12-letter words containing c, i, n, h, e
- chicharrones — A Hispanic dish; made of fried pork rinds.
- chichen itza — a village in Yucatán state in Mexico: site of important Mayan ruins
- chicken coop — a coop for chickens.
- chicken feed — If you think that an amount of money is so small it is hardly worth having or considering, you can say that it is chicken feed.
- chicken hawk — any of various hawks, esp. an accipiter, that prey, or are reputed to prey, on barnyard fowl
- chicken head — (graphics, abuse) The Commodore Business Machines logo, which strongly resembles a poultry part. Rendered in ASCII as "C=". With the arguable exception of the Amiga, Commodore's computers are notoriously crocky little bitty boxes (see also PETSCII). Thus, this usage may owe something to Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (the basis for the movie "Blade Runner"; the novel is now sold under that title), in which a "chickenhead" is a mutant with below-average intelligence.
- chicken kiev — boned chicken breasts pounded until thin, wrapped around lumps of herbed butter, breaded, and fried in butter or deep fat, and usually served with kasha or brown rice
- chicken shit — boring or annoying details or unimportant tasks.
- chicken wire — Chicken wire is a type of thin wire netting.
- chicken-shit — boring or annoying details or unimportant tasks.
- chickenheads — Plural form of chickenhead.
- chieftainess — a female chieftain
- chiffonniere — a worktable of the 18th century, having several tiers of shallow drawers.
- child minder — a person who looks after children, esp those whose parents are working
- child-minder — a baby-sitter.
- childbearing — Childbearing is the process of giving birth to babies.
- childishness — of, like, or befitting a child: childish games.
- childrearing — the raising and parenting of children: Childrearing extends beyond simple guardianship to nurturing and guidance.
- chiliahedron — a thousand-sided polyhedron
- chilien shan — Qilian Shan.
- chimney rock — a column of rock rising above the level of the surrounding area or isolated on the face of a steep slope.
- chimneyboard — a partition or a cover to shut off a fireplace
- chimneypiece — A chimneypiece is the same as a mantlepiece.
- chimneysweep — Alternative form of chimney sweep.
- china closet — a cabinet or cupboard for storing or exhibiting chinaware.
- chinaberries — Plural form of chinaberry.
- chincoteague — a town on a small island in a lagoon (Chincoteague Bay) in E Virginia: annual wild pony roundup.
- chinese burn — a minor torture inflicted by twisting the skin of a person's wrist or arm in two different directions simultaneously
- chinese copy — an exact copy of an original
- chinese date — an Old World tree, Ziziphus jujuba, thriving in hot, dry regions.
- chinese leaf — the edible leaves of a Chinese cabbage
- chinese tour — a tour in which visitors are shown only what those in charge want them to see.
- chinese wall — a notional barrier between the parts of a business, esp between the market makers and brokers of a stock-exchange business, across which no information should pass to the detriment of clients
- chiropterans — Plural form of chiropteran.
- chirurgeonly — in the manner of a surgeon
- chisel point — a nail or spike with the point formed by two flat inclined sides meeting at a sharp angle.
- chitterlings — the intestines of a pig or other animal prepared as a dish
- chlorospinel — a variety of spinel used as a gem, colored grass-green by the presence of copper.
- choir-screen — a partition or a screen in a church that acts as a divide between the choir and the aisles
- cholericness — The state or quality of being choleric.
- chondriosome — mitochondrion
- christenings — Plural form of christening.
- christianise — to make Christian.
- christianite — (mineral) alternative name of phillipsite.
- christianize — to make Christian or convert to Christianity
- christophene — chayote.
- chronologies — Plural form of chronology.
- chronologise — Alternative spelling of chronologize.
- chronologize — to arrange in an order determined by when events took place
- chronometric — of a chronometer or chronometry