8-letter words containing c, h, r, o
- caschrom — a wooden hand-plough used to till the ground in the northwest of Scotland
- cataphor — a word that refers to or stands for another word used later
- chaldron — a unit of capacity equal to 36 bushels. Formerly used in the US for the measurement of solids, being equivalent to 1.268 cubic metres. Used in Britain for both solids and liquids, it is equivalent to 1.309 cubic metres
- chambord — a village in N central France: site of a famous Renaissance chateau
- chamfron — a piece of armour for a horse's head
- chamorro — a member of one of the indigenous peoples of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands
- chanfron — a piece of plate armor for defending a horse's head.
- chaordic — (of a system, organization, or natural process) governed by or combining elements of both chaos and order
- chaperon — (esp formerly) an older or married woman who accompanies or supervises a young unmarried woman on social occasions
- charango — an Andean ten-stringed instrument of the lute family
- charcoal — Charcoal is a black substance obtained by burning wood without much air. It can be burned as a fuel, and small sticks of it are used for drawing with.
- chariots — Plural form of chariot.
- charlock — a weedy Eurasian plant, Sinapis arvensis (or Brassica kaber), with hairy stems and foliage and yellow flowers: family: Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- charlton — Bobby, full name Sir Robert Charlton. born 1937, English footballer; played for Manchester United (1956–73) and England (1958–70) for whom he played 106 times, scoring 49 goals
- charneco — a type of sweet wine originating from Portugal
- charonic — Classical Mythology. the ferryman who conveyed the souls of the dead across the Styx.
- charoset — a dish of chopped fruit, nuts, and wine eaten at Passover, representing the mortar that Jewish slaves used to build parts of Egypt
- charpoys — Plural form of charpoy.
- chatroom — a site on the internet, or another computer network, where users have group discussions by electronic mail, typically about one subject
- chaudron — (obsolete) entrails.
- chawdron — the entrails of an animal
- chayroot — the root of a chay plant, used to dye textiles a deep-red colour
- checkrow — a row of plants, esp corn, in which the spaces between adjacent plants are equal to those between adjacent rows to facilitate cultivation
- cheer on — When you cheer someone on, you shout loudly in order to encourage them, for example when they are taking part in a game.
- cheerios — Plural form of cheerio.
- chelator — an organic chemical that bonds with metal ions and produces a chelate compound
- cherokee — a member of a Native American people formerly living in and around the Appalachian Mountains, now chiefly in Oklahoma; one of the Iroquois peoples
- cheroots — Plural form of cheroot.
- chevrons — Plural form of chevron.
- chevrony — showing or displaying chevrons
- chiccory — chicory.
- chickory — Alternative spelling of chicory.
- chlorate — any salt of chloric acid, containing the monovalent ion ClO3–
- chloride — Chloride is a chemical compound of chlorine and another substance.
- chlorine — Chlorine is a strong-smelling gas that is used to clean water and to make cleaning products.
- 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
- chloroma — A myeloid sarcoma.
- chlorous — of or containing chlorine in the trivalent state
- chockers — Alternative form of chocker.
- choirboy — A choirboy is a boy who sings in a church choir.
- choirman — a man who is a singer in a choir
- chokidar — (in India) a warden, custodian, or gatekeeper
- choleric — A choleric person gets angry very easily. You can also use choleric to describe a person who is very angry.
- chollers — the jowls or cheeks
- chompers — (informal) teeth.
- chondral — of or relating to cartilage
- chondria — a profusely branched red alga, Chondria tenuissima, of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North America.
- chondrin — a resilient translucent bluish-white substance that forms the matrix of cartilage
- chondro- — indicating cartilage
- chondrus — a protoctist genus that belongs to the family Gigartinaceae