8-letter words containing c, h, i, s
- orchises — Plural form of orchis.
- orchitis — inflammation of the testis.
- pastiche — a literary, musical, or artistic piece consisting wholly or chiefly of motifs or techniques borrowed from one or more sources.
- phthisic — a wasting disease of the lungs; phthisis.
- physical — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- physico- — physical, physical and
- pinchers — a gripping tool consisting of two pivoted limbs forming a pair of jaws and a pair of handles (usually used with pair of).
- 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.
- pochismo — an English word or expression borrowed into Spanish; a Spanish word showing U.S. influence.
- postiche — superadded, especially inappropriately, as a sculptural or architectural ornament.
- psyching — psych1 .
- psychism — the belief in a universal soul; the attributing of souls to inanimate objects or phenomena
- psychist — a person who believes in psychic phenomena
- psychoid — the innate impetus to perform actions
- quackish — a fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill.
- rachises — Plural form of rachis.
- rachitis — rickets.
- restitch — one complete movement of a threaded needle through a fabric or material such as to leave behind it a single loop or portion of thread, as in sewing, embroidery, or the surgical closing of wounds.
- richards — a male given name.
- richesse — richness or wealth
- richness — having wealth or great possessions; abundantly supplied with resources, means, or funds; wealthy: a rich man; a rich nation.
- rickshaw — jinrikisha.
- rockfish — any of various fishes found about rocks.
- sandwich — a town in E Kent, in SE England: one of the Cinque Ports.
- scampish — an unscrupulous and often mischievous person; rascal; rogue; scalawag.
- scaphoid — boat-shaped; navicular.
- scarfish — a fish in the family Scaridae
- scathing — bitterly severe, as a remark: a scathing review of the play.
- scheming — given to making plans, especially sly and underhand ones; crafty.
- 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)
- schiedam — a city in SW Netherlands.
- schiffli — a large, loomlike machine for embroidering textiles and working patterns in lace.
- schiller — Ferdinand Canning Scott [kan-ing] /ˈkæn ɪŋ/ (Show IPA), 1864–1937, English philosopher in the U.S.
- schimmel — a roan-coloured horse
- schirmer — Gustav [goo s-tahf] /ˈgʊs tɑf/ (Show IPA), 1829–93, born in Germany, and his sons Rudolph Edward, 1859–1919, and Gustave, 1864–1907, U.S. music publishers.
- schizoid — Psychology. of or relating to a personality disorder marked by dissociation, passivity, withdrawal, inability to form warm social relationships, and indifference to praise or criticism.
- schizont — (in the asexual reproduction of certain sporozoans) a cell developed from a trophozoite, which undergoes multiple fission to form merozoites.
- scholium — Often, scholia. an explanatory note or comment. an ancient annotation upon a passage in a Greek or Latin text.
- schoolie — a fish that swims within a school.
- schryari — a musical woodwind instrument of the 16th and 17th centuries having a double reed concealed in a cylinder and producing a shrill tone.
- schwerin — a state in NE Germany. 8842 sq. mi. (22,900 sq. km). Capital: Schwerin.
- sci-tech — combining scientific and technical features: sci-tech culture.
- scirrhus — a firm, densely collagenous cancer.
- scomfish — to stifle
- scottish — Also, Scots. of or relating to Scotland, its people, or their language.
- scumfish — to disgust or to stifle
- scythian — pertaining to Scythia, its people, or their language.
- scything — an agricultural implement consisting of a long, curving blade fastened at an angle to a handle, for cutting grass, grain, etc., by hand.
- semiarch — a half arch.