Words That Start With: CHIN

• a brightly printed and glazed cotton fabric

• embarrassingly stingy

• having narrow opening filled

• bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood

• An informal conversation, usually about everyday matters; a chat, a gossip.

• To chat, to gossip.

• 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

• (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Chinese descent

• a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall

• a short light metallic sound

• make or emit a high sound

• fill the chinks of, as with caulking

• make cracks or chinks in

• cut of meat or fish including at least part of the backbone

• backbone of an animal

• cut through the backbone of an animal

• the protruding part of the lower jaw

• Kamarupan languages spoken in western Burma and Bangladesh and easternmost India

• raise oneself while hanging from one's hands until one's chin is level with the support bar