5 Letter Words That Start With CHI

child

Noun : (broadly) A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).

Noun : (pediatrics, sometimes, in a stricter sense) A kid aged 1 to 11 years, whereas neonates are aged 0 to 1 month, infants are aged 1 month to 12 months, and adolescents are aged 12 years to 18 years.

Noun : (with possessive) One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; one's offspring; a son or daughter.

china

Noun : A nation or civilization occupying the country around the Yellow, Yangtze, and Pearl Rivers in East Asia, taken as a whole under its various dynasties.

Noun : The principal state in this country, including (historical) an empire under various dynasties and (since 1949) the People's Republic of China.

Noun : Synonym of mainland China.

chide

Verb : (transitive) To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.

Verb : (intransitive, obsolete) To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.

chief

Noun : A leader or head of a group of people, organisation, etc.

Noun : (heraldry) The top part of a shield or escutcheon; more specifically, an ordinary consisting of the upper part of the field cut off by a horizontal line, generally occupying the top third.

Noun : The principal part or top of anything.

chill

Noun : A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.

Noun : A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness.

Noun : An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.

chism

Noun : A surname.

chime

Noun : (music) A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (e.g. a tubular metal bar) or actually a bell. Often used in the plural to refer to the set: the chimes.

Noun : An individual ringing component of such a set.

Noun : A small bell or other ringing or tone-making device as a component of some other device.

chili

Noun : (countable) The pungent, spicy fresh or dried fruit of any of several cultivated varieties of capsicum peppers, used in cooking.

Noun : (uncountable) Powdered chili pepper, used as a spice or flavouring in cooking.

Noun : (Indian Chinese cuisine) A spicy stew of chicken or paneer, capsicum and onion, eaten as an appetizer.

chile

Noun : A country in South America. Official name: Republic of Chile. Capital and largest city: Santiago.

Noun : (US, regional) Alternative form of chili (a chili pepper). [(countable) The pungent, spicy fresh or dried fruit of any of several cultivated varieties of capsicum peppers, used in cooking.]

Noun : (Southern US, African-American Vernacular) Pronunciation spelling of child. [(broadly) A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).]

chick

Noun : A young bird.

Noun : A young chicken.

Noun : (dated, endearing) A young child.

chips

Noun : (slang) A carpenter.

Noun : Traditional nickname for someone whose surname is Carpenter.

Noun : (Internet) Acronym of cookies having independent partitioned state.

chive

Noun : A perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, related to the onion.

Noun : (in the plural) The leaves of this plant used as a herb.

Noun : (obsolete) The style and stigma of a flower, especially saffron.

chink

Noun : A narrow opening such as a fissure or crack.

Noun : A narrow beam or patch of light admitted by such an opening.

Noun : A chip or dent in something metallic.

chino

Noun : A coarse cotton fabric commonly used to make trousers and uniforms.

Noun : A surname.

Noun : A city in San Bernardino County, California, United States.

chirp

Noun : A short, sharp or high note or noise, as of a bird or insect.

Noun : (radar, sonar, radio telescopy etc.) A pulse of signal whose frequency sweeps through a band of frequencies for the duration of the pulse.

Verb : (intransitive) To make a short, sharp, cheerful note, as of small birds or crickets.

chine

Noun : The top of a ridge.

Noun : The spine of an animal.

Noun : A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.

ching

Noun : A pair of small bowl-shaped finger cymbals made of thick and heavy bronze, used in the music of Thailand and Cambodia.

Noun : (countable) A ringing sound, as of metal or glass being struck.

Noun : (uncountable, slang) Money (from the sound of a cash register ringing up an amount).

chico

Noun : (Canada, US, informal) A Latin-American boy; a Latino.

Noun : The fruit of the sapodilla, Manilkara zapota.

Noun : (American Southwest, chiefly in the plural) Sweet corn that has been cooked and dried on the cob.

chint

Noun : Obsolete form of chintz. [A painted or stained calico fabric, originally produced in India, and known for its brightly colored designs.]

chica

Noun : (Canada, US, informal) A Latin-American girl; a Latina.

Noun : An orange-red dyestuff obtained by boiling the leaves of the bignonia.

Noun : A surname.

chimp

Noun : (offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.

Verb : (informal, often derogatory) To review each image on a digital camera after it is taken.

Verb : (informal, often derogatory) To get very excited when showing images on a digital camera.

chiro

Noun : (informal, countable) A chiropractor.

Noun : (informal, uncountable) Chiropractic.

chivy

Noun : Alternative form of chevy [(countable) A hunt or pursuit; a chase.]

Verb : Alternative form of chevy [(transitive) To chase or hunt.]

chirk

Verb : (intransitive, especially as "chirk up") To become happier.

Verb : (transitive, especially as "chirk up") To make happier.

Verb : To make the sound of a bird; to chirp.

chirm

Noun : A din or confused noise, as of many voices, birdsong, etc.

Verb : (obsolete) To chirp or to make a mournful cry, as a bird does.

chimb

Noun : Alternative form of chine (“edge of a cask; part of a ship; etc.”) [The top of a ridge.]

chich

Noun : The chickpea.

Noun : (UK, slang) Short for Chichester. [A city in West Sussex, England.]

chiao

Noun : A surname from Chinese.

chirr

Verb : (intransitive) To make the prolonged trilling sound of an insect (e.g. a grasshopper, a cicada).

Noun : The trilled sound made by an insect.

chian

Adjective : Of or pertaining to Chios, an island in the Aegean Sea.

Noun : A native or inhabitant of Chios.

chios

Noun : One of the Aegean islands of Greece.

Noun : The capital of the island of Chios, Greece.

chien

Noun : A surname.

chita

Noun : A city, the administrative center of Zabaykalsky Krai, Siberia, Russia.

chiru

Noun : The Tibetan antelope, Pantholops hodgsonii.

chilo

chiel

Noun : Alternative form of chield [(Scotland) A man; a fellow, chap.]

chiba

Noun : A prefecture of Japan.

Noun : The capital city of Chiba Prefecture, Japan.

Noun : A surname from Japanese.

chits

Noun : A child or babe; a young, small, or insignificant person or animal.

Noun : A pert or sassy young person, especially a young woman.

Noun : The embryonic growing bud of a plant

chiri

chins

Noun : The bottom of a face, (specifically) the typically jutting jawline below the mouth.

Noun : (slang, US) Talk.

Noun : (slang, Britain) A lie, a falsehood.

chira

Noun : Alternative form of Qira [A county of Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang, China.]

chiff

Noun : (music) The characteristic sound made as part of the attack of certain notes on the organ.

chimu

chigi

chion

chiku

Noun : Alternative form of Cigu [A district of Tainan, Taiwan.]

chier

chiko

chiyo

Noun : A Japanese female given name from Japanese

Noun : A surname from Japanese.

chimo

Noun : (US, prison slang) child molester

chika

Noun : A Japanese female given name from Japanese

chinn

Noun : A surname.

chiai

Noun : Alternative form of Chiayi [A city in southwestern Taiwan.]

chiun

chite

chics

Adjective : Elegant, stylish.

Noun : (chiefly uncountable) Good form; style.

Noun : (countable) A person with (a particular type of) chic.

chirt

chibi

Noun : (countable, anime, manga) A child-like character with exaggerated features, particularly in anime.

Noun : (uncountable, anime, manga) A style of cartooning in which the characters are drawn to be very small and cute.

Noun : A county-level city in Xianning, Hubei, China.

chiva

Noun : (US, slang) heroin

chila

Noun : a city and is the divisional capital of Diamer District located in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, on the Indus River.

chima

Noun : A surname.

chipa

Noun : A kind of baked cheese-flavoured roll eaten in Paraguay.

chias

Noun : A Mexican sage grown for its edible seeds, Salvia hispanica.

Noun : Salvia columbariae, a sage with similar seeds, native to the southwestern US and northwestern Mexico.

Noun : A surname.

chirl

Verb : (Scotland, intransitive) To emit a low sound; to warble.

Noun : (Scotland) A kind of musical warble.

chiss

Noun : (UK, law enforcement) Initialism of covert human intelligence source.

chiny

chiot

Noun : A native or inhabitant of Chios.

chibs

Noun : (Scotland, Tyneside, slang) A shiv (makeshift knife).

Verb : (Scotland, Tyneside, slang) To shiv (stab).

chike

chivo

chips

Noun : A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.

Noun : A damaged area of a surface where a small piece has been broken off.

Noun : (games, gambling) A token used in place of cash.

chiou

Noun : A surname.

chir-

chirs

Noun : a freshwater whitefish species that lives in the Arctic-draining basins of Eurasia and North America, also known as schokur or broad whitefish

chito

chiat

chivs

Noun : The scooped out portion at the end of a stave used to make a cask, where the croze will be incised.

Noun : A cooper's tool used to make that section.

Noun : Alternative form of shiv [A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush).]

chice

chida

chidi

chini

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chipo

chi fu

chiné

Adjective : (textiles) Mottled in appearance, from the warp being dyed in different colours, or from threads of different colours twisted together.

chipp

Noun : (countable) A fragment broken off a larger material.

Noun : (uncountable) The act of breaking something into small fragments, or of removing fragments from pottery etc.

Noun : A hamlet in Buckland parish, East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL3532).

chist

Noun : Pronunciation spelling of chest. [A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.]

chibo

chifa

Noun : culinary tradition based on Chinese Cantonese elements fused with traditional Peruvian ingredients and traditions.

chisa

Noun : A Japanese female given name from Japanese

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