8-letter words containing c, h, e, i, l
- choicely — With care in choosing; with attention to preference.
- choiseul — an island in the SW Pacific Ocean, in the Solomon Islands: hilly and densely forested. Area: 3885 sq km (1500 sq miles)
- choleric — A choleric person gets angry very easily. You can also use choleric to describe a person who is very angry.
- chowline — A line of people waiting for food.
- clashier — Comparative form of clashy.
- clerihew — a form of comic or satiric verse, consisting of two couplets of metrically irregular lines, containing the name of a well-known person
- clerkish — Like or resembling a clerk.
- clinched — Simple past tense and past participle of clinch.
- clincher — A clincher is a fact or argument that finally proves something, settles a dispute, or helps someone achieve a victory.
- clinches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clinch.
- clothier — a person who makes, sells, or deals in clothes or cloth
- culchies — Plural form of culchie.
- dithecal — having two thecae or receptacles
- eldritch — Weird and sinister or ghostly.
- elenchic — elenctic
- eolithic — denoting, relating to, or characteristic of the early part of the Stone Age, characterized by the use of crude stone tools
- ethnical — (rare) Ethnic.
- fecolith — A calcified fecal deposit.
- felching — Present participle of felch.
- filchers — Plural form of filcher.
- finchley — a residential district of N London, part of the Greater London borough of Barnet from 1965
- flichter — (of birds) to fly feebly; flutter.
- flinched — to draw back or shrink, as from what is dangerous, difficult, or unpleasant.
- flincher — One who flinches.
- flinches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flinch.
- flitches — Plural form of flitch.
- gadhelic — Also called Q-Celtic. the subbranch of Celtic in which the Proto-Indo-European kw -sound remained a velar. Irish and Scottish Gaelic belong to Goidelic.
- glitched — a defect or malfunction in a machine or plan.
- glitches — A sudden, usually temporary malfunction or irregularity of equipment.
- headlice — Alternative form of head lice.
- heckling — to harass (a public speaker, performer, etc.) with impertinent questions, gibes, or the like; badger.
- hecticly — characterized by intense agitation, excitement, confused and rapid movement, etc.: The week before the trip was hectic and exhausting.
- heliacal — pertaining to or occurring near the sun, especially applied to such risings and settings of a star as are most nearly coincident with those of the sun while yet visible.
- helicase — any of the enzymes that use the energy derived from the hydrolysis of nucleoside triphosphates to unwind the double-stranded helical structure of nucleic acids: RNA and DNA helicases.
- helicity — Helical character, especially of DNA.
- helicoid — coiled or curving like a spiral.
- helicons — Plural form of helicon.
- helicopt — to fly or transport using a helicopter
- helideck — (nautical) A platform (on a vessel or offshore structure) on which helicopters may land and take off.
- helladic — of or relating to the Bronze Age culture on the mainland of ancient Greece c2900–1100 b.c.
- hellenic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the ancient Greeks or their language, culture, thought, etc., especially before the time of Alexander the Great. Compare Hellenistic (def 3).
- hellicat — an evil creature
- helvetic — a Swiss Protestant; Zwinglian.
- heraclid — a person claiming descent from Hercules, especially one of the Dorian aristocracy of Sparta.
- heraldic — of, relating to, or characteristic of heralds or heraldry: heraldic form; heraldic images; heraldic history; a heraldic device.
- hinckley — a town in central England, in Leicestershire. Pop: 43 246 (2001)
- humicole — any plant that thrives on humus
- impleach — to intertwine
- inchmeal — by inches; inch by inch; little by little.
- iphicles — a son of Alcmene and Amphitryon, the brother of Hercules.