8-letter words containing chi
- chicaned — Simple past tense and past participle of chicane.
- chicanes — Plural form of chicane.
- chicanos — of or relating to Mexican-Americans or their culture.
- chiccory — chicory.
- chichewa — the language of the Chewa people of central Africa, widely used as a lingua franca in Malawi. It belongs to the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo family
- chickens — Plural form of chicken.
- chicklet — A small or young chick.
- chickory — Alternative spelling of chicory.
- chickpea — Chickpeas are hard round seeds that look like pale-brown peas. They can be cooked and eaten.
- chiclayo — a city in NW Peru. Pop: 434 000 (2005 est)
- chicness — the condition of being stylish or elegant
- chicopee — city in SW Mass., on the Connecticut River: pop. 55,000
- chidings — Plural form of chiding.
- chiefdom — a graded social group led by a chief whose position the chief usually accedes to
- chiefery — the responsibility and lands belonging to an Irish chief
- chiefess — a chief who is female
- chiefest — the head or leader of an organized body of people; the person highest in authority: the chief of police.
- chiffons — Plural form of chiffon.
- chigetai — a variety of the Asiatic wild ass, Equus hemionus, of Mongolia
- chiggers — Plural form of chigger.
- chignons — Plural form of chignon.
- chigwell — a town in S England, in W Essex. Pop: 10 128 (2001)
- childbed — the condition of giving birth to a child
- childern — Eye dialect of children.
- childers — (Robert) Erskine. 1870–1922, Irish politician, executed by the Irish Free State for his IRA activities: author of the spy story The Riddle of the Sands (1903)
- childing — bearing a child; pregnant
- childish — Childish means relating to or typical of a child.
- children — Children is the plural of child.
- chiliasm — belief in the coming of the millennium
- chiliast — (Christianity) One who believes that Jesus will reign over Earth for a thousand years.
- chilidog — A hot dog made with chili con carne.
- chillada — a kind of fried patty
- chillers — Plural form of chiller.
- chillest — coldness, especially a moderate but uncomfortably penetrating coldness: the chill of evening.
- chillier — mildly cold or producing a sensation of cold; causing shivering; chill: a chilly breeze.
- chillies — Plural form of chilli.
- chillily — in a cold manner
- chilling — If you describe something as chilling, you mean it is frightening.
- chillout — (colloquial) A period of quiet, rest and relaxation, especially after a party etc.
- chillums — Plural form of chillum.
- chilopod — any arthropod of the class Chilopoda, which includes the centipedes
- 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.
- 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.