8-letter words containing e, c, h, o
- charoset — a dish of chopped fruit, nuts, and wine eaten at Passover, representing the mortar that Jewish slaves used to build parts of Egypt
- cheat on — If someone cheats on their husband, wife, or partner, they have a sexual relationship with another person.
- chechako — cheechako
- check on — to stop or arrest the motion of suddenly or forcibly: He checked the horse at the edge of the cliff.
- checkbox — A small box on a computer screen that, when selected by the user, is filled with a check mark to show that the feature described alongside it has been enabled.
- checkoff — the procedure whereby an employer pays the employee's union dues or other fees straight from his or her salary
- checkout — In a supermarket, a checkout is a counter where you pay for things you are buying.
- checkrow — a row of plants, esp corn, in which the spaces between adjacent plants are equal to those between adjacent rows to facilitate cultivation
- cheer on — When you cheer someone on, you shout loudly in order to encourage them, for example when they are taking part in a game.
- cheerios — Plural form of cheerio.
- chelator — an organic chemical that bonds with metal ions and produces a chelate compound
- chemico- — chemical
- chemosis — (medicine) A chemically-induced swelling of the mucous membrane of the eye.
- chemulpo — Inchon.
- chenopod — any flowering plant of the family Chenopodiaceae, which includes the beet, mangel-wurzel, spinach, and goosefoot
- chepstow — a town in S Wales, in Monmouthshire on the River Wye: tourism, light industry. Pop: 10 821 (2001)
- cherokee — a member of a Native American people formerly living in and around the Appalachian Mountains, now chiefly in Oklahoma; one of the Iroquois peoples
- cheroots — Plural form of cheroot.
- chevrons — Plural form of chevron.
- chevrony — showing or displaying chevrons
- chew out — If you chew someone out, you tell them off in a very angry way.
- 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
- 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)
- chinbone — the front part of the jawbone that constitutes the chin
- chipotle — a smoked and dried jalapeno chilli pepper that is used in Mexican dishes
- chlorate — any salt of chloric acid, containing the monovalent ion ClO3–
- chloride — Chloride is a chemical compound of chlorine and another substance.
- chlorine — Chlorine is a strong-smelling gas that is used to clean water and to make cleaning products.
- chlorite — any of a group of green soft secondary minerals consisting of the hydrated silicates of aluminium, iron, and magnesium in monoclinic crystalline form: common in metamorphic rocks
- choc-ice — A choc-ice is a small block of ice cream covered in chocolate.
- chockers — Alternative form of chocker.
- 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.
- 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
- choleric — A choleric person gets angry very easily. You can also use choleric to describe a person who is very angry.
- chollers — the jowls or cheeks
- chompers — (informal) teeth.
- choosers — Plural form of chooser.
- chooseth — Archaic third-person singular form of choose.
- chopines — Plural form of chopine.
- choppers — teeth
- choppier — Comparative form of choppy.
- chorales — Plural form of chorale.
- chordate — any animal of the phylum Chordata, including the vertebrates and protochordates, characterized by a notochord, dorsal tubular nerve cord, and pharyngeal gill slits
- 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.