7-letter words containing h, o
- chekhov — Anton Pavlovich (anˈtɔn ˈpavləvitʃ). 1860–1904, Russian dramatist and short-story writer. His plays include The Seagull (1896), Uncle Vanya (1900), The Three Sisters (1901), and The Cherry Orchard (1904)
- chelmno — a Nazi concentration camp in central Poland.
- cheloid — keloid
- chelone — any plant of the hardy N American genus Chelone, grown for its white, rose, or purple flower spikes: family Scrophulariaceae
- chemosh — a Moabite god. Jer. 48.
- cheroot — A cheroot is a cigar with both ends cut flat.
- cheviot — a large British breed of sheep reared for its wool
- chevron — A chevron is a V shape.
- chi-rho — the Christian monogram ( ☧ ) made from the first two letters of the Greek word for Christ.
- chibouk — a Turkish tobacco pipe with an extremely long stem
- chicago — a port in NE Illinois, on Lake Michigan: the third largest city in the US; it is a major railway and air traffic centre. Pop: 2 869 121 (2003 est)
- chicano — A chicano is an American citizen, whose family originally came from Mexico.
- chicory — Chicory is a plant with crunchy bitter-tasting leaves. It is eaten in salads, and its roots are sometimes used instead of coffee.
- chiffon — Chiffon is a kind of very thin silk or nylon cloth that you can see through.
- chignon — A chignon is a knot of hair worn at the back of a woman's head.
- chigoes — Plural form of chigoe.
- chillon — a castle in W Switzerland, in Vaud at the E end of Lake Geneva
- chinois — A cone-shaped sieve with a closely woven mesh for straining sauces.
- chinone — quinone.
- chinook — a warm dry southwesterly wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains
- chirico — Giorgio de (ˈdʒordʒo de). 1888–1978, Italian artist born in Greece: profoundly influenced the surrealist movement
- chitons — Plural form of chiton.
- chkalov — former name of Orenburg.
- chloral — a colourless oily liquid with a pungent odour, made from chlorine and acetaldehyde and used in preparing chloral hydrate and DDT; trichloroacetaldehyde
- chloric — of or containing chlorine in the pentavalent state
- chlorid — Archaic form of chloride.
- chlorin — (organic compound) A large heterocyclic aromatic ring consisting, at the core, of three pyrroles and one pyrroline coupled through four methine linkages.
- chloro- — indicating the colour green
- chobdar — a macebearer or attendant of a king or eminent dignitary in India
- chocked — a wedge or block of wood, metal, or the like, for filling in a space, holding an object steady, etc.
- chocker — full up; packed
- choctaw — a member of a Native American people of Alabama
- chogyal — the title of the ruler of Sikkim
- choicer — Comparative form of choice.
- choices — 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.
- chokers — Plural form of choker.
- choking — causing breathing difficulties; suffocating
- cholate — a cholic acid salt
- cholent — a meal usually consisting of a stew of meat, potatoes, and pulses prepared before the Sabbath on Friday and left to cook until eaten for Sabbath lunch
- cholera — Cholera is a serious disease that often kills people. It is caused by drinking infected water or by eating infected food.
- cholers — irascibility; anger; wrath; irritability.
- choline — a colourless viscous soluble alkaline substance present in animal tissues, esp as a constituent of lecithin: used as a supplement to the diet of poultry and in medicine for preventing the accumulation of fat in the liver. Formula:[(CH3)3NCH2CH2OH]+OH–
- chollas — Plural form of cholla.
- choltry — a place where travellers can rest
- cholula — a town in S Mexico, in Puebla state: ancient ruins, notably a pyramid, 53 m (177 ft) high. Pop: 82 964 (2005)
- chommie — a friend, used esp by Black males and Afrikaans-speakers
- chomped — Simple past tense and past participle of chomp.
- chomper — a person who chomps
- chomsky — (Avram) Noam (ˈnəʊəm). born 1928, US linguist and political critic. His theory of language structure, transformational generative grammar, superseded the behaviourist view of Leonard Bloomfield
- chongju — a city in central South Korea.