8-letter words containing e, i, r
- 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.
- chillier — mildly cold or producing a sensation of cold; causing shivering; chill: a chilly breeze.
- 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
- chimeral — Of or pertaining to a chimera (in all senses).
- chimeras — Plural form of chimera.
- chimeres — Plural form of chimere.
- chimeric — unreal; imaginary; visionary: a chimerical terrestrial paradise.
- chimerid — any fish of the genus Chimaera
- chippers — to chirp or twitter.
- chirpier — Comparative form of chirpy.
- chiseler — a person who cheats or tricks; swindler.
- chivaree — shivaree.
- 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
- choleric — A choleric person gets angry very easily. You can also use choleric to describe a person who is very angry.
- choppier — Comparative form of choppy.
- choregic — relating to a choregus
- choreoid — any of several diseases of the nervous system characterized by jerky, involuntary movements, chiefly of the face and extremities.
- chozerei — anything of little value; junk; garbage.
- chretien — (Joseph Jacques) Jean. born 1934, Canadian Liberal politician; prime minister of Canada (1993–2003)
- christen — When a baby is christened, he or she is given a name during the Christian ceremony of baptism. Compare baptize.
- christer — a Christian, esp. one actively engaged in proselytizing or evangelizing
- christie — Dame Agatha (Mary Clarissa). 1890–1976, British author of detective stories, many featuring Hercule Poirot, and several plays, including The Mousetrap (1952)
- chromide — any fish of the family Cichlidae
- chromite — a brownish-black mineral consisting of a ferrous chromic oxide in cubic crystalline form, occurring principally in basic igneous rocks: the only commercial source of chromium and its compounds. Formula: FeCr2O4
- chromize — to plate with chromium
- chubbier — Comparative form of chubby.
- cicerone — a person who conducts and informs sightseers; a tour guide
- ciderkin — a weak type of cider
- cinchers — Plural form of cincher.
- cincture — something that encircles or surrounds, esp a belt, girdle, or border
- cindered — Simple past tense and past participle of cinder.
- cinerama — wide-screen presentation of films using either three separate 35mm projectors or one 70mm projector to produce an image on a large deeply curved screen
- cinerary — holding or intended for ashes, especially the ashes of cremated bodies: a cinerary urn.
- cinereal — relating to the grey matter of the brain and nervous system
- ciphered — Put (a message) into secret writing; encode.
- cipherer — a person who ciphers
- circlets — Plural form of circlet.
- circulet — Obsolete form of circlet.
- circuses — Plural form of circus.
- cirriped — any of a class (Cirripedia) of saltwater crustaceans that are attached or parasitic as adults, including the barnacles and the rhizocephalans
- ciseleur — a person who is expert in ciselure
- ciselure — the art or process of chasing metal
- cisterna — a sac or partially closed space containing body fluid, esp lymph or cerebrospinal fluid
- cisterns — Plural form of cistern.
- citrange — a hybrid orange
- citrated — treated with a citrate