8-letter words containing r, c, n
- chephren — (Chephren) flourished late 26th century b.c, Egyptian king of the fourth dynasty (son of Cheops): builder of second pyramid at El Giza.
- cherubin — Obsolete form of cherub.
- chevrons — Plural form of chevron.
- chevrony — showing or displaying chevrons
- childern — Eye dialect of children.
- children — Children is the plural of child.
- chinkara — an Indian gazelle, Gazella gazella bennetti
- chirping — high pitched, repeated noises
- chirring — Present participle of chirr.
- chlorine — Chlorine is a strong-smelling gas that is used to clean water and to make cleaning products.
- choirman — a man who is a singer in a choir
- chondral — of or relating to cartilage
- chondria — a profusely branched red alga, Chondria tenuissima, of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North America.
- chondrin — a resilient translucent bluish-white substance that forms the matrix of cartilage
- chondro- — indicating cartilage
- chondrus — a protoctist genus that belongs to the family Gigartinaceae
- chording — the distribution of chords throughout a piece of harmony
- choreman — a handyman or odd-job man
- chretien — (Joseph Jacques) Jean. born 1934, Canadian Liberal politician; prime minister of Canada (1993–2003)
- chrismon — the monogram and symbol of Christ's name, also known as chi-rho, derived from the initial two letters of the word Christ in Greek
- christen — When a baby is christened, he or she is given a name during the Christian ceremony of baptism. Compare baptize.
- chromene — a compound derived from plants, used as an insecticide
- chronaxy — Alternative form of chronaxie.
- chroneme — A basic, theoretical unit of sound that can distinguish words by duration only of a vowel or consonant.
- chronics — Plural form of chronic.
- chronons — Plural form of chronon.
- chunders — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chunder.
- chunters — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chunter.
- churinga — a sacred amulet of the native Australians
- churners — Plural form of churner.
- churning — Churning water is moving about violently.
- churring — to make a characteristic shrill, trilling sound, as a grasshopper.
- cicerone — a person who conducts and informs sightseers; a tour guide
- ciderkin — a weak type of cider
- cilantro — Cilantro is the leaves of the coriander plant that are used as an herb.
- cimarron — river flowing from NE N.Mex. eastward to the Arkansas River, near Tulsa, Okla.: c. 600 mi (966 km)
- cinchers — Plural form of cincher.
- cincture — something that encircles or surrounds, esp a belt, girdle, or border
- cindered — Simple past tense and past participle of cinder.
- 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
- cinerary — holding or intended for ashes, especially the ashes of cremated bodies: a cinerary urn.
- cinereal — relating to the grey matter of the brain and nervous system
- cingular — ring-shaped; girdle-like
- cinnabar — a bright red or brownish-red mineral form of mercuric sulphide (mercury(II) sulphide), found close to areas of volcanic activity and hot springs. It is the main commercial source of mercury. Formula: HgS. Crystal structure: hexagonal
- circinus — a small faint constellation in the S hemisphere close to Centaurus and the Southern Cross
- circling — a closed plane curve consisting of all points at a given distance from a point within it called the center. Equation: x 2 + y 2 = r 2 .
- cislunar — of or relating to the space between the earth and the moon
- cisterna — a sac or partially closed space containing body fluid, esp lymph or cerebrospinal fluid
- cisterns — Plural form of cistern.
- cistrons — Plural form of cistron.