6-letter words containing c, h, l
- chiloé — island off SC Chile: 3,241 sq mi (8,394 sq km); pop. 68,000
- chilon — flourished 556 b.c, Greek sage and ephor at Sparta.
- chiral — designating or of an asymmetrical form, as a molecule, that cannot be superimposed on its mirror image
- chisel — A chisel is a tool that has a long metal blade with a sharp edge at the end. It is used for cutting and shaping wood and stone.
- chital — axis deer.
- chlor- — chloro-
- chole- — indicating bile or gall
- cholee — a short-sleeved blouse or bodice, often one exposing part of the midriff, worn by Hindu women in India.
- choler — anger or ill humour
- cholic — Of or pertaining to bile.
- cholis — Plural form of choli.
- cholla — any of several spiny cacti of the genus Opuntia that grow in the southwestern US and Mexico and have cylindrical stem segments
- cholo- — chole-
- cholon — a city in S Vietnam: a suburb of Ho Chi Minh City
- choral — Choral music is sung by a choir.
- chulpa — a type of prehistoric stone tower, found in Brazil and Peru, having living quarters over a burial chamber.
- chulym — a river in S central Siberia, Russia, flowing N and W to the Ob River. 1075 miles (1730 km) long.
- churls — Plural form of churl.
- churly — (archaic) rude; churlish; violent.
- clashy — (obsolete, regional) wet; rainy.
- clatch — a squelching sound
- cleché — voided so that only a narrow border is visible
- clench — When you clench your fist or your fist clenches, you curl your fingers up tightly, usually because you are very angry.
- cliche — A cliché is an idea or phrase which has been used so much that it is no longer interesting or effective or no longer has much meaning.
- clichy — an industrial suburb of NW Paris: residence of the Merovingian kings (7th century). Pop: 58 646 (2007)
- clinch — If you clinch something you are trying to achieve, such as a business deal or victory in a contest, you succeed in obtaining it.
- clitch — Alternative form of clutch.
- cloath — (obsolete) cloth.
- cloche — A cloche is a long, low cover made of glass or clear plastic that is put over young plants to protect them from the cold.
- clothe — To clothe someone means to provide them with clothes to wear.
- clotho — one of the three Fates, spinner of the thread of life
- cloths — a fabric formed by weaving, felting, etc., from wool, hair, silk, flax, cotton, or other fiber, used for garments, upholstery, and many other items.
- clough — a gorge or narrow ravine
- clunch — hardened clay
- clutch — If you clutch at something or clutch something, you hold it tightly, usually because you are afraid or anxious.
- clutha — a river in New Zealand, the longest river in South Island; rising in the Southern Alps it flows southeast to the Pacific. Length: 338 km (210 miles)
- coolth — coolness
- culham — a village in S central England, in Oxfordshire: site of the UK centre for thermonuclear reactor research and of the Joint European Torus (JET) programme
- cultch — old shells, stones, etc., forming a spawning bed for oysters
- elchee — an ambassador
- elench — a refutation of an argument by proving the contrary of its conclusion, esp syllogistically
- eliche — pasta in the form of spirals
- flanch — A flange.
- fleche — Architecture. a steeple or spire, especially one in the Gothic style, emerging from the ridge of a roof.
- fleech — flattery
- flench — to strip the blubber or the skin from (a whale, seal, etc.).
- fletch — to provide (an arrow) with a feather.
- flinch — to draw back or shrink, as from what is dangerous, difficult, or unpleasant.
- flitch — the side of a hog (or, formerly, some other animal) salted and cured: a flitch of bacon.
- flysch — an association of certain types of marine sedimentary rocks characteristic of deposition in a foredeep.