8-letter words containing m, e, c
- 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.
- chromate — any salt or ester of chromic acid. Simple chromate salts contain the divalent ion, CrO42–, and are orange
- chromene — a compound derived from plants, used as an insecticide
- chromide — any fish of the family Cichlidae
- chromite — a brownish-black mineral consisting of a ferrous chromic oxide in cubic crystalline form, occurring principally in basic igneous rocks: the only commercial source of chromium and its compounds. Formula: FeCr2O4
- chromize — to plate with chromium
- chroneme — A basic, theoretical unit of sound that can distinguish words by duration only of a vowel or consonant.
- 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.
- ciminite — a rock containing large quantities of trachyte
- cimolite — a soft, clayey mineral of white, grey, or reddish coloration
- cinerama — wide-screen presentation of films using either three separate 35mm projectors or one 70mm projector to produce an image on a large deeply curved screen
- cis male — a person who was born male and whose gender identity is male.
- clambake — A clambake is a picnic at which clams and other food are served.
- clambers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clamber.
- clamlike — any of various bivalve mollusks, especially certain edible species. Compare quahog, soft-shell clam.
- clammers — Plural form of clammer.
- clamored — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- clamorer — Alternative spelling of clamourer.
- clampers — Plural form of clamper.
- clansmen — Irregular plural form of clansman.
- classmen — Plural form of classman.
- claymore — a large two-edged broadsword used formerly by Scottish Highlanders