5-letter words starting with c
- cheek — Your cheeks are the sides of your face below your eyes.
- cheem — (Singapore,informal) Deep; profound; complex.
- cheep — the short weak high-pitched cry of a young bird; chirp
- cheer — When people cheer, they shout loudly to show their approval or to encourage someone who is doing something such as taking part in a game.
- cheez — (Indian Classical music) composition.
- chefs — Plural form of chef.
- cheju — a volcanic island in the N East China Sea, southwest of Korea: constitutes a province (Cheju-do) of South Korea. Capital: Cheju. Pop: 302 000 (2005 est). Area: 1792 sq km (692 sq miles)
- cheka — the secret police set up in 1917 by the Bolshevik government: reorganized in the Soviet Union in Dec 1922 as the GPU
- cheks — Plural form of chek.
- chela — a large pincer-like claw of such arthropods as the crab and scorpion
- chelp — (esp of women or children) to chatter or speak out of turn
- chem. — chemical
- chemo — Chemo is the same as chemotherapy.
- chemy — (obsolete) alchemy, chemistry (prior to their being properly distinguished).
- cheng — Alternative form of sheng (Chinese wind instrument).
- chere — dear; beloved: used in referring to or addressing a woman or girl.
- cheri — a female given name.
- chert — a microcrystalline form of silica usually occurring as bands or layers of pebbles in sedimentary rock. Formula: SiO2. Varieties include flint, lyddite (Lydian stone)
- ches. — Cheshire
- chess — Chess is a game for two people, played on a chessboard. Each player has 16 pieces, including a king. Your aim is to move your pieces so that your opponent's king cannot escape being taken.
- chest — Your chest is the top part of the front of your body where your ribs, lungs, and heart are.
- cheth — het
- chevy — chivy
- chewa — a member of a Negroid people of Malawi, E Zambia, and N Zimbabwe, related to the Bemba
- chews — Plural form of chew.
- chewy — If food is chewy, it needs to be chewed a lot before it becomes soft enough to swallow.
- chiai — a city on W Taiwan.
- chian — of or relating to Chios
- chiao — a Chinese monetary unit equal to one-tenth of a yuan
- chias — a plant, Salvia columbariae, of the mint family, native to the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having mostly basal, oblong leaves and small blue flowers: the seeds are used as food and as the source of a beverage.
- chiba — an industrial city in central Japan, in SE Honshu on Tokyo Bay. Pop: 880 164 (2002 est)
- chibi — (countable, anime, manga) A child-like character with exaggerated features, particularly in anime.
- chica — a red dye used for colouring the skin produced from the plant Bignonia chica, indigenous to Colombia and Guyana
- chich — (botany) The chickpea.
- chick — A chick is a baby bird.
- chico — greasewood (sense 1)
- chide — If you chide someone, you speak to them angrily because they have done something wicked or foolish.
- chief — The chief of an organization is the person who is in charge of it.
- chiel — a young man; lad
- chiff — (music) The characteristic sound made as part of the attack of certain notes on the organ.
- chil- — chilo-
- child — A child is a human being who is not yet an adult.
- chile — a republic in South America, on the Pacific, with a total length of about 4090 km (2650 miles) and an average width of only 177 km (110 miles): gained independence from Spain in 1818; the government of President Allende (elected 1970) attempted the implementation of Marxist policies within a democratic system until overthrown by a military coup (1973); democracy restored 1988. Chile consists chiefly of the Andes in the east, the Atacama Desert in the north, a central fertile region, and a huge S region of almost uninhabitable mountains, glaciers, fjords, and islands; an important producer of copper, iron ore, nitrates, etc. Language: Spanish. Religion: Roman Catholic majority. Currency: peso. Capital: Santiago. Pop: 17 216 945 (2013 est). Area: 756 945 sq km (292 256 sq miles)
- chili — the dried pod of red pepper, a very hot seasoning
- chill — When you chill something or when it chills, you lower its temperature so that it becomes colder but does not freeze.
- chimb — chime2
- chime — When a bell or a clock chimes, it makes ringing sounds.
- chimo — an exclamation of greeting among Inuit people
- chimp — A chimp is the same as a chimpanzee.
- chimu — a member of an Amerindian people inhabiting the northern coast of Peru and having a highly developed urban culture that lasted until its destruction by the Incas.