8-letter words containing r, e, t, h
- cathedra — a bishop's throne
- catheter — A catheter is a tube which is used to introduce liquids into a human body or to withdraw liquids from it.
- ceterach — any of a genus of ferns characterized by scales found on the underside of the fronds
- chanters — Plural form of chanter.
- chanteur — a male singer, especially one who sings in nightclubs and cabarets.
- chapiter — the capital of a column
- chapters — Plural form of chapter.
- chaptrel — a side pillar supporting the weight of an arch
- charente — a department of W central France, in Poitou-Charentes region. Capital: Angoulême. Pop: 341 275 (2003 est). Area: 5972 sq km (2329 sq miles)
- charette — a final, intensive effort to finish a project, especially an architectural design project, before a deadline.
- chargeth — Archaic third-person singular form of charge.
- chariest — Superlative form of chary.
- charoset — a dish of chopped fruit, nuts, and wine eaten at Passover, representing the mortar that Jewish slaves used to build parts of Egypt
- charters — Plural form of charter.
- chartlet — a small chart indicating some special thing, as information relative to a radio navigational aid.
- chartres — a city in NW France: Gothic cathedral; market town. Pop: 41 588 (2006)
- chatters — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chatter.
- chattery — to talk rapidly in a foolish or purposeless way; jabber.
- chattier — Comparative form of chatty.
- cheaters — eyeglasses, esp. dark glasses
- cheatery — the act of cheating or deceiving
- chelator — an organic chemical that bonds with metal ions and produces a chelate compound
- cheroots — Plural form of cheroot.
- chertsey — a town in S England, in N Surrey on the River Thames. Pop: 10 323 (2001)
- chestier — Comparative form of chesty.
- cheveret — a small English table of the 18th century, having an oblong top, one or two rows of drawers, and slender legs joined near the bottom by a shelf.
- chlorate — any salt of chloric acid, containing the monovalent ion ClO3–
- chlorite — any of a group of green soft secondary minerals consisting of the hydrated silicates of aluminium, iron, and magnesium in monoclinic crystalline form: common in metamorphic rocks
- chordate — any animal of the phylum Chordata, including the vertebrates and protochordates, characterized by a notochord, dorsal tubular nerve cord, and pharyngeal gill slits
- chortled — to chuckle gleefully.
- chortler — One who chortles.
- chortles — Plural form of chortle.
- chretien — (Joseph Jacques) Jean. born 1934, Canadian Liberal politician; prime minister of Canada (1993–2003)
- christen — When a baby is christened, he or she is given a name during the Christian ceremony of baptism. Compare baptize.
- christer — a Christian, esp. one actively engaged in proselytizing or evangelizing
- christie — Dame Agatha (Mary Clarissa). 1890–1976, British author of detective stories, many featuring Hercule Poirot, and several plays, including The Mousetrap (1952)
- chromate — any salt or ester of chromic acid. Simple chromate salts contain the divalent ion, CrO42–, and are orange
- 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
- chubster — An overweight person.
- chunters — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chunter.
- clothier — a person who makes, sells, or deals in clothes or cloth
- clutcher — to seize with or as with the hands or claws; snatch: The bird swooped down and clutched its prey with its claws.
- coherent — If something is coherent, it is well planned, so that it is clear and sensible and all its parts go well with each other.
- comether — the act of persuading or coaxing
- covereth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cover.
- cratches — a crib for fodder; manger.
- crochets — Plural form of crochet.
- crotched — Having a crotch or fork; forked.
- crotches — a forking or place of forking, as of the human body between the legs.
- crotchet — A crotchet is a musical note that has a time value equal to two quavers.