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8-letter words containing d, a, h

  • cathodes — Plural form of cathode.
  • cathodic — pertaining to a cathode or phenomena in its vicinity.
  • cephalad — towards the head or anterior part
  • chad box — (hardware)   (IBM called this a "chip box") A metal box about the size of a lunchbox (or in some models a large wastebasket), for collecting the chad that accumulated in Iron Age card punches. You had to open the covers of the card punch periodically and empty the chad box. The bit bucket was notionally the equivalent device in the CPU enclosure, which was typically across the room in another great grey-and-blue box.
  • chadarim — plural of cheder.
  • chadless — (of a keypunch) not producing chads
  • chadlock — Alternative form of charlock.
  • chadwick — Sir Edwin. 1800–90, British social reformer, known for his Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain (1842)
  • chalcids — Plural form of chalcid.
  • chaldaic — an inhabitant of ancient Chaldea; a Chaldean
  • chaldean — a member of an ancient Semitic people who controlled S Babylonia from the late 8th to the late 7th century bc
  • 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
  • chaliced — (of plants) having cup-shaped flowers
  • chambord — a village in N central France: site of a famous Renaissance chateau
  • chandler — a dealer in a specified trade or merchandise
  • chaordic — (of a system, organization, or natural process) governed by or combining elements of both chaos and order
  • characid — (zoology) Any member of the Characidae.
  • charades — a parlour game in which one team acts out each syllable of a word, the other team having to guess the word
  • charidee — a jocular spelling of charity, as pronounced in a mid-Atlantic accent
  • charlady — a charwoman
  • chasidic — Hasid.
  • chasidim — Hasidim
  • chaudron — (obsolete) entrails.
  • chawdron — the entrails of an animal
  • cheddars — Plural form of cheddar.
  • cheddary — resembling or pertaining to cheddar cheese
  • chelated — (chemistry, of a metal atom) bound with one or more chelates.
  • chicaned — Simple past tense and past participle of chicane.
  • chillada — a kind of fried patty
  • chiphead — (slang) A microchip expert.
  • choanoid — (anatomy) funnel-shaped; applied particularly to a hollow muscle attached to the eyeball in many reptiles and mammals.
  • chokidar — (in India) a warden, custodian, or gatekeeper
  • chondral — of or relating to cartilage
  • chondria — a profusely branched red alga, Chondria tenuissima, of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North America.
  • 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
  • chresard — the amount of water present in the soil that is available to plants
  • claddagh — Irish ring
  • clochard — a tramp
  • clubhand — congenital deformity of the hand
  • clubhead — the head of a golf club
  • coal hod — a small pail for carrying coal; a coal scuttle.
  • coalshed — a shed in which coal is stored
  • cokehead — a person who takes cocaine regularly
  • conehead — a stupid person.
  • cowhands — Plural form of cowhand.
  • crashpad — a place to sleep or live temporarily
  • dab hand — In British English, if you are a dab hand at something, you are very good at doing it.
  • dabchick — any of several small grebes of the genera Podiceps and Podilymbus, such as Podiceps ruficollis of the Old World
  • dagenham — part of the Greater London borough of Barking and Dagenham: engineering and chemicals
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