8-letter words containing c, h, e, p, i
- klephtic — (historical) Relating to the klephts.
- mephitic — offensive to the smell.
- parhelic — of or like a parhelion or parhelia
- pastiche — a literary, musical, or artistic piece consisting wholly or chiefly of motifs or techniques borrowed from one or more sources.
- pathetic — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
- peaching — to inform against an accomplice or associate.
- peiching — Beijing.
- petechia — a minute, round, nonraised hemorrhage in the skin or in a mucous or serous membrane.
- phacelia — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Phacelia, of the waterleaf family, chiefly of the western U.S. and Mexico, having clusters of violet, blue, or white flowers.
- phaeacia — an island nation on the shores of which Odysseus was shipwrecked and discovered by Nausicaä.
- phenetic — pertaining to or based on the observable similarities and differences between organisms without regard to assumed genealogy.
- phenicia — an ancient kingdom on the Mediterranean, in the region of modern Syria, Lebanon, and Israel.
- phenolic — Also called carbolic acid, hydroxybenzene, oxybenzene, phenylic acid. a white, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous mass, C 6 H 5 OH, obtained from coal tar, or a hydroxyl derivative of benzene: used chiefly as a disinfectant, as an antiseptic, and in organic synthesis.
- phenylic — relating to, consisting of or originating from phenyl
- phonemic — of or relating to phonemes: a phonemic system.
- phonetic — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
- phreatic — noting or pertaining to ground water.
- phyletic — of, relating to, or based on the evolutionary history of a group of organisms; phylogenetic.
- pincheck — a very small check woven into fabric, much used in the manufacture of men's and women's suits.
- pinchers — a gripping tool consisting of two pivoted limbs forming a pair of jaws and a pair of handles (usually used with pair of).
- pinochet — Augusto (auˈɣusto). 1915-2006, Chilean general and statesman; president of Chile (1974–90) following his overthrow of Allende (1973): charged (2001) with murder and kidnapping but found unfit to stand trial
- pinochle — a popular card game played by two, three, or four persons, with a 48-card deck.
- pinscher — one of a group of related dogs including the Doberman pinscher, miniature pinscher, and affenpinscher.
- pistache — the nut of a Eurasian tree, Pistacia vera, of the cashew family, containing an edible, greenish kernel.
- postiche — superadded, especially inappropriately, as a sculptural or architectural ornament.
- prechill — coldness, especially a moderate but uncomfortably penetrating coldness: the chill of evening.
- punchier — punch-drunk.
- schepisi — Fred, full name Frederick Alan Schepisi. born 1939, Australian film director. His films include The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978), A Cry in the Dark (1988), Last Orders (2001), and The Eye of the Storm (2011)
- seraphic — of, like, or befitting a seraph.
- sopheric — relating to Jewish scribes
- spherics — Also, sferics. (used with a singular verb) a branch of meteorology in which electronic devices are used to forecast the weather and to study atmospheric conditions.
- spitcher — the end or finish
- uncipher — to decode; decipher
- whitecap — a wave with a broken and foaming white crest.
- whitecup — a creeping South American plant, Nierembergia repens, of the nightshade family, having bell-shaped, lilac- or blue-tinged, cream-white flowers.