9-letter words containing k, h
- chick lit — Chick lit is modern fiction about the lives and romantic problems of young women, usually written by young women.
- 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
- chickasaw — a member of a Native American people of N Mississippi
- chickasha — a city in central Oklahoma.
- chickened — Simple past tense and past participle of chicken.
- chickling — a very small chick
- chickpeas — Plural form of chickpea.
- chickweed — Chickweed is a plant with small leaves and white flowers which grows close to the ground.
- childlike — You describe someone as childlike when they seem like a child in their character, appearance, or behaviour.
- chinkapin — chinquapin
- chinkiang — Older Spelling. Zhenjiang.
- chinookan — of the Chinooks or their language or culture
- chinovnik — an office-holder or bureaucrat serving in the Tsarist Russian government
- chipmaker — a manufacturer of electronic chips.
- chipmunks — Plural form of chipmunk.
- chockfull — Alternative form of chock full.
- choke off — To choke off financial growth means to restrict or control the rate at which a country's economy can grow.
- chokeable — to stop the breath of by squeezing or obstructing the windpipe; strangle; stifle.
- chokebore — a shotgun bore that becomes narrower towards the muzzle so that the shot is not scattered
- chokecoil — a type of electronic inductor
- chokedamp — blackdamp
- chokehold — the act of holding a person's neck across the windpipe, esp from behind using one arm
- chokeslam — A wrestling move in which someone is picked up by their neck and is driven into the mat.
- chokingly — in a strangling, suffocating, or choking manner
- chomskyan — of or relating to Noam Chomsky or his linguistic theories, especially to transformational-generative grammar.
- chop mark — a notch or other mark made in a coin to indicate verification of its authenticity, especially by a banker or merchant in the Far East during the 18th or 19th centuries.
- chopblock — butcher-block.
- chopsocky — a genre of martial arts film containing superfluous violence
- chopsteak — chopped steak.
- chopstick — Chopsticks are a pair of thin sticks which people in China and the Far East use to eat their food.
- chowkidar — (in India) a watchman or gatekeeper.
- chromakey — (in colour television) a special effect in which a coloured background can be eliminated and a different background substituted
- chu kiang — Zhu Jiang.
- chuck off — to abuse or make fun of
- chuck out — If you chuck something out, you throw it away, because you do not need it or cannot use it.
- chuckhole — a pothole
- chuckling — Present participle of chuckle.
- chudskoye — Lakelake on the Estonian-Russian border: with its S extension, Lake Pskov, c. 1,400 sq mi (3,626 sq km)
- chukotian — a group of genetically related languages spoken on the Chukchi and Kamchatka peninsulas in eastern Siberia, including Chukchi, Kamchadal, and Koryak.
- chungking — Chongqing
- churnmilk — buttermilk
- clackdish — a dish carried by a beggar
- clerkship — The position or status of a clerk, especially in the legal profession.
- clunkhead — a stupid or foolish person.
- coachwork — the design and manufacture of car bodies
- cockahoop — Alternative form of cock-a-hoop.
- cockfight — a fight between two gamecocks fitted with sharp metal spurs
- cockhorse — rocking horse