9-letter words containing h, e, c, t
- chautemps — Camille [ka-mee-yuh] /kaˈmi yə/ (Show IPA), 1885–1963, French politician: premier 1930, 1933–34, 1937–38.
- cheap out — to take the cheapest option; try to do something as cheaply as possible
- 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.
- 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.
- check out — When you check out of a hotel or clinic where you have been staying, or if someone checks you out, you pay the bill and leave.
- 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.
- checkmate — to thwart or render powerless
- checkouts — Plural form of checkout.
- cheekiest — Superlative form of cheeky.
- cheeriest — Superlative form of cheery.
- cheese it — to stop; desist.
- cheesevat — (in cheese making) a vat in which curds are formed and cut
- cheesiest — of or like cheese: a cheesy aroma; a cheesy taste.
- cheilitis — an inflammation of the lip or lips
- chelating — Having the ability to undergo chelation.
- chelation — the process by which a chelate is formed
- chelators — Plural form of chelator.
- chemist's — a chemist's shop
- chemistry — Chemistry is the scientific study of the structure of substances and of the way that they react with other substances.
- chemitype — an obsolete chemical process by which a relief impression was obtained from an engraving or etching
- chemitypy — the process of chemitype
- chemonite — a solution consisting of copper hydroxide, arsenic trioxide, ammonia, acetic acid, and water: used as a wood preservative.
- chemostat — an apparatus for growing bacterial cultures at a constant rate by controlling the supply of nutrient medium
- 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.
- cheralite — a rare monazite mineral consisting of thorium and calcium
- chess set — a set of 32 chessmen constituting complete sets in two colours, and sometimes including a chess board
- chesstree — (in the 17th and 18th centuries) a wooden fastening with one or more sheaves, attached to the topside of a sailing vessel, through which the windward tack of a course was rove.
- chesticle — (slang, humorous) A (woman's) breast.
- chestnuts — Plural form of chestnut.
- chevrette — the skin of a young goat
- chicalote — a poppy, Argemone platyceras, of the southwestern US and Mexico with prickly leaves and white or yellow flowers
- chieftain — A chieftain is the leader of a tribe.
- chilliest — Superlative form of chilly.
- chiltepin — a variety of chilli pepper, Capsicum annuum, growing wild in Mexico and the south-western United States
- chin rest — a device fixed to the top of a violin or viola to provide a firm rest for the player's chin.
- china tea — China tea is tea made from large dark-green or reddish-brown tea leaves. It is usually drunk without milk or sugar.
- chipotles — Plural form of chipotle.
- chiropter — an animal of the order Chiroptera; a bat
- chitinase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that hydrolyzes chitin.
- chittered — Simple past tense and past participle of chitter.
- chlorates — Plural form of chlorate.
- chlorites — Plural form of chlorite.
- chocolate — Chocolate is a sweet hard food made from cocoa beans. It is usually brown in colour and is eaten as a sweet.
- cholecyst — the gallbladder
- cholelith — a stone formed in the gall bladder by the accumulation of bile constituents
- choluteca — a city in S Honduras.
- chondrite — a stony meteorite consisting mainly of silicate minerals in the form of chondrules
- chopsteak — chopped steak.
- chordates — belonging or pertaining to the phylum Chordata, comprising the true vertebrates and those animals having a notochord, as the lancelets and tunicates.