9-letter words starting with che
- 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
- chermoula — a marinade used in N African cookery
- chernenko — Konstantin (Ustinovich) (kənstanˈtin). 1911–85, Soviet statesman; general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party (1984–85)
- chernigov — a city in N central Ukraine, on the River Desna: tyres, pianos, consumer goods. Pop: 308 000 (2005 est)
- chernobyl — a town in N Ukraine; site of a nuclear power station accident in 1986
- chernozem — a black soil, rich in humus and carbonates, in cool or temperate semiarid regions, as the grasslands of Russia
- cherokees — a member of an important tribe of North American Indians whose first known center was in the southern Alleghenies and who presently live in North Carolina and Oklahoma.
- cherubini — (Maria) Luigi (Carlo Zenobio Salvatore) (luˈiːdʒi). 1760–1842, Italian composer, noted particularly for his church music and his operas.
- cheruping — Present participle of cherup.
- cherylene — a female given name.
- chess pie — a dessert made of a custardlike mixture of butter, sugar, eggs, etc., baked in a pie shell
- 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.
- chevalier — a member of certain orders of merit, such as the French Legion of Honour
- chevelure — the hazy or misty luminescence encircling a comet or star
- chevening — a mansion and estate in SE England, in western Kent: the official country residence of the British foreign secretary
- chevrette — the skin of a young goat
- chevronel — a narrow chevron, one-half the usual breadth or less.
- chew over — If you chew something over, you keep thinking about it.
- chewiness — the condition of necessitating chewing or of being difficult to chew