9-letter words containing d, c, h
- cardphone — a public telephone operated by the insertion of a phonecard instead of coins
- cardpunch — a device, no longer widely used, controlled by a computer, for transferring information from the central processing unit onto punched cards
- cardshark — (chiefly, US) A cardsharp.
- cardsharp — a professional card player who cheats
- cash card — A cash card is a card that banks give to their customers so that they can get money out of a cash dispenser.
- cash desk — A cash desk is a place in a large shop where you pay for the things you want to buy.
- cashed up — having plenty of money
- cashiered — to dismiss (a military officer) from service, especially with disgrace.
- catch dog — a dog used to help round up livestock.
- catchweed — a weedy plant with a prickly stem
- catchword — A catchword is a word or phrase that becomes popular or well-known, for example, because it is associated with a political campaign.
- catfished — Simple past tense and past participle of catfish.
- cathartid — (zoology) Any member of the Cathartidae.
- cathected — to invest emotion or feeling in (an idea, object, or another person).
- cathedral — A cathedral is a very large and important church which has a bishop in charge of it.
- cavendish — tobacco that has been sweetened and pressed into moulds to form bars
- cephaloid — Shaped like the head or the brain.
- chaetopod — any annelid worm of the classes Oligochaeta or Polychaeta
- chafeweed — wood cudweed.
- chaffered — Simple past tense and past participle of chaffer.
- chagrined — If you are chagrined by something, it disappoints, upsets, or annoys you, perhaps because of your own failure.
- chair bed — a chair that can be opened out to form a bed.
- chairdays — old age, or the point in life when resting in a chair is the most comfortable way of passing time
- chairlady — chairwoman.
- chairside — Relating to activities that happen next to the dental chair during treatment.
- chalcedon — ancient Greek city on the Bosporus, opposite Byzantium: site of the 4th ecumenical council, a.d. 451
- chambered — having a chamber inside it in which the body of an important person was laid to rest
- chamfered — a cut that is made in wood or some other material, usually at a 45° angle to the adjacent principal faces. Compare bevel.
- chaminade — Cécile Louise Stéphanie [sey-seel lweez stey-fa-nee] /seɪˈsil lwiz steɪ faˈni/ (Show IPA), 1857–1944, French pianist and composer.
- chancroid — a soft venereal ulcer, esp of the male genitals, caused by infection with the bacillus Haemophilus ducreyi
- chandelle — an abrupt climbing turn almost to the point of stalling, in which an aircraft's momentum is used to increase its rate of climb
- chandlers — Plural form of chandler.
- chandlery — the business, warehouse, or merchandise of a chandler
- channeled — the bed of a stream, river, or other waterway.
- chapleted — wearing a wreath or garland on the head
- chaptered — a main division of a book, treatise, or the like, usually bearing a number or title.
- chardzhou — a city in E Turkmenistan, on the Amu Darya.
- chartered — Chartered is used to indicate that someone, such as an accountant or a surveyor, has formally qualified in their profession.
- charybdis — a ship-devouring monster in classical mythology, identified with a whirlpool off the north coast of Sicily, lying opposite Scylla on the Italian coast
- chastened — subdued; humbled
- chastised — to discipline, especially by corporal punishment.
- chastized — Simple past tense and past participle of chastize.
- chattered — to talk rapidly in a foolish or purposeless way; jabber.
- cheapened — Simple past tense and past participle of cheapen.
- cheapside — street and district of London; in the Middle Ages it was a marketplace
- cheat day — a day in which a person goes off a dietary regimen: Today’s my cheat day, so I’m eating pizza and ice cream.
- checkered — having a pattern of squares
- cheerlead — to lead a crowd in formal cheers at sports events
- chempaduk — an evergreen moraceous tree, Artocarpus champeden (or A. integer), of Malaysia, similar to the jackfruit
- chequered — If a person or organization has had a chequered career or history, they have had a varied past with both good and bad periods.