8-letter words containing d, c, h
- 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
- checkedy — checkered; having a checked pattern.
- cheddars — Plural form of cheddar.
- cheddary — resembling or pertaining to cheddar cheese
- cheddite — an explosive made by mixing a powdered chlorate or perchlorate with a fatty substance, such as castor oil
- chelated — (chemistry, of a metal atom) bound with one or more chelates.
- cheliped — (of an arthropod) either of two legs which each carry a claw
- chenopod — any flowering plant of the family Chenopodiaceae, which includes the beet, mangel-wurzel, spinach, and goosefoot
- chicaned — Simple past tense and past participle of chicane.
- chidings — Plural form of chiding.
- chiefdom — a graded social group led by a chief whose position the chief usually accedes to
- childbed — the condition of giving birth to a child
- childern — Eye dialect of children.
- childers — (Robert) Erskine. 1870–1922, Irish politician, executed by the Irish Free State for his IRA activities: author of the spy story The Riddle of the Sands (1903)
- childing — bearing a child; pregnant
- childish — Childish means relating to or typical of a child.
- children — Children is the plural of child.
- chilidog — A hot dog made with chili con carne.
- chillada — a kind of fried patty
- chilopod — any arthropod of the class Chilopoda, which includes the centipedes
- chimerid — any fish of the genus Chimaera
- chindwin — a river in N Myanmar, rising in the Kumôn Range and flowing northwest then south to the Irrawaddy, of which it is the main tributary. Length: about 966 km (600 miles)
- chiphead — (slang) A microchip expert.
- chiseled — If you say that someone, usually a man, has chiseled features, you mean that their face has a strong, clear bone structure.
- chivvied — Simple past tense and past participle of chivvy.
- chlodwig — German name of Clovis I.
- chloride — Chloride is a chemical compound of chlorine and another substance.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- choreoid — any of several diseases of the nervous system characterized by jerky, involuntary movements, chiefly of the face and extremities.
- chorioid — choroid
- choroids — Plural form of choroid.
- chortled — to chuckle gleefully.
- chorused — Music. a group of persons singing in unison. (in an opera, oratorio, etc.) such a group singing choral parts in connection with soloists or individual singers. a piece of music for singing in unison. a part of a song that recurs at intervals, usually following each verse; refrain.
- chowders — Plural form of chowder.
- chresard — the amount of water present in the soil that is available to plants