8-letter words containing c, h, a
- catch up — If you catch up with someone who is in front of you, you reach them by walking faster than they are walking.
- catch-22 — If you describe a situation as a Catch-22, you mean it is an impossible situation because you cannot do one thing until you do another thing, but you cannot do the second thing until you do the first thing.
- catch-up — an effort to reach or pass a norm, especially after a period of delay: After the slowdown there was a catch-up in production.
- catchall — A catchall is a term or category which includes many different things.
- catchcry — a well-known, frequently used phrase, esp one associated with a particular group, etc
- catchers — Plural form of catcher.
- catchfly — any of several caryophyllaceous plants of the genus Silene that have sticky calyxes and stems on which insects are sometimes trapped
- catching — If an illness or a disease is catching, it is easily passed on or given to someone else.
- catechin — a soluble yellow solid substance found in catechu and mahogany wood and used in tanning and dyeing. Formula: C15H14O6
- catechol — a colourless crystalline phenol found in resins and lignins; 1,2-dihydroxybenzene. It is used as a photographic developer. Formula: C6H4(OH)2
- catfight — A catfight is an angry fight or quarrel, especially between women.
- catheads — Plural form of cathead.
- cathects — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cathect.
- cathedra — a bishop's throne
- catheter — A catheter is a tube which is used to introduce liquids into a human body or to withdraw liquids from it.
- cathetus — a straight line or radius positioned perpendicular to another line or radius
- cathexes — Plural form of cathexis.
- cathexis — concentration of psychic energy on a single goal
- cathisma — a short hymn used as a response
- cathleen — a female given name, Irish form of Catherine.
- cathodal — (biochemistry) Attracted towards a cathode.
- cathodes — Plural form of cathode.
- cathodic — pertaining to a cathode or phenomena in its vicinity.
- catholic — The Catholic Church is the branch of the Christian Church that accepts the Pope as its leader and is based in the Vatican in Rome.
- cathouse — a house of prostitution
- cavefish — any of various small freshwater cyprinodont fishes of the genera Amblyopsis, Chologaster, etc, living in subterranean and other waters in S North America
- cenotaph — A cenotaph is a structure that is built in honour of soldiers who died in a war.
- cephalad — towards the head or anterior part
- cephalic — of or relating to the head
- cephalin — a phospholipid, similar to lecithin, that occurs in the nerve tissue and brain
- cephalo- — indicating the head
- cephalon — the head, especially of an arthropod.
- cephalus — the husband of Procris.
- ceterach — any of a genus of ferns characterized by scales found on the underside of the fronds
- chabasie — Dated form of chabazite.
- chabrier — (Alexis) Emmanuel (emanɥɛl). 1841–94, French composer; noted esp for the orchestral rhapsody España (1883)
- chackles — to chatter; jabber.
- chaconne — a musical form consisting of a set of continuous variations upon a ground bass
- 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.
- chadarim — plural of cheder.
- chadless — (of a keypunch) not producing chads
- chadlock — Alternative form of charlock.
- chadwick — Sir Edwin. 1800–90, British social reformer, known for his Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain (1842)
- chaebols — Plural form of chaebol.
- chaffery — the act of bargaining
- chaffier — consisting of, covered with, or resembling chaff.
- chaffing — good-natured ridicule or teasing; raillery.
- chagatai — a Turkic literary language of medieval Central Asia.
- chagrins — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chagrin.
- chainage — a length as measured by a surveyor's chain or tape.