5-letter words containing c, h, i
- chiru — a Tibetan antelope, Pantholops hodgsoni, having a dense woolly pinkish-brown fleece prized as the source of shahtoosh wool: now close to extinction due to illegal slaughter for its fleece
- chita — an industrial city in SE Russia, on the Trans-Siberian railway. Pop: 309 000 (2005 est)
- chits — pure consciousness.
- chive — a small Eurasian purple-flowered alliaceous plant, Allium schoenoprasum, whose long slender hollow leaves are used in cooking to flavour soups, stews, etc
- chivy — to harass or nag
- choil — An unsharpened section of a knife blade in front of the guard on the blade.
- choir — A choir is a group of people who sing together, for example in a church or school.
- choli — a short-sleeved bodice, as worn by Indian women
- chris — a male given name, form of Christopher.
- cinch — If you say that something is a cinch, you mean that you think it is very easy to do.
- crith — a unit of weight for gases, equal to the weight of one litre of hydrogen at standard pressure and temperature (0.09 grams)
- cuish — a piece of armor or padding for protecting the thigh.
- dicht — to wipe (something)
- dioch — An African weaverbird of the genus Quelea.
- ditch — a long, narrow excavation made in the ground by digging, as for draining or irrigating land; trench.
- ecchi — noting or pertaining to a subgenre of Japanese manga, anime, computer games, etc., characterized by light, playful sexual themes and imagery.
- ethic — A set of moral principles, especially ones relating to or affirming a specified group, field, or form of conduct.
- fiche — microfiche.
- fichu — a woman's kerchief or shawl, generally triangular in shape, worn draped over the shoulders or around the neck with the ends drawn together on the breast.
- filch — to steal (especially something of small value); pilfer: to filch ashtrays from fancy restaurants.
- finch — any of numerous small passerine birds of the family Fringillidae, including the buntings, sparrows, crossbills, purple finches, and grosbeaks, most of which have a short, conical bill adapted for eating seeds.
- fitch — John, 1743–98, U.S. inventor: pioneer in development of the steamboat.
- gitch — (Saskatchewan) Women's or men's underwear.
- hemic — hematic.
- hicks — an unsophisticated, boorish, and provincial person; rube.
- hicky — hick (def 2).
- hilch — to limp or hobble
- hipac — An active DBMS from Xerox Advanced Information Technology.
- hitch — to fasten or tie, especially temporarily, by means of a hook, rope, strap, etc.; tether: Steve hitched the horse to one of the posts.
- hoick — Lift or pull abruptly or with effort.
- humic — of or noting a substance, as an acid, obtained from humus.
- hylic — of or relating to matter; material or solid, having a physical form
- ichor — Classical Mythology. an ethereal fluid flowing in the veins of the gods.
- itchy — having or causing an itching sensation.
- kochi — a seaport on central Shikoku, in SW Japan.
- lichi — Alternative spelling of lychee.
- licht — light1
- linch — A ledge; a right-angled projection.
- micah — a Minor Prophet of the 8th century b.c.
- miche — to lurk out of sight.
- milch — (of a domestic animal) yielding milk; kept or suitable for milk production.
- minch — a sea channel between mainland Scotland and the Outer Hebrides islands. 25–45 miles (40–70 km) wide. See also Little Minch.
- mitch — (transitive, dialectal) To pilfer; filch; steal.
- mochi — cooked and pounded glutinous rice formed into various shapes and used to make traditional Japanese sweets and other dishes (often used attributively): mochi balls; mochi ice cream.
- niche — an ornamental recess in a wall or the like, usually semicircular in plan and arched, as for a statue or other decorative object.
- nihcl — A class library for C++ from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).
- nitch — Misspelling of niche.
- ohmic — the standard unit of electrical resistance in the International System of Units (SI), formally defined to be the electrical resistance between two points of a conductor when a constant potential difference applied between these points produces in this conductor a current of one ampere. The resistance in ohms is numerically equal to the magnitude of the potential difference. Symbol: Ω.
- pilch — an infant's wrapper worn over a diaper.
- pinch — to squeeze or compress between the finger and thumb, the teeth, the jaws of an instrument, or the like.