9-letter words containing c, h, i, k
- chuckling — Present participle of chuckle.
- chukotian — a group of genetically related languages spoken on the Chukchi and Kamchatka peninsulas in eastern Siberia, including Chukchi, Kamchadal, and Koryak.
- chungking — Chongqing
- churnmilk — buttermilk
- clackdish — a dish carried by a beggar
- clerkship — The position or status of a clerk, especially in the legal profession.
- cockfight — a fight between two gamecocks fitted with sharp metal spurs
- dabchicks — Plural form of dabchick.
- deckchair — A deckchair is a simple chair with a folding frame, and a piece of canvas as the seat and back. Deckchairs are usually used on the beach, on a ship, or in the garden.
- dish rack — frame for drying dishes
- doohickey — a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
- fightback — A fightback is an effort made by a person or group of people to get back into a strong position when they seem likely to lose something such as an election or an important sports match.
- fish cake — a fried ball or cake of shredded fish, especially salt codfish, and mashed potato.
- fish duck — merganser.
- fishyback — a cargo supply chain involving container transfer from lorry to ship
- fuck with — to have sexual intercourse with.
- geek chic — a fashion style believed to be characteristic of geeks, including the wearing of heavy-rimmed glasses and T-shirts with humorous slogans
- hackerish — (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a hacker (technically skilled computer enthusiast).
- hackitude — (jargon) An even sillier word for hackishness.
- hair-lock — a curl of the hair of the head
- hand-pick — to pick by hand.
- hard tick — any tick of the family Ixodidae, characterized by a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head.
- hat trick — Cricket. the knocking off by one bowler of three wickets with three successive pitches: so called because formerly such a bowler was rewarded with a hat.
- hat-trick — Cricket. the knocking off by one bowler of three wickets with three successive pitches: so called because formerly such a bowler was rewarded with a hat.
- headstick — a piece of wood formerly used in typesetting to create a margin at the top of a page
- heartsick — extremely depressed or unhappy.
- helidecks — Plural form of helideck.
- hendricks — a male given name, form of Henry.
- hick town — an insulting way of referring to a small town in the countryside that is not deemed to be very sophisticated
- hickories — Plural form of hickory.
- hicks yew — a hybrid yew, Taxus media hicksii, having a columnar manner of growth.
- hijackers — Plural form of hijacker.
- hijacking — Present participle of hijack.
- hitchcock — Sir Alfred (Joseph) 1899–1980, U.S. film and television director and producer, born in England.
- hitchhike — to travel by standing on the side of the road and soliciting rides from passing vehicles.
- hotchkiss — Hazel, Wightman, Hazel Hotchkiss.
- in shtuck — in trouble
- jack shit — anything at all; the least thing (usually used in the negative): He doesn't know jack shit.
- jacklight — a portable cresset, oil-burning lantern, or electric light used as a lure in hunting or fishing at night.
- jacksmith — a smith who makes devices that enable the turning of meat while being roasted
- jock itch — a fungal infection of the skin in the groin area, occurring most commonly in males, especially in warm climates, characterized by itchy and often scaly lesions; tinea cruris.
- jockeyish — resembling a jockey
- kachcheri — The government department that administrates a district in Sri Lanka.
- kadaitcha — Alternative form of kurdaitcha.
- kawaguchi — a city on SE Honshu, in central Japan, N of Tokyo.
- kerchiefs — Plural form of kerchief.
- ketchikan — a seaport in SE Alaska: transportation and communications center.
- kickshaws — Plural form of kickshaw.
- kickwheel — a potter's wheel rotated by kicking.
- kirchhoff — Gustav Robert [goo s-tahf roh-bert] /ˈgʊs tɑf ˈroʊ bɛrt/ (Show IPA), 1824–87, German physicist.