8-letter words containing h, u
- chubster — An overweight person.
- chuchchi — Chukchi.
- chuck in — to abandon or give up
- chuck up — vomit
- chuckchi — Chukchi.
- chuckers — woodchuck.
- chucking — Machinery. to hold or secure with a chuck.
- chuckled — to laugh softly or amusedly, usually with satisfaction: They chuckled at the child's efforts to walk.
- chuckler — Someone who chuckles.
- chuckles — Plural form of chuckle.
- chuddies — underpants
- 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.
- chukchee — Chukchi.
- chukkars — one of the periods of play.
- chukkers — Plural form of chukker.
- chummage — (formerly) a fee paid by a prisoner for sole occupancy of a cell
- chummery — (India) The building in which unmarried British army officers were quartered during the w British Raj.
- chummily — friendly; intimate; sociable.
- 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
- chumship — friendship
- chunchon — a city in N South Korea.
- chunders — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chunder.
- chunk up — to toss or throw; chuck: chunking pebbles at the barn door.
- chunkily — In a chunky way.
- 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
- chunters — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chunter.
- chupatty — Alternative spelling of chapatti.
- churched — formally presented or taught at church.
- churches — Plural form of church.
- churchly — appropriate to, associated with, or suggestive of church life and customs
- churinga — a sacred amulet of the native Australians
- churlish — Someone who is churlish is unfriendly, bad-tempered, or impolite.
- churners — Plural form of churner.
- churning — Churning water is moving about violently.
- churring — to make a characteristic shrill, trilling sound, as a grasshopper.
- chutneys — Plural form of chutney.
- chutzpah — If you say that someone has chutzpah, you mean that you admire the fact that they are not afraid or embarrassed to do or say things that shock, surprise, or annoy other people.
- chyluria — the presence of chyle in urine
- cleruchy — (in the ancient world) a special type of Athenian colony, in which settlers (cleruchs) retained their Athenian citizenship and the community remained a political dependency of Athens
- cliquish — If you describe a group of people or their behavior as cliquish, you mean they spend their time only with other members of the group and seem unfriendly towards people who are not in the group.
- clubbish — clubby
- clubhand — congenital deformity of the hand
- clubhaul — to force (a sailing vessel) onto a new tack, esp in an emergency, by fastening a lee anchor to the lee quarter, dropping the anchor as the vessel comes about, and hauling in the anchor cable to swing the stern to windward
- clubhead — the head of a golf club
- clubrush — any rush of the genus Scirpus
- clumpish — clumpy