8-letter words containing c, h, i, t
- chartist — a stock market specialist who analyses and predicts market trends from graphs of recent price and volume movements of selected securities
- chasting — Present participle of chast.
- chastise — If you chastise someone, you speak to them angrily or punish them for something wrong that they have done.
- chastity — the state of being chaste; purity
- chastize — Alternative form of chastise.
- chatline — People phone in to chatlines to have conversations with other people who have also phoned in.
- chattier — Comparative form of chatty.
- chattily — In a chatty manner.
- chatting — Present participle of chat.
- cheating — an instance of rule-breaking
- cheddite — an explosive made by mixing a powdered chlorate or perchlorate with a fatty substance, such as castor oil
- chemists — Plural form of chemist.
- chemnitz — a city in E Germany, in Saxony, at the foot of the Erzgebirge: textiles, engineering. Pop: 249 922 (2003 est)
- chestier — Comparative form of chesty.
- chestily — in a self-important and arrogant manner
- chewiest — Superlative form of chewy.
- chiantis — Plural form of chianti.
- chiastic — characterized by chiasmus.
- chicklet — A small or young chick.
- chiefest — the head or leader of an organized body of people; the person highest in authority: the chief of police.
- chigetai — a variety of the Asiatic wild ass, Equus hemionus, of Mongolia
- chiliast — (Christianity) One who believes that Jesus will reign over Earth for a thousand years.
- chillest — coldness, especially a moderate but uncomfortably penetrating coldness: the chill of evening.
- chillout — (colloquial) A period of quiet, rest and relaxation, especially after a party etc.
- chimbote — a port in N central Peru: contains Peru's first steelworks (1958), using hydroelectric power from the Santa River. Pop: 328 000 (2005 est)
- chimkent — city in SC Kazakhstan, north of Tashkent: pop. 439,000
- chinfest — gabfest; bull session; rap session.
- chingtao — Qingdao
- chintzes — Plural form of chintz.
- chip art — microchip art
- chip set — (hardware) A collection of integrated circuits that are designed to be used together for some specific purpose. E.g. control circuitry in an IBM PC.
- chipotle — a smoked and dried jalapeno chilli pepper that is used in Mexican dishes
- chipsets — Plural form of chipset.
- chiquita — a female given name: from a Spanish word meaning “small.”.
- chitchat — Chitchat is informal talk about things that are not very important.
- chitlins — chitterlings
- chitosan — a polysaccharide produced from chitin
- chitting — Present participle of chit.
- chlorite — any of a group of green soft secondary minerals consisting of the hydrated silicates of aluminium, iron, and magnesium in monoclinic crystalline form: common in metamorphic rocks
- choicest — an act or instance of choosing; selection: Her choice of a computer was made after months of research. His parents were not happy with his choice of friends.
- chowtime — the time for eating a meal
- chretien — (Joseph Jacques) Jean. born 1934, Canadian Liberal politician; prime minister of Canada (1993–2003)
- christen — When a baby is christened, he or she is given a name during the Christian ceremony of baptism. Compare baptize.
- christer — a Christian, esp. one actively engaged in proselytizing or evangelizing
- christie — Dame Agatha (Mary Clarissa). 1890–1976, British author of detective stories, many featuring Hercule Poirot, and several plays, including The Mousetrap (1952)
- christly — of Jesus Christ; Christlike
- christo- — indicating or relating to Christ
- chromite — a brownish-black mineral consisting of a ferrous chromic oxide in cubic crystalline form, occurring principally in basic igneous rocks: the only commercial source of chromium and its compounds. Formula: FeCr2O4
- chthonic — chthonian
- chytrids — Plural form of chytrid.