8-letter words containing c, o, h
- choc-ice — A choc-ice is a small block of ice cream covered in chocolate.
- chockers — Alternative form of chocker.
- chockful — filled to capacity
- chocking — a wedge or block of wood, metal, or the like, for filling in a space, holding an object steady, etc.
- choicely — With care in choosing; with attention to preference.
- choicest — an act or instance of choosing; selection: Her choice of a computer was made after months of research. His parents were not happy with his choice of friends.
- choirboy — A choirboy is a boy who sings in a church choir.
- choirman — a man who is a singer in a choir
- choiseul — an island in the SW Pacific Ocean, in the Solomon Islands: hilly and densely forested. Area: 3885 sq km (1500 sq miles)
- choke up — to block (a drain, pipe, etc) completely
- 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.
- choliamb — an imperfect iambic metre, with a spondee as the last foot
- cholinic — Relating to, or obtained from, bile; cholic.
- chollers — the jowls or cheeks
- chompers — (informal) teeth.
- chomping — Present participle of chomp.
- 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
- chongjin — a port in E North Korea, on the Sea of Japan (East Sea). Pop: 603 000 (2005 est)
- choosers — Plural form of chooser.
- chooseth — Archaic third-person singular form of choose.
- choosily — In a choosy manner; pickily.
- choosing — to select from a number of possibilities; pick by preference: She chose Sunday for her departure.
- chop off — To chop off something such as a part of someone's body means to cut it off.
- chopines — Plural form of chopine.
- choppers — teeth
- choppier — Comparative form of choppy.
- choppily — (of the sea, a lake, etc.) forming short, irregular, broken waves.
- 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.
- choragus — the leader of a chorus
- chorales — Plural form of chorale.
- chorally — of a chorus or a choir: She heads our new choral society.
- chordata — the phylum comprising the chordates.
- chordate — any animal of the phylum Chordata, including the vertebrates and protochordates, characterized by a notochord, dorsal tubular nerve cord, and pharyngeal gill slits
- chording — the distribution of chords throughout a piece of harmony
- choregic — relating to a choregus
- choregus — the producer or financier of a dramatist's works in Ancient Greece
- choreman — a handyman or odd-job man
- choreoid — any of several diseases of the nervous system characterized by jerky, involuntary movements, chiefly of the face and extremities.
- choriamb — a metrical foot used in classical verse consisting of four syllables, two short ones between two long ones (– ◡ ◡ –)
- chorioid — choroid
- chorioma — any benign or malignant tumor of chorionic tissue; choriocarcinoma.
- chorisis — the multiplication of botanical elements by branching or splitting
- chorizos — Plural form of chorizo.
- choroids — Plural form of choroid.
- chortled — to chuckle gleefully.