8-letter words containing g, c, h
- choragus — the leader of a chorus
- chording — the distribution of chords throughout a piece of harmony
- choregic — relating to a choregus
- choregus — the producer or financier of a dramatist's works in Ancient Greece
- chousing — Present participle of chouse.
- chucking — Machinery. to hold or secure with a chuck.
- chuffing — (intensifier)
- chugalug — (transitive, intransitive) To swallow (a container of beer etc.) without pausing.
- chugging — a large gulp or swallow: He finished his beer in two chugs.
- chughole — chuckhole.
- chummage — (formerly) a fee paid by a prisoner for sole occupancy of a cell
- chumming — cut or ground bait dumped into the water to attract fish to the area where one is fishing.
- chumping — the act of collecting wood for bonfires on Guy Fawkes Day
- chunking — the grouping together of a number of items by the mind, after which they can be remembered as a single item, such as a word or a musical phrase
- churinga — a sacred amulet of the native Australians
- churning — Churning water is moving about violently.
- churring — to make a characteristic shrill, trilling sound, as a grasshopper.
- cinching — a strong girth used on stock saddles, having a ring at each end to which a strap running from the saddle is secured.
- claddagh — Irish ring
- clashing — to make a loud, harsh noise: The gears of the old car clashed and grated.
- clothing — Clothing is the things that people wear.
- coaching — the act of training a person or team of people in a particular sport
- cogwheel — a wheel with a rim notched into teeth, which mesh with those of another wheel or of a rack to transmit or receive motion
- cohering — Present participle of cohere.
- conching — Present participle of conch.
- corcaigh — a city and port in S Republic of Ireland, county town of Co Cork, at the mouth of the River Lee: seat of the University College of Cork (1849). Pop: 186 239 (2002)
- couching — a method of embroidery in which the thread is caught down at intervals by another thread passed through the material from beneath
- cough up — If you cough up an amount of money, you pay or spend that amount, usually when you would prefer not to.
- coughers — Plural form of cougher.
- coughing — the action of expelling air or solid matter from the lungs abruptly and explosively through the partially closed vocal cords
- coughlin — Charles Edward ("Father Coughlin") 1891–1979, U.S. Roman Catholic priest, activist, radio broadcaster, and editor, born in Canada.
- crashing — (intensifier) (esp in the phrase a crashing bore)
- crushing — A crushing defeat, burden, or disappointment is a very great or severe one.
- curraghs — Plural form of curragh.
- digicash — (company) A company, started in April 1990, which aims to develop and license products to support electronic payment methods including chip card, software only, and hybrid.
- ditching — a long, narrow excavation made in the ground by digging, as for draining or irrigating land; trench.
- dogpatch — a poor rural community in the U.S., especially in the South, whose inhabitants are unsophisticated and have little education: He acts like he's been raised in a Dogpatch.
- dogwatch — Nautical. either of two two-hour watches, the first from 4 to 6 p.m., the latter from 6 to 8 p.m.
- douching — Present participle of douche.
- echogram — a record produced by the action of an echograph.
- encharge — (obsolete, transitive) To give to somebody as a charge; to entrust with a duty or task.
- etchings — Plural form of etching.
- euchring — Present participle of euchre.
- exchange — Give something and receive something of the same kind in return.
- fasching — a carnival celebration that precedes Lent in German-speaking countries and communities; Shrovetide.
- felching — Present participle of felch.
- fetching — charming; captivating.
- filching — to steal (especially something of small value); pilfer: to filch ashtrays from fancy restaurants.
- finching — A dorsal line or stripe in cattle markings.
- gadhelic — Also called Q-Celtic. the subbranch of Celtic in which the Proto-Indo-European kw -sound remained a velar. Irish and Scottish Gaelic belong to Goidelic.