8-letter words containing c, h, l, o
- luncheon — lunch, especially a formal lunch held in connection with a meeting or other special occasion: the alumni luncheon.
- mashloch — (Scotland, obsolete) A type of low-quality bread made from flour and other grains.
- melchior — one of the three Magi.
- monachal — of or relating to monks or their life; monastic.
- nicholas — (Thomas Parentucelli) 1397?–1455, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1447–55.
- ochlesis — any disease caused by overcrowding.
- oilcloth — a cotton fabric made waterproof by being treated with oil and pigment, for use as tablecloths, shelf coverings, and the like.
- old chap — (used in informal direct address to a man of any age).
- old chum — a person who is experienced, esp in life in colonial Australia
- oligarch — one of the rulers in an oligarchy.
- omphalic — Of or pertaining to the umbilicus, or navel.
- oolachan — eulachon.
- orichalc — a yellow alloy derived from gold or copper
- pachouli — a plant, Pogostemon cablin, of tropical Asia, that yields a fragrant oil (patchouli oil) used in the manufacture of perfumes.
- 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.
- pinochle — a popular card game played by two, three, or four persons, with a 48-card deck.
- polyarch — (of a woody tissue) having multiple points of origin
- potlatch — (among American Indians of the northern Pacific coast, especially the Kwakiutl) a ceremonial festival at which gifts are bestowed on the guests and property is destroyed by its owner in a show of wealth that the guests later attempt to surpass.
- pouchful — the amount (of something) a pouch will hold
- psychol. — psychological
- reclothe — to clothe (someone or something) again or provide new clothing for (someone)
- reschool — to school again; retrain
- rhopalic — (of poetry) in which each successive word has one more syllable than the word before
- rochdale — a borough of Greater Manchester, in N England: site of one of the earliest cooperative societies 1844.
- rochelle — a seaport in and the capital of Charente Maritime, in W France; besieged while a Huguenot stronghold 1627–29.
- rolliche — roulade (def 2).
- schawlow — Arthur Leonard, 1921–99, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1981.
- schlocky — schlock (def 1).
- scholium — Often, scholia. an explanatory note or comment. an ancient annotation upon a passage in a Greek or Latin text.
- schooled — a large number of fish, porpoises, whales, or the like, feeding or migrating together.
- schooler — an institution where instruction is given, especially to persons under college age: The children are at school.
- schoolie — a fish that swims within a school.
- selcouth — strange; uncommon.
- sherlock — a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “fair-haired.”.
- shockley — William Bradford, 1910–1989, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1956.
- shoelace — a string or lace for fastening a shoe.
- skelloch — a shriek
- slouched — to sit or stand with an awkward, drooping posture.
- sloucher — to sit or stand with an awkward, drooping posture.
- splotchy — marked or covered with splotches.
- stilicho — Flavius [fley-vee-uh s] /ˈfleɪ vi əs/ (Show IPA), a.d. 359?–408, Roman general and statesman.
- suckhole — a sycophant; toady
- technol. — technological
- thoracal — of or relating to the thorax.
- torchlit — illuminated by the light of a torch or torches
- trochlea — a pulleylike structure or arrangement of parts.
- unclothe — to strip of clothes.
- wheelock — Eleazar, 1711–79, U.S. clergyman and educator: founded Dartmouth College.
- woolwich — a former borough of Greater London, England, now part of Greenwich and Newham: royal military academy and arsenal.