6-letter words starting with ch
- chinks — Plural form of chink.
- chinky — Full of chinks, laden with small cracks or openings.
- chinny — Having a prominent chin.
- chino- — of or relating to China
- chinos — Chinos are casual, loose trousers made from cotton.
- chintz — Chintz is a cotton fabric decorated with flowery patterns.
- chip-8 — (language, games) A low-level interpretive language (really a high-level machine code) developed at RCA in the late 1970s for video games on computers using RCA's CDP1802 processor. It could also be used on the DREAM 6800.
- chippy — A chippy is the same as a chip shop.
- chirac — Jacques (René) (ʒɑk). born 1932, French Gaullist politician: president of France (1995–2007); prime minister (1974–76 and 1986–88); mayor of Paris (1977–95)
- chiral — designating or of an asymmetrical form, as a molecule, that cannot be superimposed on its mirror image
- chiro- — indicating the hand; of or by means of the hand
- chiron — a wise and kind centaur who taught many great heroes in their youth, including Achilles, Actaeon, and Jason
- chiros — the ladyfish, Elops saurus.
- chirps — Plural form of chirp.
- chirpy — If you describe a person or their behaviour as chirpy, you mean they are very cheerful and lively.
- chirre — (obsolete) To coo like a pigeon.
- chirrs — Plural form of chirr.
- chisel — A chisel is a tool that has a long metal blade with a sharp edge at the end. It is used for cutting and shaping wood and stone.
- chital — axis deer.
- chitin — a polysaccharide that is the principal component of the exoskeletons of arthropods and of the bodies of fungi
- chiton — (in ancient Greece and Rome) a loose woollen tunic worn knee length by men and full length by women
- chitty — A small note, such as a pass or voucher slip; a chit.
- chiusi — a town in central Italy, in Tuscany; Etruscan tombs.
- chives — Chives are the long thin hollow green leaves of a herb with purple flowers. Chives are cut into small pieces and added to food to give it a flavour similar to onions.
- chivvy — If you chivvy someone, you keep telling them to do something that they do not want to do.
- chlor- — chloro-
- choana — a nasal opening situated towards the back of the nasal cavity in vertebrates
- choate — Rufus1799-1859; U.S. lawyer
- choccy — a chocolate
- chocks — Plural form of chock.
- choice — If there is a choice of things, there are several of them and you can choose the one you want.
- choicy — Fastidious; choosy; discriminating.
- choirs — Plural form of choir.
- choise — Obsolete spelling of choice.
- choked — If you say something in a choked voice or if your voice is choked with emotion, your voice does not have its full sound, because you are upset or frightened.
- choker — A choker is a necklace or band of material that fits very closely round a woman's neck.
- chokes — the act or sound of choking.
- chokey — (dated, British) prison.
- chokra — a young male
- chokri — a girl or young woman
- chole- — indicating bile or gall
- cholee — a short-sleeved blouse or bodice, often one exposing part of the midriff, worn by Hindu women in India.
- choler — anger or ill humour
- cholic — Of or pertaining to bile.
- cholis — Plural form of choli.
- cholla — any of several spiny cacti of the genus Opuntia that grow in the southwestern US and Mexico and have cylindrical stem segments
- cholo- — chole-
- cholon — a city in S Vietnam: a suburb of Ho Chi Minh City
- chomps — Plural form of chomp.
- chonju — a city in SW South Korea: centre of large rice-growing region. Pop: 643 000 (2005 est)