (defs 2, 4).
- searching — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
- sketching — a simply or hastily executed drawing or painting, especially a preliminary one, giving the essential features without the details.
- smooching — smutch.
- snatching — to make a sudden effort to seize something, as with the hand; grab (usually followed by at).
- stitching — one complete movement of a threaded needle through a fabric or material such as to leave behind it a single loop or portion of thread, as in sewing, embroidery, or the surgical closing of wounds.
- switching — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.
- ta ch'ing — Ch'ing.
- teachings — the act or profession of a person who teaches.
- thatching — Also, thatching. a material, as straw, rushes, leaves, or the like, used to cover roofs, grain stacks, etc.
- tranching — Finance. one part or division of a larger unit, as of an asset pool or investment: The loan will be repaid in three tranches. a group of securities that share a certain characteristic and form part of a larger offering: The second tranche of the bond issue has a five-year maturity.
- vetchling — any of several slender, climbing plants belonging to the genus Lathyrus, of the legume family, similar to the vetch but having a winged or angular stem, as L. palustris, of North America.
- wickthing — a creeping animal, such as a woodlouse
- wrenching — to twist suddenly and forcibly; pull, jerk, or force by a violent twist: He wrenched the prisoner's wrist.
- wretching — Present participle of wretch.