9-letter words starting with ch
- checkmark — a tick
- checkmate — to thwart or render powerless
- checkouts — Plural form of checkout.
- checkrail — (in a window sash) a meeting rail, especially one closing against the corresponding rail with a diagonal or rabbeted overlap.
- checkrein — a rein usually running from the bit to the saddle, used to keep a horse from lowering its head
- checkroom — a place at a railway station, airport, etc, where luggage may be left for a small charge with an attendant for safekeeping
- checksums — Plural form of checksum.
- cheechako — a newcomer to the state of Alaska
- cheekbone — Your cheekbones are the two bones in your face just below your eyes.
- cheekiest — Superlative form of cheeky.
- cheerfull — Archaic form of cheerful.
- cheeriest — Superlative form of cheery.
- cheerlead — to lead a crowd in formal cheers at sports events
- cheerless — Cheerless places or weather are dull and depressing.
- cheese it — to stop; desist.
- cheesevat — (in cheese making) a vat in which curds are formed and cut
- cheesiest — of or like cheese: a cheesy aroma; a cheesy taste.
- cheilitis — an inflammation of the lip or lips
- cheilosis — Inflammation of one or both of the corners of the mouth.
- chelating — Having the ability to undergo chelation.
- chelation — the process by which a chelate is formed
- chelators — Plural form of chelator.
- chelicera — one of a pair of appendages on the head of spiders and other arachnids: often modified as food-catching claws
- cheliform — shaped like a chela; pincer-like
- chelonian — any reptile of the order Chelonia, including the tortoises and turtles, in which most of the body is enclosed in a protective bony capsule
- chemicals — the commercial production and sale of chemical products
- chemisorb — to take up (a substance) by chemisorption
- chemist's — a chemist's shop
- chemistry — Chemistry is the scientific study of the structure of substances and of the way that they react with other substances.
- chemitype — an obsolete chemical process by which a relief impression was obtained from an engraving or etching
- chemitypy — the process of chemitype
- chemokine — a type of protein produced during inflammation that activates white blood cells
- chemonite — a solution consisting of copper hydroxide, arsenic trioxide, ammonia, acetic acid, and water: used as a wood preservative.
- chemostat — an apparatus for growing bacterial cultures at a constant rate by controlling the supply of nutrient medium
- chempaduk — an evergreen moraceous tree, Artocarpus champeden (or A. integer), of Malaysia, similar to the jackfruit
- chemtrail — A contrail consisting of chemicals or biological agents deliberately sprayed at high altitudes, according to certain conspiracy theories.
- chengchow — Zhengzhou
- chennault — Claire Lee [klair] /klɛər/ (Show IPA), 1890–1958, U.S. Air Force general.
- cheongsam — a straight dress, usually of silk or cotton, with a stand-up collar and a slit in one side of the skirt, worn by Chinese women
- chequable — (finance, of an account) On which cheques can be drawn.
- chequered — If a person or organization has had a chequered career or history, they have had a varied past with both good and bad periods.
- cheralite — a rare monazite mineral consisting of thorium and calcium
- cherbourg — a port in NW France, on the English Channel. Pop: 25 370 (1999)
- cheremiss — a member of an Ugrian people of the Volga region, esp of the Mari El Republic
- cherenkov — Pavel Alekseyevich (ˈpavɪl alɪkˈsjejɪvitʃ). 1904–90, Soviet physicist: noted for work on the effects produced by high-energy particles: shared Nobel prize for physics 1958
- cherimoya — a deciduous shrub or small tree, native to the Andean highlands, which produces an oval fruit with cream-coloured flesh
- cherished — clung to, esp when fulfilment is unlikely
- cherisher — to hold or treat as dear; feel love for: to cherish one's native land.
- cherishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cherish.
- cherkassy — city & port in central Ukraine, on the Dnepr River: pop. 302,000