8-letter words containing c, h, o, i
- pouching — a bag, sack, or similar receptacle, especially one for small articles or quantities: a tobacco pouch.
- psychoid — the innate impetus to perform actions
- pythonic — prophetic; oracular.
- rhetoric — (in writing or speech) the undue use of exaggeration or display; bombast.
- rhodanic — of or relating to thiocyanic acid
- rhopalic — (of poetry) in which each successive word has one more syllable than the word before
- richmond — a state in the E United States, on the Atlantic coast: part of the historical South. 40,815 sq. mi. (105,710 sq. km). Capital: Richmond. Abbreviation: VA (for use with zip code), Va.
- ricochet — the motion of an object or a projectile in rebounding or deflecting one or more times from the surface over which it is passing or against which it hits a glancing blow.
- roaching — Nautical. the upward curve at the foot of a square sail. (loosely) a convexity given to any of the edges of a sail; round.
- rockfish — any of various fishes found about rocks.
- rolliche — roulade (def 2).
- scaphoid — boat-shaped; navicular.
- 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.
- scomfish — to stifle
- scottish — Also, Scots. of or relating to Scotland, its people, or their language.
- shocking — causing intense surprise, disgust, horror, etc.
- sopheric — relating to Jewish scribes
- stilicho — Flavius [fley-vee-uh s] /ˈfleɪ vi əs/ (Show IPA), a.d. 359?–408, Roman general and statesman.
- stockish — like a block of wood; stupid.
- strophic — Also, strophical. consisting of, pertaining to, or characterized by a strophe or strophes.
- technion — (body) Israel Institute of Technology. Address: Haifa, Israel.
- theodicy — a vindication of the divine attributes, particularly holiness and justice, in establishing or allowing the existence of physical and moral evil.
- thioacid — an acid in which part or all of the oxygen has been replaced by sulfur.
- thoracic — of or relating to the thorax.
- tochises — tokus.
- toiseach — an ancient Celtic nobleman
- torchier — of, relating to, or characteristic of a torch song or a torch singer.
- torching — a light to be carried in the hand, consisting of some combustible substance, as resinous wood, or of twisted flax or the like soaked with tallow or other flammable substance, ignited at the upper end.
- torchlit — illuminated by the light of a torch or torches
- touching — affecting; moving; pathetic: a touching scene of farewell.
- tovarich — comrade (used as a term of address in the Soviet Union).
- trichion — the point of intersection of the normal hairline and the middle line of the forehead.
- trichoid — resembling hair; hairlike.
- trichome — Botany. an outgrowth from the epidermis of plants, as a hair.
- trichord — a musical instrument with three strings
- trochaic — pertaining to the trochee.
- trochite — an individual section of the stalk of a fossil crinoid, resembling a small wheel
- trochoid — Geometry. a curve traced by a point on a radius or an extension of the radius of a circle that rolls, without slipping, on a curve, another circle, or a straight line. Equation: x = aθ − b sin θ, y = a − b cos θ.
- unheroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- vouching — to support as being true, certain, reliable, etc. (usually followed by for): Her record in office vouches for her integrity.
- whipcord — a cotton, woolen, or worsted fabric with a steep, diagonally ribbed surface.
- woodchip — a small chip of wood, especially one that flakes off when felling a tree or splitting a log.
- woolwich — a former borough of Greater London, England, now part of Greenwich and Newham: royal military academy and arsenal.
- zecchino — sequin (defs 2–4).