9-letter words containing h, e, a
- chayefsky — Paddy [pad-ee] /ˈpæd i/ (Show IPA), 1923–1981, U.S. playwright and director.
- cheap out — to take the cheapest option; try to do something as cheaply as possible
- cheapened — Simple past tense and past participle of cheapen.
- cheapener — One who cheapens.
- cheapjack — a peddler, especially of inferior articles.
- cheapness — The state of being cheap.
- 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.
- chechaquo — Alternative form of cheechako.
- checkable — capable of being checked, as by inquiry or verification: The fact is checkable from available records.
- checkback — a check or verification of a process, tabulation, etc., already completed.
- checkmark — a tick
- checkmate — to thwart or render powerless
- checkrail — (in a window sash) a meeting rail, especially one closing against the corresponding rail with a diagonal or rabbeted overlap.
- cheechako — a newcomer to the state of Alaska
- cheerlead — to lead a crowd in formal cheers at sports events
- cheesevat — (in cheese making) a vat in which curds are formed and cut
- chelating — Having the ability to undergo chelation.
- chelation — the process by which a chelate is formed
- chelators — Plural form of chelator.
- chelicera — one of a pair of appendages on the head of spiders and other arachnids: often modified as food-catching claws
- chelonian — any reptile of the order Chelonia, including the tortoises and turtles, in which most of the body is enclosed in a protective bony capsule
- chemicals — the commercial production and sale of chemical products
- chemostat — an apparatus for growing bacterial cultures at a constant rate by controlling the supply of nutrient medium
- chempaduk — an evergreen moraceous tree, Artocarpus champeden (or A. integer), of Malaysia, similar to the jackfruit
- chemtrail — A contrail consisting of chemicals or biological agents deliberately sprayed at high altitudes, according to certain conspiracy theories.
- chennault — Claire Lee [klair] /klɛər/ (Show IPA), 1890–1958, U.S. Air Force general.
- cheongsam — a straight dress, usually of silk or cotton, with a stand-up collar and a slit in one side of the skirt, worn by Chinese women
- chequable — (finance, of an account) On which cheques can be drawn.
- cheralite — a rare monazite mineral consisting of thorium and calcium
- cherimoya — a deciduous shrub or small tree, native to the Andean highlands, which produces an oval fruit with cream-coloured flesh
- cherkassy — city & port in central Ukraine, on the Dnepr River: pop. 302,000
- chermoula — a marinade used in N African cookery
- chevalier — a member of certain orders of merit, such as the French Legion of Honour
- chiarezza — clarity
- chic sale — an outside privy.
- chicalote — a poppy, Argemone platyceras, of the southwestern US and Mexico with prickly leaves and white or yellow flowers
- chicanery — Chicanery is using cleverness to cheat people.
- chick-pea — Also called garbanzo. a widely cultivated plant, Cicer arietinum, of the legume family, bearing pods containing pealike seeds.
- chickadee — A chickadee is a small North American bird with gray and black feathers.
- chickaree — another name for American red squirrel
- chickpeas — Plural form of chickpea.
- chieftain — A chieftain is the leader of a tribe.
- chiengmai — a town in NW Thailand: teak, silver, silk industries: university (1964). Pop: 182 000 (2005 est)
- childcare — Childcare refers to looking after children, and to the facilities which help parents to do so.
- chillaxed — Simple past tense and past participle of chillax.
- chimaeras — Plural form of chimaera.
- chimaeric — (of a molecule) having two genetically different components
- chimineas — Plural form of chiminea.
- china sea — part of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of China: divided by Taiwan into the East China Sea in the north and the South China Sea in the south