8-letter words containing e, c, h, i
- cheesing — the curd of milk separated from the whey and prepared in many ways as a food.
- chekiang — Zhejiang
- chelifer — Book-scorpion.
- cheliped — (of an arthropod) either of two legs which each carry a claw
- chemical — Chemical means involving or resulting from a reaction between two or more substances, or relating to the substances that something consists of.
- chemico- — chemical
- chemises — Plural form of chemise.
- chemists — Plural form of chemist.
- chemnitz — a city in E Germany, in Saxony, at the foot of the Erzgebirge: textiles, engineering. Pop: 249 922 (2003 est)
- chemosis — (medicine) A chemically-induced swelling of the mucous membrane of the eye.
- cheniere — a hummock in a marshy region, with stands of evergreen oaks.
- chenille — Chenille is cloth or clothing made from a type of thick furry thread.
- chequing — (British, and, Canada) alternative spelling of checking.
- cheremis — Mari.
- cherries — the fruit of any of various trees belonging to the genus Prunus, of the rose family, consisting of a pulpy, globular drupe enclosing a one-seeded smooth stone.
- cherubic — If someone looks cherubic, they look sweet and innocent like a cherub.
- cherubim — a celestial being. Gen. 3:24; Ezek. 1, 10.
- cherubin — Obsolete form of cherub.
- cheshire — a former administrative county of NW England; administered since 2009 by the unitary authorities of Cheshire West and Chester, and Cheshire East: low-lying and undulating, bordering on the Pennines in the east; mainly agricultural: the geographic and ceremonial county includes Warrington and Halton, which became independent unitary authorities in 1998. Area 2077 sq km (802 sq miles)
- chestier — Comparative form of chesty.
- chestily — in a self-important and arrogant manner
- cheville — the peg or pin at the end of the string in a musical instrument that can be turned in order to tune the string
- chewiest — Superlative form of chewy.
- chicaned — Simple past tense and past participle of chicane.
- chicanes — Plural form of chicane.
- chichewa — the language of the Chewa people of central Africa, widely used as a lingua franca in Malawi. It belongs to the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo family
- chickens — Plural form of chicken.
- chicklet — A small or young chick.
- chickpea — Chickpeas are hard round seeds that look like pale-brown peas. They can be cooked and eaten.
- chicness — the condition of being stylish or elegant
- chicopee — city in SW Mass., on the Connecticut River: pop. 55,000
- chiefdom — a graded social group led by a chief whose position the chief usually accedes to
- chiefery — the responsibility and lands belonging to an Irish chief
- chiefess — a chief who is female
- chiefest — the head or leader of an organized body of people; the person highest in authority: the chief of police.
- chigetai — a variety of the Asiatic wild ass, Equus hemionus, of Mongolia
- chiggers — Plural form of chigger.
- chigwell — a town in S England, in W Essex. Pop: 10 128 (2001)
- 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)
- children — Children is the plural of child.
- chillers — Plural form of chiller.
- chillest — coldness, especially a moderate but uncomfortably penetrating coldness: the chill of evening.
- chillier — mildly cold or producing a sensation of cold; causing shivering; chill: a chilly breeze.
- chillies — Plural form of chilli.
- chimaera — any tapering smooth-skinned cartilaginous deep-sea fish of the subclass Holocephali (or Bradyodonti), esp any of the genus Chimaera. They have a skull in which the upper jaw is fused to the cranium
- chimbley — (UK, dialect) A chimney.
- chimbote — a port in N central Peru: contains Peru's first steelworks (1958), using hydroelectric power from the Santa River. Pop: 328 000 (2005 est)
- chime in — If you chime in, you say something just after someone else has spoken.