8-letter words containing h, e, m
- campeche — a state of SE Mexico, on the SW of the Yucatán peninsula: forestry and fishing. Capital: Campeche. Pop: 205 000 (2005 est). Area: 56 114 sq km (21 666 sq miles)
- camphane — a terpene hyrdocarbon, C10H18, that is both saturated and inert
- camphene — a colourless crystalline insoluble optically active terpene derived from pinene and present in many essential oils. Formula: C10H16
- camphine — rectified oil of turpentine
- camphire — henna
- camphone — a combined mobile phone and digital camera
- campshed — to line (the bank of a river) with campshot.
- camwhore — a person who performs sexual or titillating acts in front of a webcam for the gratification of online customers who reward him or her with money or gifts
- cashmere — Cashmere is a kind of very fine, soft wool.
- chairmen — the presiding officer of a meeting, committee, board, etc.
- chalmers — Alexander, 1759–1834, Scottish biographer, editor, and journalist.
- chambers — a judge's room for hearing cases not taken in open court
- chambery — a city in SE France, in the Alps: skiing centre; former capital of the duchy of Savoy. Pop: 59 188 (2006)
- chamfers — Plural form of chamfer.
- chamotte — grog (def 3).
- champers — Champers is champagne.
- charmers — Plural form of charmer.
- checksum — a digit representing the number of bits of information transmitted, attached to the end of a message in order to verify the integrity of data
- 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.
- chemulpo — Inchon.
- chemurgy — the branch of chemistry concerned with the industrial use of organic raw materials, esp materials of agricultural origin
- cheremis — Mari.
- cherubim — a celestial being. Gen. 3:24; Ezek. 1, 10.
- chessman — any of the eight pieces and eight pawns used by each player in a game of chess
- chessmen — any piece used in the game of chess.
- chetumal — city in SE Mexico: capital of Quintana Roo state: pop. 38,000
- chiefdom — a graded social group led by a chief whose position the chief usually accedes to
- 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.
- chimenea — An earthenware outdoor fireplace shaped like a light bulb, with the bulbous end housing the fire and typically supported by a wrought-iron stand.
- 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
- chiminea — a free-standing outdoor fireplace with a rounded body
- chimkent — city in SC Kazakhstan, north of Tashkent: pop. 439,000
- chimneys — Plural form of chimney.
- chompers — (informal) teeth.
- choreman — a handyman or odd-job man
- chosisme — a writing style in which plot and characterization are de-emphasized and people, events, and setting are recorded as though seen by the author through the lens of a camera.
- chowtime — the time for eating a meal
- chremzel — a flat cake made from matzo meal, topped or stuffed with a filling, as of ground meat or fruit and nuts.