5 Letter Words That Start With CHI

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 : (ambitransitive) To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.

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.

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.

chief

Noun : The leader or head of a tribe, organisation, business unit, or other group.

Noun : (uncountable, only with "in") Headship, the status of being a chief or leader.

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.

chimo

Noun : (US, prison slang) A child molester.

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.

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 youth aged 1 to 9 years, whereas neonates are aged 0 to 1 month, infants are aged 1 to 12 months, and adolescents are aged 10 to 20 years.

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

chick

Noun : A young bird.

Noun : A young chicken.

Noun : (dated, endearing) A young child.

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.

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; to chitter; to twitter.

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.

chirm

Noun : (obsolete) 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.

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.

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.

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.

chirl

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

Noun : (Scotland) A kind of musical warble.

china

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

Noun : A large country in East Asia, occupying the region around the Yellow, Yangtze, and Pearl Rivers; the People's Republic of China, since 1949.

Noun : Synonym of mainland China.

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

chivy

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

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

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.

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.

chive

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

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

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

chian

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

Noun : A native or inhabitant of Chios.

chins

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

Noun : (slang, US) Talk.

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

chiro

Noun : (informal, countable) A chiropractor.

Noun : (informal, uncountable) Chiropractic.

chiel

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

chigi

Noun : (architecture) In Japanese architecture, a V-shaped finial used mainly on Shinto shrine roofs.

chism

Noun : A surname.

Noun : (dialectal) A shoot or sprout; a bud.

Verb : (dialectal) To sprout, bud, or germinate.

chibi

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

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

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

chips

Noun : (slang) A carpenter.

Noun : Traditional nickname for someone whose surname is Carpenter.

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

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.

chios

Noun : One of the Aegean islands of Greece.

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

chilo

chiba

Noun : A prefecture of Japan.

Noun : The capital city of Chiba Prefecture, Japan.

Noun : A surname from Japanese.

chimb

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

chita

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

chiao

Noun : A surname from Chinese.

Noun : A Taoist ritual of cosmic renewal.

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

chich

Noun : The chickpea.

Noun : (UK, slang) Short for Chichester. [A cathedral city and civil parish in West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU8504).]

chiru

Noun : The Tibetan antelope, Pantholops hodgsonii.

chien

Noun : A surname.

chimu

chiai

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

chibs

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

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

chiff

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

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chint

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

chira

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

chiun

chika

Noun : A female given name from Japanese.

chima

Noun : A surname.

chinn

Noun : A surname.

chiot

Noun : A native or inhabitant of Chios.

chiyo

Noun : A female given name from Japanese.

Noun : A surname from Japanese.

chipa

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

chir-

chiva

Noun : (US, slang) heroin

chiem

Noun : A surname.

chiku

Noun : Alternative form of chikoo (“sapodilla”) [(India) Synonym of sapodilla (tree and fruit)]

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

chiou

Noun : A surname.

chite

chiti

Noun : A surname from Italian.

chi fu

chias

chice

chics

Adjective : Elegant, stylish.

Noun : (chiefly uncountable) Good form; style.

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

chike

chiko

Noun : a German 2008 film written and directed by Özgür Yıldırım.

chila

Noun : a city in Pakistani-administered Gilgit–Baltistan in the disputed Kashmir region.

chion

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chiri

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

chist

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

chito

chibo

chisa

Noun : A female given name from Japanese.

chiya

chi li

chia i

chiat

chibe

chida

Noun : Chida (written: lit.

chidi

Noun : Chìdì ("Red Deity" or "Red Emperor") or Chìshén ("Red God"), also known as the Nándì ("South Deity") or Nányuèdàdì ("Great Deity of the Southern Peak"), as a human was Shénnóng ("Farmer God" or "Plowing God"), who is also the same as Yándì ("Flame Deity" or "Fiery Deity"), a function occupied by different gods and god-kings in mytho-history.

chier

chifa

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

chiga

chiki

chimi

Noun : Clipping of chimichanga. [(US) A deep-fried wet burrito]

Noun : Clipping of chimichurri. [(uncountable) A sauce and marinade for grilled meat originally from Argentina, made from chopped parsley or cilantro, garlic, salt, pepper, onion, and paprika with olive oil.]

chims

Adjective : Alternative form of cheem [(Singapore, informal) Deep; profound; complex.]

chipp

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

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).

chirt

chise

chiss

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

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).]

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