7-letter words containing c, h, e, l
- chessel — a mould used in cheese-making
- chiefly — You use chiefly to indicate that a particular reason, emotion, method, or feature is the main or most important one.
- chifley — Joseph Benedict. 1885–1951, Australian statesman; prime minister of Australia (1945–49)
- childed — (obsolete) Having a child.
- childer — (Ireland, obsolete elsewhere) Plural form of child.
- chilean — of or relating to Chile or its inhabitants
- chilies — Plural form of chili.
- chilled — (of a person) feeling cold
- chiller — A chiller is a very frightening film or novel.
- chilver — A female lamb.
- chimley — Alternative form of chimbley.
- chinkle — (nautical) A turn or kink in a rope.
- chisels — Plural form of chisel.
- cholate — a cholic acid salt
- cholent — a meal usually consisting of a stew of meat, potatoes, and pulses prepared before the Sabbath on Friday and left to cook until eaten for Sabbath lunch
- cholera — Cholera is a serious disease that often kills people. It is caused by drinking infected water or by eating infected food.
- cholers — irascibility; anger; wrath; irritability.
- choline — a colourless viscous soluble alkaline substance present in animal tissues, esp as a constituent of lecithin: used as a supplement to the diet of poultry and in medicine for preventing the accumulation of fat in the liver. Formula:[(CH3)3NCH2CH2OH]+OH–
- chorale — A chorale is a piece of music sung as part of a church service.
- chorley — a town in NW England, in S Lancashire: cotton textiles. Pop: 33 424 (2001)
- chortle — To chortle means to laugh in a way that shows you are very pleased.
- chromel — a nickel-based alloy containing about 10 per cent chromium, used in heating elements
- chuckle — When you chuckle, you laugh quietly.
- chuffle — (of the larger species of cats) to make a low snuffling sound analogous to the purring of smaller cat species, often as a greeting.
- chuleta — a cutlet or chop.
- chumble — To peck at or nibble.
- chunnel — a rail tunnel beneath the English Channel, linking England and France, opened in 1994
- clashed — Simple past tense and past participle of clash.
- clasher — to make a loud, harsh noise: The gears of the old car clashed and grated.
- clashes — Plural form of clash.
- cleruch — a settler in a cleruchy
- cliched — If you describe something as clichéd, you mean that it has been said, done, or used many times before, and is boring or untrue.
- clicher — a trite, stereotyped expression; a sentence or phrase, usually expressing a popular or common thought or idea, that has lost originality, ingenuity, and impact by long overuse, as sadder but wiser, or strong as an ox.
- cliches — Plural form of cliche.
- cloches — Plural form of cloche.
- clothed — If you are clothed in a certain way, you are dressed in that way.
- clothes — Clothes are the things that people wear, such as shirts, coats, trousers, and dresses.
- cochlea — The cochlea is the spiral-shaped part of the inner ear.
- cowheel — the heel of an ox or cow stewed to make a jelly
- culchie — a rough or unsophisticated country-dweller from outside Dublin
- delphic — of or relating to Delphi or its oracle or temple
- echelle — relating to a type of optical grating that splits light into different beams that move in different directions
- echelon — a level of command, authority, or rank: After years of service, she is now in the upper echelon of city officials. Synonyms: place, rank, hierarchy, authority, grade, office; row, tier, rung; social standing, position, class, standing.
- ehrlich — Paul (paul). 1854–1915, German bacteriologist, noted for his pioneering work in immunology and chemotherapy and for his discovery of a remedy for syphilis: Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1908
- eichler — August Wilhelm (ˈɑʊɡʊst ˈvilhɛlm). 1839–87, German botanist: devised the system on which modern plant classification is based
- epochal — Forming or characterizing an epoch; epoch-making.
- ethical — Of or relating to moral principles or the branch of knowledge dealing with these.
- ethylic — (organic chemistry) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing ethyl.
- filched — Simple past tense and past participle of filch.
- filcher — to steal (especially something of small value); pilfer: to filch ashtrays from fancy restaurants.