9-letter words containing d, i, h
- 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
- churidars — long tight-fitting trousers, worn by Indian men and women
- cichlidae — the family of cichlid fish
- clackdish — a dish carried by a beggar
- codfishes — Plural form of codfish.
- cohabited — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- cold fish — If you say that someone is a cold fish, you think that they are unfriendly and unemotional.
- cowhiding — Present participle of cowhide.
- crisphead — a variety of lettuce with a dense cabbage-like head and mild crunchy leaves
- cushioned — provided with cushions
- d-horizon — a stratum, as of rock, sometimes underlying the C-horizon
- dabchicks — Plural form of dabchick.
- daisy ham — a boned and smoked piece of pork from the pig's shoulder
- dalhousie — 9th Earl of, title of George Ramsay. 1770–1838, British general; governor of the British colonies in Canada (1819–28)
- danthonia — any of various grasses of the genus Danthonia, of N temperate regions and South America
- dashingly — In a dashing manner.
- dashlight — a light illuminating the dashboard of an automobile, esp at night
- dawnlight — The light of dawn.
- day shift — a group of workers who work a shift during the daytime in an industry or occupation where a night shift or a back shift is also worked
- daylights — consciousness or wits (esp in the phrases scare, knock, or beat the (living) daylights out of someone)
- deadlight — a bull's-eye let into the deck or hull of a vessel to admit light to a cabin
- deal with — When you deal with something or someone that needs attention, you give your attention to them, and often solve a problem or make a decision concerning them.