8-letter words containing c, h, r
- chambers — a judge's room for hearing cases not taken in open court
- chambery — a city in SE France, in the Alps: skiing centre; former capital of the duchy of Savoy. Pop: 59 188 (2006)
- chambord — a village in N central France: site of a famous Renaissance chateau
- chambray — a smooth light fabric of cotton, linen, etc, with white weft and a coloured warp
- chamfers — Plural form of chamfer.
- 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
- champart — the granting of land to a person on condition that a portion of the harvest will be given to the landowner
- champers — Champers is champagne.
- chancers — Plural form of chancer.
- chancery — In Britain, the Chancery or Chancery Division is the Lord Chancellor's court, which is a division of the High Court of Justice.
- chancier — Comparative form of chancy.
- chandler — a dealer in a specified trade or merchandise
- chanfron — a piece of plate armor for defending a horse's head.
- changers — Plural form of changer.
- channery — an accumulation of thin, flat, coarse fragments of sandstone, limestone, or schist with diameters up to 6 inches (15 cm): used in Scotland and Ireland for gravel.
- chanters — Plural form of chanter.
- chanteur — a male singer, especially one who sings in nightclubs and cabarets.
- chaordic — (of a system, organization, or natural process) governed by or combining elements of both chaos and order
- chapelry — the district legally assigned to and served by an Anglican chapel
- chaperon — (esp formerly) an older or married woman who accompanies or supervises a young unmarried woman on social occasions
- chapiter — the capital of a column
- chapters — Plural form of chapter.
- chaptrel — a side pillar supporting the weight of an arch
- char siu — barbecued marinated pork
- characid — (zoology) Any member of the Characidae.
- characin — any small carnivorous freshwater cyprinoid fish of the family Characidae, of Central and South America and Africa. They are similar to the carps but more brightly coloured
- charades — a parlour game in which one team acts out each syllable of a word, the other team having to guess the word
- charanga — a type of orchestra used in performing traditional Cuban music
- 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.
- charente — a department of W central France, in Poitou-Charentes region. Capital: Angoulême. Pop: 341 275 (2003 est). Area: 5972 sq km (2329 sq miles)
- charette — a final, intensive effort to finish a project, especially an architectural design project, before a deadline.
- chargaff — Erwin. 1905–2002, US biochemist, born in Austria, noted esp for his work on DNA
- chargers — Plural form of charger.
- chargeth — Archaic third-person singular form of charge.
- charging — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- charidee — a jocular spelling of charity, as pronounced in a mid-Atlantic accent
- chariest — Superlative form of chary.
- charikar — a city in E Afghanistan, in the Hindu Kush range.
- chariots — Plural form of chariot.
- charisma — You say that someone has charisma when they can attract, influence, and inspire people by their personal qualities.
- charisms — Plural form of charism.
- charkhas — Plural form of charkha.
- charking — charcoal (def 1).
- charlady — a charwoman
- charlene — a female given name, form of Caroline.
- charlies — a word used in communications to represent the letter C.
- charline — a female given name, form of Caroline.
- charlock — a weedy Eurasian plant, Sinapis arvensis (or Brassica kaber), with hairy stems and foliage and yellow flowers: family: Brassicaceae (crucifers)