8-letter words containing m, a, c, h
- chamfers — Plural form of chamfer.
- chamfron — a piece of armour for a horse's head
- chamisal — a thicket or overgrowth of chamiso
- chamisos — Plural form of chamiso.
- chamonix — a town in SE France, in the Alps at the foot of Mont Blanc: skiing and tourist centre. Pop: 9514 (2006)
- chamorro — a member of one of the indigenous peoples of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands
- chamotte — grog (def 3).
- champaks — Plural form of champak.
- champart — the granting of land to a person on condition that a portion of the harvest will be given to the landowner
- champers — Champers is champagne.
- champian — A plain; a flat expanse of land; a champaign.
- champing — to bite upon or grind, especially impatiently: The horses champed the oats.
- champion — A champion is someone who has won the first prize in a competition, contest, or fight.
- charisma — You say that someone has charisma when they can attract, influence, and inspire people by their personal qualities.
- charisms — Plural form of charism.
- charmers — Plural form of charmer.
- charmful — highly charming or enchanting
- charmian — a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “source of joy.”.
- charming — If you say that something is charming, you mean that it is very pleasant or attractive.
- chartism — the principles of the reform movement in Britain from 1838 to 1848, which included manhood suffrage, payment of Members of Parliament, equal electoral districts, annual parliaments, voting by ballot, and the abolition of property qualifications for MPs
- chasidim — Hasidim
- chatroom — a site on the internet, or another computer network, where users have group discussions by electronic mail, typically about one subject
- chaumont — a department in E France. 2416 sq. mi. (6255 sq. km). Capital: Chaumont.
- chemical — Chemical means involving or resulting from a reaction between two or more substances, or relating to the substances that something consists of.
- chessman — any of the eight pieces and eight pawns used by each player in a game of chess
- chetumal — city in SE Mexico: capital of Quintana Roo state: pop. 38,000
- chiasmas — Plural form of chiasma.
- chiasmic — Anatomy. a crossing or decussation, as that of the optic nerves at the base of the brain.
- chiasmus — reversal of the order of words in the second of two parallel phrases
- chiliasm — belief in the coming of the millennium
- 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
- chimango — Milvago chimango, a South American bird of prey related to the falcon.
- 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.
- chiminea — a free-standing outdoor fireplace with a rounded body
- chinaman — a native or inhabitant of China
- chinampa — an artificially created island used for growing crops in Mexican or in Mesoamerican agriculture
- chloasma — the appearance on a person's skin, esp of the face, of patches of darker colour: associated with hormonal changes caused by liver disease or the use of oral contraceptives
- chloroma — A myeloid sarcoma.
- choirman — a man who is a singer in a choir
- choliamb — an imperfect iambic metre, with a spondee as the last foot
- choreman — a handyman or odd-job man
- choriamb — a metrical foot used in classical verse consisting of four syllables, two short ones between two long ones (– ◡ ◡ –)
- chorioma — any benign or malignant tumor of chorionic tissue; choriocarcinoma.
- chrismal — Of or pertaining to or used in chrism.
- chromate — any salt or ester of chromic acid. Simple chromate salts contain the divalent ion, CrO42–, and are orange
- chummage — (formerly) a fee paid by a prisoner for sole occupancy of a cell
- coachman — A coachman was a man who drove a coach that was pulled by horses.
- coachmen — Plural form of coachman.