7-Letter Words Containing: C,H,O,N

• a sheer fabric of silk or rayon

• tiny fishes usually canned or salted; used for hors d'oeuvres or as seasoning in sauces

• small herring-like plankton-eating fishes often canned whole or as paste; abundant in tropical waters worldwide

• a condition caused by blocking the airways to the lungs (as with food or swelling of the larynx)

• the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe

• causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat

• any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany (`hock' is British usage)

• tarsal joint of the hind leg of hoofed mammals; corresponds to the human ankle

• leave as a guarantee in return for money

• disable by cutting the hock

• (Yiddish) a gullible simpleton more to be pitied than despised

• a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback

• a member of an important North American Indian people who controlled the mouth of the Columbia river; they were organized into settlements rather than tribes

• a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies

• a Penutian language spoken by the Chinook

• pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon

• large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning