7-letter words containing che
- chengdu — a city in S central China, capital of Sichuan province. Pop: 3 478 000 (2005 est)
- chengtu — Chengdu
- chenier — André (Marie de) (ɑ̃dre). 1762–94, French poet; his work was influenced by the ancient Greek elegiac poets. He was guillotined during the French Revolution
- chennai — a port in SE India, capital of Tamil Nadu, on the Bay of Bengal: founded in 1639 by the English East India Company as Fort St George; traditional burial place of St Thomas; university (1857). Pop: 4 216 268 (2001)
- chequer — any of the marbles, pegs, or other pieces used in the game of Chinese chequers
- cheques — Plural form of cheque.
- chereme — any of a small set of elements, analogous to the phoneme in speech, proposed as the basic structural units by which the signs of a sign language are represented, and including the handshapes, hand movements, and locations of the hands in relation to the body employed in a particular sign language.
- cherish — If you cherish something such as a hope or a pleasant memory, you keep it in your mind for a long period of time.
- cheroot — A cheroot is a cigar with both ends cut flat.
- cherrie — Obsolete spelling of cherry.
- cherubs — Plural form of cherub.
- chervil — Chervil is a herb that tastes like aniseed.
- cheskey — a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of Czech extraction, usually an immigrant.
- chesnut — Obsolete spelling of chestnut.
- chessel — a mould used in cheese-making
- chesses — a game played on a chessboard by two people who maneuver sixteen pieces each according to rules governing movement of the six kinds of pieces (pawn, rook, knight, bishop, queen, king), the object being to bring the opponent's king into checkmate.
- chested — having a (specified kind of) chest or thorax
- chester — a city in NW England, administrative centre of the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester, on the River Dee: intact surrounding walls; 16th- and 17th-century double-tier shops. Pop: 80 121 (2001)
- chetnik — a Serbian nationalist belonging to a group that fought against the Turks before World War I and engaged in guerrilla warfare during both World Wars
- chetrum — a Bhutanese unit of money, worth one hundredth of a ngultrum
- chevies — Plural form of chevy.
- cheviot — a large British breed of sheep reared for its wool
- chevron — A chevron is a V shape.
- chew up — If you chew food up, you chew it until it is completely crushed or soft.
- chewers — Plural form of chewer.
- chewier — Comparative form of chewy.
- chewing — Present participle of chew.
- chewink — a North American bird, Pipilo erythrophthalmus
- cinched — a strong girth used on stock saddles, having a ring at each end to which a strap running from the saddle is secured.
- cincher — Something that cinches as in holds and fastens, such as a belt or corset.
- cinches — Plural form of cinch.
- cliched — If you describe something as clichéd, you mean that it has been said, done, or used many times before, and is boring or untrue.
- clicher — a trite, stereotyped expression; a sentence or phrase, usually expressing a popular or common thought or idea, that has lost originality, ingenuity, and impact by long overuse, as sadder but wiser, or strong as an ox.
- cliches — Plural form of cliche.
- cloches — Plural form of cloche.
- coached — Simple past tense and past participle of coach.
- coachee — a person who receives training from a coach, esp in business or office practice
- coacher — a person who coaches; a coach.
- coaches — a large, horse-drawn, four-wheeled carriage, usually enclosed.
- cochere — Used only in the term porte-cochere.
- conched — Simple past tense and past participle of conch.
- conches — Plural form of conch.
- couched — a piece of furniture for seating from two to four people, typically in the form of a bench with a back, sometimes having an armrest at one or each end, and partly or wholly upholstered and often fitted with springs, tailored cushions, skirts, etc.; sofa.
- couchee — a reception held late at night, usually by the nobility or royalty
- coucher — the worker who transfers sheets of wet pulp to the couch.
- couches — Plural form of couch.
- courche — (Scotland) A square piece of linen formerly worn by women instead of a cap; a kerchief.
- creches — Plural form of creche.
- crochet — Crochet is a way of making cloth out of cotton or wool by using a needle with a small hook at the end.
- curchef — a woman's plain cap or kerchief