9-letter words containing d, i, c
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- chastised — to discipline, especially by corporal punishment.
- chastized — Simple past tense and past participle of chastize.
- cheapside — street and district of London; in the Middle Ages it was a marketplace
- cherished — clung to, esp when fulfilment is unlikely
- chickadee — A chickadee is a small North American bird with gray and black feathers.
- chickened — Simple past tense and past participle of chicken.
- chickweed — Chickweed is a plant with small leaves and white flowers which grows close to the ground.
- chidingly — In a chiding manner.
- chidlings — the intestines of an animal, esp a pig, prepared as food
- childcare — Childcare refers to looking after children, and to the facilities which help parents to do so.
- childfree — having no children; childless, especially by choice.
- childhood — A person's childhood is the period of their life when they are a child.
- childless — Someone who is childless has no children.
- childlike — You describe someone as childlike when they seem like a child in their character, appearance, or behaviour.
- childline — a telephone helpline for children in distress or danger
- childmind — To look after children while their parents are absent.
- childness — the nature or character of a child
- childrens — (intentionally incorrect, nonstandard) Plural form of child.
- childship — The state or relation of being a child.
- chili dog — a hot dog with chilli
- chilidogs — Plural form of chilidog.
- chillaxed — Simple past tense and past participle of chillax.
- chilopods — Plural form of chilopod.
- chimneyed — Containing chimneys, or a particular type or number of chimney.
- chipboard — Chipboard is a hard material made out of very small pieces of wood which have been pressed together. It is often used for making doors and furniture.
- chipheads — Plural form of chiphead.
- chippered — to chirp or twitter.
- chiropody — Chiropody is the professional treatment and care of people's feet.
- chirruped — Simple past tense and past participle of chirrup.
- chiselled — If you say that someone, usually a man, has chiselled features, you mean that their face has a strong, clear bone structure.
- chittered — Simple past tense and past participle of chitter.
- chlamydia — Chlamydia is a sexually-transmitted disease.
- chlorides — Plural form of chloride.
- chondrify — to become or convert into cartilage
- chondrite — a stony meteorite consisting mainly of silicate minerals in the form of chondrules
- chondroid — cartilaginous or similar to cartilage
- chordwise — in the direction of an aerofoil chord
- choroidal — relating to the choroid
- chowkidar — (in India) a watchman or gatekeeper.
- chromatid — either of the two strands into which a chromosome divides during mitosis. They separate to form daughter chromosomes at anaphase
- chromidia — chromatins in cell cytoplasm
- chrysalid — of or relating to a chrysalis