9-letter words containing h, i, g
- ching-t'u — Pure Land.
- chinglish — written or spoken English that is influenced by Chinese vocabulary and grammatical structure and used primarily by native speakers of Chinese
- chinkiang — Older Spelling. Zhenjiang.
- chippings — Wood chippings or stone chippings are small pieces of wood or stone which are used, for example, to cover surfaces such as paths or roads.
- chiragric — a person who suffers from chiagra
- chirology — Palm reading.
- chirpsing — Present participle of chirpse.
- chirurgie — (archaic) surgery.
- chiseling — a wedgelike tool with a cutting edge at the end of the blade, often made of steel, used for cutting or shaping wood, stone, etc.
- chitlings — the small intestine of swine, especially when prepared as food.
- chivvying — Present participle of chivvy.
- chiyogami — a type of highly decorated, colourful craft paper used for origami
- choirgirl — a girl who sings in a church choir
- chokingly — in a strangling, suffocating, or choking manner
- chongqing — a river port in SW China, capital of Chongqing municipality (traditionally in Sichuan province) at the confluence of the Yangtze and Jialing rivers: site of a city since the 3rd millennium bc; wartime capital of China (1938–45); major trade centre for W China. Pop: 4 975 000 (2005 est)
- choplogic — excessively complicated argument
- chortling — to chuckle gleefully.
- chorusing — Present participle of chorus.
- chu kiang — Zhu Jiang.
- chuckling — Present participle of chuckle.
- chungking — Chongqing
- churching — the act of bringing someone, esp a woman after childbirth, to church for special ceremonies
- churnings — Plural form of churning.
- ciphering — calculating
- clenching — Present participle of clench.
- cliffhang — (of a serial or film) to end on a note of suspense
- clinching — Present participle of clinch.
- clingfish — any small marine teleost fish of the family Gobiesocidae, having a flattened elongated body with a sucking disc beneath the head for clinging to rocks, etc
- clothings — Plural form of clothing.
- clutching — to hatch (chickens).
- cockfight — a fight between two gamecocks fitted with sharp metal spurs
- cognitech — (company) A French software company specialising in artificial intelligence.
- cohousing — a type of housing with some shared facilities
- coliphage — a bacteriophage
- copyfight — the conflict between copyright holders and other individuals over the use, distribution, and replication of copyright materials
- copyright — If someone has copyright on a piece of writing or music, it is illegal to reproduce or perform it without their permission.
- coshering — Present participle of cosher.
- couchings — the act of a person or thing that couches.
- cowhiding — Present participle of cowhide.
- crouching — to stoop or bend low.
- crunching — to crush with the teeth; chew with a crushing noise.
- dashingly — In a dashing manner.
- dashlight — a light illuminating the dashboard of an automobile, esp at night
- dawnlight — The light of dawn.
- 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
- degarnish — to remove ornamentation from (something)
- dehorning — Present participle of dehorn.
- dehulling — to remove the hulls from (beans, seeds, etc.); hull.
- delighted — If you are delighted, you are extremely pleased and excited about something.