9-letter words containing h, a, c, i
- chaconine — a toxic alkaloid substance found in potatoes
- chaffinch — A chaffinch is a small European bird. Male chaffinches have reddish-brown fronts and grey heads.
- chaffings — Plural form of chaffing.
- chagrined — If you are chagrined by something, it disappoints, upsets, or annoys you, perhaps because of your own failure.
- chain saw — A chain saw is a big saw with teeth fixed in a chain that is driven round by a motor.
- chain-saw — to cut or cut down (lumber, a tree, etc.) with a chain saw.
- chainbelt — a belt made up of metal links, used as a conveyor or with a chain gear.
- chainfall — a hand-powered hoist consisting of chains working on the pulley principle, used to lift and manoeuvre large heavy objects
- chainless — having no chain or chains
- chainlike — Having the form of a chain.
- chainlink — Wires woven in a zig-zag pattern.
- chainmail — Alternative spelling of chain mail.
- chainsaws — Plural form of chainsaw.
- chainsman — a person who stands in the chains to take soundings; leadsman.
- chainwork — any work linked or looped in the manner of or resembling a chain or chains
- chair bed — a chair that can be opened out to form a bed.
- chair car — a railroad passenger car with pairs of adjustable seats on both sides of the aisle
- chairback — the part of a chair that supports the sitter's back
- chairdays — old age, or the point in life when resting in a chair is the most comfortable way of passing time
- chairlady — chairwoman.
- chairlift — a series of chairs suspended from a power-driven cable for conveying people, esp skiers, up a mountain
- chairside — Relating to activities that happen next to the dental chair during treatment.
- chalazion — a small cyst on the eyelid resulting from chronic inflammation of a meibomian gland
- chaliapin — Fyodor Ivanovich (ˈfjɔdər iˈvanəvitʃ). 1873–1938, Russian operatic bass singer
- chalkpits — Plural form of chalkpit.
- chalkrail — a troughlike molding or strip holding chalk, erasers, etc., under a blackboard.
- chalutzim — halutz.
- 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.
- champaign — an expanse of open level or gently undulating country
- champians — Plural form of champian.
- champions — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of champion.
- champlain — Samuel de (samyɛl də). ?1567–1635, French explorer; founder of Quebec (1608) and governor of New France (1633–35)
- chance it — take a chance or risk
- chanciest — Superlative form of chancy.
- chancroid — a soft venereal ulcer, esp of the male genitals, caused by infection with the bacillus Haemophilus ducreyi
- chantilly — a town in N France, near the Forest of Chantilly formerly famous for lace and porcelain. Pop: 10 902 (1999)
- chantlike — Resembling a chant.
- chantries — Plural form of chantry.
- chapattis — Plural form of chapatti.
- chapiters — Plural form of chapiter.
- chaplains — Plural form of chaplain.
- chaprassi — an office worker or doorman
- chapstick — a cylinder of a substance for preventing or soothing chapped lips
- char-ring — to do (housework, odd jobs, or chores); clean or repair.
- charbroil — to grill (meat) over charcoal
- chargrill — to grill (meat) over charcoal
- chariness — the state of being chary