8-letter words containing chi
- nurhachi — 1559–1626, Manchurian leader, who unified the Manchurian state and began (1618) the Manchurian conquest of China
- ochidore — a crab, variously the shore crab (Carcinus Maenas), spider crab (esp of the family Maioidea), or swimming crab (esp of the family Portunidae)
- onychite — a type of marble stone
- onychium — a small fern plant of Old World tropics and subtropics
- orchido- — testicle
- orchises — Plural form of orchis.
- orchitis — inflammation of the testis.
- ouachita — a river flowing SE from W Arkansas through NE Louisiana to the Red River. 605 miles (975 km) long.
- outchide — to exceed in chiding
- pachinko — a Japanese pinball game played on a vertical machine in which slots struck by the player's ball release other balls that in turn are exchanged for noncash prizes.
- parching — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
- parochin — a parish
- patchily — characterized by or made up of patches.
- peaching — to inform against an accomplice or associate.
- peiching — Beijing.
- petechia — a minute, round, nonraised hemorrhage in the skin or in a mucous or serous membrane.
- pitchily — in a pitchy manner
- pitching — any of various dark, tenacious, and viscous substances for caulking and paving, consisting of the residue of the distillation of coal tar or wood tar.
- poaching — the illegal practice of trespassing on another's property to hunt or steal game without the landowner's permission.
- pochismo — an English word or expression borrowed into Spanish; a Spanish word showing U.S. influence.
- pouching — a bag, sack, or similar receptacle, especially one for small articles or quantities: a tobacco pouch.
- prechill — coldness, especially a moderate but uncomfortably penetrating coldness: the chill of evening.
- psyching — psych1 .
- psychism — the belief in a universal soul; the attributing of souls to inanimate objects or phenomena
- psychist — a person who believes in psychic phenomena
- punchier — punch-drunk.
- punching — a tool or machine for perforating or stamping materials, driving nails, etc.
- rachilla — a small or secondary rachis, as the axis of a spikelet in a grass inflorescence.
- rachises — Plural form of rachis.
- rachitic — rickets.
- rachitis — rickets.
- ranching — an establishment maintained for raising livestock under range conditions.
- retching — to make efforts to vomit.
- roaching — Nautical. the upward curve at the foot of a square sail. (loosely) a convexity given to any of the edges of a sail; round.
- schiedam — a city in SW Netherlands.
- schiffli — a large, loomlike machine for embroidering textiles and working patterns in lace.
- schiller — Ferdinand Canning Scott [kan-ing] /ˈkæn ɪŋ/ (Show IPA), 1864–1937, English philosopher in the U.S.
- schimmel — a roan-coloured horse
- schirmer — Gustav [goo s-tahf] /ˈgʊs tɑf/ (Show IPA), 1829–93, born in Germany, and his sons Rudolph Edward, 1859–1919, and Gustave, 1864–1907, U.S. music publishers.
- schizoid — Psychology. of or relating to a personality disorder marked by dissociation, passivity, withdrawal, inability to form warm social relationships, and indifference to praise or criticism.
- schizont — (in the asexual reproduction of certain sporozoans) a cell developed from a trophozoite, which undergoes multiple fission to form merozoites.
- shechina — the radiance in which God's immanent presence in the midst of his people, esp in the Temple, is visibly manifested
- shechita — the Jewish method of killing animals for food
- subchief — a chief below the main chief
- swelchie — the tidal race in the Pentland Firth
- synching — synchronization: The picture and the soundtrack were out of sync.
- synechia — any adhesion of parts of the body, as of the iris to the cornea.
- tachinid — any of numerous flies belonging to the family Tachinidae
- tachisme — action painting (def 1).
- tachiste — an artist who practises tachisme