7-letter words containing c, h
- cheerer — A person who, or a thing that cheers.
- cheerio — People sometimes say 'Cheerio' as a way of saying goodbye.
- cheerly — cheerful or cheerfully
- cheesed — disgusted; fed up (usually followed by off).
- cheeser — A broad gleeful grin.
- cheeses — Plural form of cheese.
- cheesey — Misspelling of cheesy.
- cheetah — A cheetah is a wild animal that looks like a large cat with black spots on its body. Cheetahs can run very fast.
- cheever — John. 1912–82, US novelist and short-story writer. His novels include The Wapshot Chronicle (1957) and Bullet Park (1969)
- chefdom — the state or condition of being a chef
- cheilo- — chilo-
- cheiro- — chiro-
- cheiron — Classical Mythology. a wise and beneficent centaur, teacher of Achilles, Asclepius, and others.
- chekhov — Anton Pavlovich (anˈtɔn ˈpavləvitʃ). 1860–1904, Russian dramatist and short-story writer. His plays include The Seagull (1896), Uncle Vanya (1900), The Three Sisters (1901), and The Cherry Orchard (1904)
- chekist — a member of the Cheka
- chelate — a coordination compound in which a metal atom or ion is bound to a ligand at two or more points on the ligand, so as to form a heterocyclic ring containing a metal atom
- chellup — noise
- chelmno — a Nazi concentration camp in central Poland.
- cheloid — keloid
- chelone — any plant of the hardy N American genus Chelone, grown for its white, rose, or purple flower spikes: family Scrophulariaceae
- chelsea — a residential district of SW London, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea: site of the Chelsea Royal Hospital for old and infirm soldiers (Chelsea Pensioners)
- chemics — Plural form of chemic.
- chemise — A chemise is a long, loose piece of underwear worn by women in former times.
- chemism — chemical action
- chemist — A chemist or a chemist's is a shop where drugs and medicines are sold or given out, and where you can buy cosmetics and some household goods.
- chemosh — a Moabite god. Jer. 48.
- chemsex — sexual activity performed while under the influence of psychoactive drugs
- cheneau — an ornamented cresting on a cornice or coping.
- chengde — a city in NE China, in Hebei on the Luan River: summer residence of the Manchu emperors. Pop: 470 000 (2005 est)
- chengdu — a city in S central China, capital of Sichuan province. Pop: 3 478 000 (2005 est)
- chengtu — Chengdu
- chenier — André (Marie de) (ɑ̃dre). 1762–94, French poet; his work was influenced by the ancient Greek elegiac poets. He was guillotined during the French Revolution
- chennai — a port in SE India, capital of Tamil Nadu, on the Bay of Bengal: founded in 1639 by the English East India Company as Fort St George; traditional burial place of St Thomas; university (1857). Pop: 4 216 268 (2001)
- chequer — any of the marbles, pegs, or other pieces used in the game of Chinese chequers
- cheques — Plural form of cheque.
- chereme — any of a small set of elements, analogous to the phoneme in speech, proposed as the basic structural units by which the signs of a sign language are represented, and including the handshapes, hand movements, and locations of the hands in relation to the body employed in a particular sign language.
- cherish — If you cherish something such as a hope or a pleasant memory, you keep it in your mind for a long period of time.
- cheroot — A cheroot is a cigar with both ends cut flat.
- cherrie — Obsolete spelling of cherry.
- cherubs — Plural form of cherub.
- chervil — Chervil is a herb that tastes like aniseed.
- cheskey — a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of Czech extraction, usually an immigrant.
- chesnut — Obsolete spelling of chestnut.
- chessel — a mould used in cheese-making
- chesses — a game played on a chessboard by two people who maneuver sixteen pieces each according to rules governing movement of the six kinds of pieces (pawn, rook, knight, bishop, queen, king), the object being to bring the opponent's king into checkmate.
- chested — having a (specified kind of) chest or thorax
- chester — a city in NW England, administrative centre of the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester, on the River Dee: intact surrounding walls; 16th- and 17th-century double-tier shops. Pop: 80 121 (2001)
- chetnik — a Serbian nationalist belonging to a group that fought against the Turks before World War I and engaged in guerrilla warfare during both World Wars
- chetrum — a Bhutanese unit of money, worth one hundredth of a ngultrum
- chevies — Plural form of chevy.