8-letter words containing c, i, n, h
- chopines — Plural form of chopine.
- chopping — to cut or sever with a quick, heavy blow or a series of blows, using an ax, hatchet, etc. (often followed by down, off, etc.): to chop down a tree.
- chording — the distribution of chords throughout a piece of harmony
- chousing — Present participle of chouse.
- chowline — A line of people waiting for food.
- chretien — (Joseph Jacques) Jean. born 1934, Canadian Liberal politician; prime minister of Canada (1993–2003)
- chrismon — the monogram and symbol of Christ's name, also known as chi-rho, derived from the initial two letters of the word Christ in Greek
- christen — When a baby is christened, he or she is given a name during the Christian ceremony of baptism. Compare baptize.
- chronics — Plural form of chronic.
- chthonic — chthonian
- chuck in — to abandon or give up
- chucking — Machinery. to hold or secure with a chuck.
- chuffing — (intensifier)
- chugging — a large gulp or swallow: He finished his beer in two chugs.
- chumming — cut or ground bait dumped into the water to attract fish to the area where one is fishing.
- chumping — the act of collecting wood for bonfires on Guy Fawkes Day
- chunkily — In a chunky way.
- chunking — the grouping together of a number of items by the mind, after which they can be remembered as a single item, such as a word or a musical phrase
- churinga — a sacred amulet of the native Australians
- churning — Churning water is moving about violently.
- churring — to make a characteristic shrill, trilling sound, as a grasshopper.
- chymosin — (enzyme) The proteolytic enzyme rennin.
- cinchers — Plural form of cincher.
- cinching — a strong girth used on stock saddles, having a ring at each end to which a strap running from the saddle is secured.
- cinchona — any tree or shrub of the South American rubiaceous genus Cinchona, esp C. calisaya, having medicinal bark
- clannish — If you describe a group of people as clannish, you mean that they often spend time together and may seem unfriendly to other people who are not in the group.
- clanship — an association of families under the leadership of a chieftain
- clashing — to make a loud, harsh noise: The gears of the old car clashed and grated.
- clathrin — a basketlike network of protein molecules that forms on the cell membrane in response to the attachment of ligands to receptors and becomes the inside surface of the coated vesicle during endocytosis.
- clinched — Simple past tense and past participle of clinch.
- clincher — A clincher is a fact or argument that finally proves something, settles a dispute, or helps someone achieve a victory.
- clinches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clinch.
- clothing — Clothing is the things that people wear.
- clownish — If you describe a person's appearance or behaviour as clownish, you mean that they look or behave rather like a clown, and often that they appear rather foolish.
- coaching — the act of training a person or team of people in a particular sport
- cohenite — a rare microscopic mineral, carbide of iron, nickel, or cobalt, (Fe, Ni, Co) 3 C, found in lunar rocks and some meteorites.
- cohering — Present participle of cohere.
- cohesion — If there is cohesion within a society, organization, or group, the different members fit together well and form a united whole.
- coinhere — to inhere together
- conchies — Plural form of conchy.
- conching — Present participle of conch.
- conchita — a female given name.
- conchoid — a plane curve consisting of two branches situated about a line to which they are asymptotic, so that a line from a fixed point (the pole) intersecting both branches is of constant length between asymptote and either branch. Equation: (x – a)2(x2 + y2) = b2x2 where a is the distance between the pole and a vertical asymptote and b is the length of the constant segment
- corniche — a coastal road, esp one built into the face of a cliff
- cothurni — a grave and elevated style of acting; tragic acting; tragedy.
- couching — a method of embroidery in which the thread is caught down at intervals by another thread passed through the material from beneath
- coughing — the action of expelling air or solid matter from the lungs abruptly and explosively through the partially closed vocal cords
- coughlin — Charles Edward ("Father Coughlin") 1891–1979, U.S. Roman Catholic priest, activist, radio broadcaster, and editor, born in Canada.
- crankish — mildly eccentric
- crashing — (intensifier) (esp in the phrase a crashing bore)