9-letter words containing e, c, h, i
- cavendish — tobacco that has been sweetened and pressed into moulds to form bars
- cephalgia — (medicine) headache.
- cephalins — Plural form of cephalin.
- cephaloid — Shaped like the head or the brain.
- chabasite — Alternative form of chabazite.
- chabazite — a pink, white, or colourless zeolite mineral consisting of a hydrated silicate of calcium, sodium, potassium, and aluminium in hexagonal crystalline form. Formula: Ca2Al2Si4O12.6H2O
- chaconine — a toxic alkaloid substance found in potatoes
- chagrined — If you are chagrined by something, it disappoints, upsets, or annoys you, perhaps because of your own failure.
- chainbelt — a belt made up of metal links, used as a conveyor or with a chain gear.
- chainless — having no chain or chains
- chainlike — Having the form of a chain.
- chair bed — a chair that can be opened out to form a bed.
- chairside — Relating to activities that happen next to the dental chair during treatment.
- chalybite — siderite (def 1).
- chaminade — Cécile Louise Stéphanie [sey-seel lweez stey-fa-nee] /seɪˈsil lwiz steɪ faˈni/ (Show IPA), 1857–1944, French pianist and composer.
- chamomile — camomile
- chamosite — a mineral of the chlorite group, hydrous aluminum silicate of iron, occurring in gray or black crystals in oolitic iron ore.
- chance it — take a chance or risk
- chanciest — Superlative form of chancy.
- chantlike — Resembling a chant.
- chantries — Plural form of chantry.
- chapiters — Plural form of chapiter.
- chariness — the state of being chary
- charities — Plural form of charity.
- charleroi — a town in SW Belgium, in Hainaut province: centre of an industrial region. Pop: 200 608 (2004 est)
- charles i — title as Holy Roman Emperor of Charlemagne
- charteris — Leslie, original name Leslie Charles Bowyer Yin. 1907–93, British novelist, born in Singapore: created the character Simon Templar, known as The Saint, the central character in many adventure novels
- chastised — to discipline, especially by corporal punishment.
- chastiser — Someone who chastises.
- chastises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chastise.
- chastized — Simple past tense and past participle of chastize.
- chatelain — the keeper or governor of a castle
- chatlines — Plural form of chatline.
- chatterji — Bankim Chandra [buhng-kim chuhn-druh] /ˈbʌŋ kɪm ˈtʃʌn drə/ (Show IPA), 1838–94, Indian novelist in the Bengali language.
- chattiest — Superlative form of chatty.
- cheapside — street and district of London; in the Middle Ages it was a marketplace
- check bit — a binary digit used as part of a unit of information that is intended to indicate whether or not an error has occurred in the transmission or storage of the information.
- checklist — A checklist is a list of all the things that you need to do, information that you want to find out, or things that you need to take somewhere, which you make in order to ensure that you do not forget anything.
- checkrail — (in a window sash) a meeting rail, especially one closing against the corresponding rail with a diagonal or rabbeted overlap.
- checkrein — a rein usually running from the bit to the saddle, used to keep a horse from lowering its head
- cheekiest — Superlative form of cheeky.
- cheeriest — Superlative form of cheery.
- cheese it — to stop; desist.
- cheesiest — of or like cheese: a cheesy aroma; a cheesy taste.
- cheilitis — an inflammation of the lip or lips
- cheilosis — Inflammation of one or both of the corners of the mouth.
- chelating — Having the ability to undergo chelation.
- chelation — the process by which a chelate is formed
- chelicera — one of a pair of appendages on the head of spiders and other arachnids: often modified as food-catching claws
- cheliform — shaped like a chela; pincer-like