9-letter words containing s, h, e, c
- 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.
- chewiness — the condition of necessitating chewing or of being difficult to chew
- chi meson — a meson with a mass 6687 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 1.5 X 10 -20 seconds.
- chic sale — an outside privy.
- chickpeas — Plural form of chickpea.
- chiefless — having no ruler or leader
- chiefship — the post or situation of a chief
- childless — Someone who is childless has no children.
- childness — the nature or character of a child
- childrens — (intentionally incorrect, nonstandard) Plural form of child.
- chilliest — Superlative form of chilly.
- chillness — The state of being chilly.
- chimaeras — Plural form of chimaera.
- chimerism — a medical condition in which a person develops from two distinct embryos that could possess two genetically distinct sets of cells
- chimineas — Plural form of chiminea.
- chin rest — a device fixed to the top of a violin or viola to provide a firm rest for the player's chin.
- 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
- chinese's — the standard language of China, based on the speech of Beijing; Mandarin.
- chipheads — Plural form of chiphead.
- chipotles — Plural form of chipotle.
- chisel in — to force oneself upon others without being asked or welcomed
- chiselers — Plural form of chiseler.
- 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.
- chiselled — If you say that someone, usually a man, has chiselled features, you mean that their face has a strong, clear bone structure.
- chiseller — a person who uses a chisel
- chitinase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that hydrolyzes chitin.
- chlamydes — Plural form of chlamys.
- chlorates — Plural form of chlorate.
- chlorides — Plural form of chloride.
- chlorites — Plural form of chlorite.
- chokeslam — A wrestling move in which someone is picked up by their neck and is driven into the mat.
- cholecyst — the gallbladder
- choosable — to select from a number of possibilities; pick by preference: She chose Sunday for her departure.
- choose up — to decide on the opposing players, as for an impromptu ballgame
- chop suey — Chop suey is a Chinese-style dish that consists of meat and vegetables that have been stewed together.
- chophouse — a restaurant specializing in steaks, grills, chops, etc
- 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.
- chordless — Lacking chords.
- chordwise — in the direction of an aerofoil chord
- chorister — A chorister is a singer in a church choir.
- chorussed — Simple past tense and past participle of chorus.
- christens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of christen.
- christine — a feminine name: dim. Chris, Chrissie, Tina; var. Christina, Christy
- chromates — Plural form of chromate.
- chubbiest — Superlative form of chubby.
- chudskoye — Lakelake on the Estonian-Russian border: with its S extension, Lake Pskov, c. 1,400 sq mi (3,626 sq km)