6-letter words containing c, h
- ichno- — track, footprint, trace
- ichth. — ichthyology
- illich — Ivan. 1926–2002. US teacher and writer, born in Austria. His books include Deschooling Society (1971), Medical Nemesis (1975), and In the Mirror of the Past (1991)
- imeche — Institution of Mechanical Engineers
- inarch — to graft by uniting a growing branch to a stock without separating the branch from its parent stock.
- inched — Simple past tense and past participle of inch.
- incher — something that has or is associated with a height or length of an inch or a specified number of inches (often used in combination): The flat-screen televisions are 23-inchers.
- inches — Plural form of inch.
- inchon — a seaport in W South Korea.
- ischia — an Italian island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, W of Naples: earthquake 1883. 18 sq. mi. (47 sq. km).
- ischys — a youth who was slain after committing an act of infidelity with Coronis, the beloved of Apollo.
- itched — Simple past tense and past participle of itch.
- itches — Plural form of itch.
- ithaca — one of the Ionian Islands, off the W coast of Greece: legendary home of Ulysses. 37 sq. mi. (96 sq. km). Greek Itháki.
- jascha — a male given name, Russian form of Jacob or James.
- jochum — Eugen (ˈɔyɡeːn). 1902–87, German orchestral conductor
- kaccha — (Sikhism) An undergarment worn by baptized Sikhs, one of the five Ks.
- kechua — Quechua.
- kimchi — Korean Cookery. a spicy pickled or fermented mixture containing cabbage, onions, and sometimes fish, variously seasoned, as with garlic, horseradish, red peppers, and ginger.
- kirsch — a fragrant, colorless, unaged brandy distilled from a fermented mash of cherries, produced especially in Germany, Switzerland, and Alsace, France.
- kitsch — something of tawdry design, appearance, or content created to appeal to popular or undiscriminating taste.
- klatch — a casual gathering of people, especially for refreshments and informal conversation: a sewing klatsch.
- kocher — Emil Theodor [ey-meel tey-oh-dohr] /ˈeɪ mil ˈteɪ oʊˌdoʊr/ (Show IPA), 1841–1917, Swiss physiologist, pathologist, and surgeon: Nobel Prize 1909.
- kochia — any plant of the widely distributed annual genus Kochia, esp K. Scoparia trichophila, grown for its foliage, which turns dark red in the late summer: family Chenopodiaceae
- krutch — Joseph Wood, 1893–1970, U.S. critic, biographer, naturalist, and teacher.
- kuchen — a yeast-raised coffeecake, often containing fruit.
- kulich — a sweetened, dome-shaped yeast bread, rich in butter and eggs and also containing raisins and topped with a sugar icing: traditionally made at Easter and served with paskha.
- kutcha — crude, imperfect, or temporary.
- kvetch — to complain, especially chronically.
- kwacha — a cupronickel coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Malawi, equal to 100 tambala. Abbreviation: K.
- laches — failure to do something at the proper time, especially such delay as will bar a party from bringing a legal proceeding.
- lamech — the son of Enoch, and the father of Jabal, Jubal, and Tubal-cain. Gen. 4:18.
- launch — to set (a boat or ship) in the water.
- leachy — allowing water to percolate through, as sandy or rocky soil; porous.
- leched — Simple past tense and past participle of lech.
- lecher — a man given to excessive sexual indulgence; a lascivious or licentious man.
- leches — to behave like a lecher (often followed by for or after).
- lechwe — an African antelope, Kobus leche, related to the waterbuck, inhabiting wet, grassy plains: a threatened species.
- lepcha — a member of a people of Sikkim and adjacent areas of Nepal, Bhutan, and India.
- lesche — an arcade or other public place in ancient Greece.
- letcha — (slang) Let you.
- letchy — Alternative form of lechy.
- lichee — the fruit of a Chinese tree, Litchi chinensis, of the soapberry family, consisting of a thin, brittle shell enclosing a sweet, jellylike pulp and a single seed.
- lichen — any complex organism of the group Lichenes, composed of a fungus in symbiotic union with an alga and having a greenish, gray, yellow, brown, or blackish thallus that grows in leaflike, crustlike, or branching forms on rocks, trees, etc.
- litchi — the fruit of a Chinese tree, Litchi chinensis, of the soapberry family, consisting of a thin, brittle shell enclosing a sweet, jellylike pulp and a single seed.
- lithic — pertaining to or consisting of stone.
- lochan — (Scotland) A small loch.
- lochia — the liquid discharge from the uterus after childbirth.
- lochus — (in ancient Greece) a subdivision of an army.
- lorcha — a fast sailing boat, built in China, consisting of a junk-rigged vessel with a European-style hull