11-letter words containing h, i, n
- chairperson — The chairperson of a meeting, committee, or organization is the person in charge of it.
- chalcedonic — Of or pertaining to chalcedony.
- challenging — A challenging task or job requires great effort and determination.
- chamberlain — A chamberlain is the person who is in charge of the household affairs of a king, queen, or person of high social rank.
- chameleonic — any of numerous Old World lizards of the family Chamaeleontidae, characterized by the ability to change the color of their skin, very slow locomotion, and a projectile tongue.
- champignons — Plural form of champignon.
- championess — a female champion
- championing — a person who has defeated all opponents in a competition or series of competitions, so as to hold first place: the heavyweight boxing champion.
- champollion — Jean François (ʒɑ̃ frɑ̃swa). 1790–1832, French Egyptologist, who deciphered the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta stone
- chandeliers — Plural form of chandelier.
- chandelling — Present participle of chandelle.
- chandleries — Plural form of chandlery.
- chandlering — the work of a chandler
- chang jiang — a river in E Asia, flowing from the Tibetan plateau through central China to the East China Sea. About 3200 miles (5150 km) long.
- changelings — Plural form of changeling.
- channelbill — a large, gray Australian cuckoo, Scythrops novaehollandiae, with a grooved bill.
- channelised — Simple past tense and past participle of channelise.
- channelized — Simple past tense and past participle of channelize.
- channelling — Architecture, Furniture. ornamentation with flutes or channels.
- chansonnier — a writer of chansons
- chanticleer — a name for a cock, used esp in fables
- chaoticness — The state or quality of being chaotic.
- chaperoning — a person, usually a married or older woman, who, for propriety, accompanies a young unmarried woman in public or who attends a party of young unmarried men and women.
- chaperonins — Plural form of chaperonin.
- characinoid — of or like a characin
- charientism — (rhetoric) A figure of speech wherein a taunting expression is softened by a jest; an insult veiled in grace.
- charlatanic — of or relating to a charlatan
- charpentier — Gustave (ɡystav). 1860–1956, French composer, whose best-known work is the opera Louise (1900)
- chatelaines — Plural form of chatelaine.
- chauvinists — zealous and aggressive patriotism or blind enthusiasm for military glory.
- checkmating — Present participle of checkmate.
- checkpoints — Plural form of checkpoint.
- chelyabinsk — an industrial city in SW Russia; in 2013 a large meteor exploded in an airburst over the city's surrounding district. Pop: 1 067 000 (2005 est)
- chenopodium — (botany) Any member of the flowering plant genus Chenopodium.
- cherishment — the act or process of cherishing
- chernozemic — of or relating to a chernozem
- chessboxing — a sport in which participants contest alternating rounds of chess and boxing, of four and two minutes respectively
- chevrotains — Plural form of chevrotain.
- chewing gum — Chewing gum is a kind of sweet that you can chew for a long time. You do not swallow it.
- chicaneries — Plural form of chicanery.
- chicken out — If someone chickens out of something they were intending to do, they decide not to do it because they are afraid.
- chicken pox — a disease, commonly of children, caused by the varicella zoster virus and characterized by mild headache and fever, malaise, and eruption of blisters on the skin and mucous membranes.
- chicken run — the departure of white residents from South Africa
- chicken-fry — to dip (meat, vegetables, etc.) in batter and fry, usually in deep fat: chicken-fried steak.
- chickenfeed — If you think that an amount of money is so small it is hardly worth having or considering, you can say that it is chickenfeed.
- chickenhawk — Also called hen hawk. (not used scientifically) any of various hawks said to prey on poultry.
- chickenhead — (slang, hip-hop, derogatory) A woman who readily performs fellatio; by extension, an unintelligent and promiscuous woman.
- chickenshit — If you say that someone or something is chickenshit, you mean that they are worthless.
- chieftaincy — the chief of a clan or a tribe.
- chieftainry — the area governed by a chieftain