8-letter words containing c, h, a, b
- brancher — a young bird which has left the nest but which is not yet fully able to fly
- branches — a division or subdivision of the stem or axis of a tree, shrub, or other plant.
- branchia — a gill in aquatic animals
- branchus — a son of Apollo, given the power of augury by his father.
- bratchet — a brach or brachet hound
- breached — the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture.
- breacher — a person who breaches something
- broached — Machinery. an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.
- broacher — Machinery. an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.
- bronchia — the ramifications or branches of the bronchi.
- buchanan — George. 1506–82, Scottish historian, who was tutor to Mary, Queen of Scots and James VI; author of History of Scotland (1582)
- by-catch — unwanted fish and other sea animals caught in a fishing net along with the desired kind of fish
- caboched — (of an image of the head of a beast) having an exposed face but a concealed neck
- cabochon — a smooth domed gem, polished but unfaceted
- caboshed — (of an animal, as a deer) shown facing forward without a neck: a stag's head caboshed.
- calabash — a tropical American evergreen tree, Crescentia cujete, that produces large round gourds: family Bignoniaceae
- cash bar — A cash bar is a bar at a party or similar event where guests can buy drinks.
- cash mob — a group of people coordinated to meet and spend money at a local, independent business at a particular time
- cashable — Able to be converted into cash.
- cashback — a discount offered in return for immediate payment
- cashbook — a book in which all receipts and payments of money are entered
- chabasie — Dated form of chabazite.
- chabrier — (Alexis) Emmanuel (emanɥɛl). 1841–94, French composer; noted esp for the orchestral rhapsody España (1883)
- chad box — (hardware) (IBM called this a "chip box") A metal box about the size of a lunchbox (or in some models a large wastebasket), for collecting the chad that accumulated in Iron Age card punches. You had to open the covers of the card punch periodically and empty the chad box. The bit bucket was notionally the equivalent device in the CPU enclosure, which was typically across the room in another great grey-and-blue box.
- chaebols — Plural form of chaebol.
- chambers — a judge's room for hearing cases not taken in open court
- chambery — a city in SE France, in the Alps: skiing centre; former capital of the duchy of Savoy. Pop: 59 188 (2006)
- chambord — a village in N central France: site of a famous Renaissance chateau
- chambray — a smooth light fabric of cotton, linen, etc, with white weft and a coloured warp
- chapbook — a book of popular ballads, stories, etc, formerly sold by chapmen or pedlars
- chasible — Alternative form of chasuble.
- chasuble — a long sleeveless outer vestment worn by a priest when celebrating Mass
- chewable — Chewable describes drugs that are best or most easily absorbed by chewing.
- chibchan — a family of Indian languages found in Colombia and elsewhere in South America
- chinbeak — a molding having a convex upper surface and a concave lower one, with a fillet between them; beak.
- choliamb — an imperfect iambic metre, with a spondee as the last foot
- choriamb — a metrical foot used in classical verse consisting of four syllables, two short ones between two long ones (– ◡ ◡ –)
- chubasco — (in Mexico) a hurricane
- clubhand — congenital deformity of the hand
- clubhaul — to force (a sailing vessel) onto a new tack, esp in an emergency, by fastening a lee anchor to the lee quarter, dropping the anchor as the vessel comes about, and hauling in the anchor cable to swing the stern to windward
- clubhead — the head of a golf club
- cohabits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cohabit.
- cohobate — to redistil (a distillate), esp by allowing it to mingle with the remaining matter
- combahee — a river in S South Carolina, flowing SE to the Atlantic Ocean. 40 miles (64 km) long.
- coolabah — an Australian myrtaceous tree, Eucalyptus microtheca, that grows along rivers and has smooth bark and long narrow leaves
- coolibah — A northern Australian gum tree that typically grows near watercourses and yields strong, hard timber.
- crabbish — Somewhat sour or cross; crabby.
- dabchick — any of several small grebes of the genera Podiceps and Podilymbus, such as Podiceps ruficollis of the Old World
- hackable — (computing) That can be hacked or broken into; insecure, vulnerable.
- hackbolt — a European seabird, Puffinus major