7-letter words containing he
- chereme — any of a small set of elements, analogous to the phoneme in speech, proposed as the basic structural units by which the signs of a sign language are represented, and including the handshapes, hand movements, and locations of the hands in relation to the body employed in a particular sign language.
- cherish — If you cherish something such as a hope or a pleasant memory, you keep it in your mind for a long period of time.
- cheroot — A cheroot is a cigar with both ends cut flat.
- cherrie — Obsolete spelling of cherry.
- cherubs — Plural form of cherub.
- chervil — Chervil is a herb that tastes like aniseed.
- cheskey — a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of Czech extraction, usually an immigrant.
- chesnut — Obsolete spelling of chestnut.
- chessel — a mould used in cheese-making
- chesses — a game played on a chessboard by two people who maneuver sixteen pieces each according to rules governing movement of the six kinds of pieces (pawn, rook, knight, bishop, queen, king), the object being to bring the opponent's king into checkmate.
- chested — having a (specified kind of) chest or thorax
- chester — a city in NW England, administrative centre of the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester, on the River Dee: intact surrounding walls; 16th- and 17th-century double-tier shops. Pop: 80 121 (2001)
- chetnik — a Serbian nationalist belonging to a group that fought against the Turks before World War I and engaged in guerrilla warfare during both World Wars
- chetrum — a Bhutanese unit of money, worth one hundredth of a ngultrum
- chevies — Plural form of chevy.
- cheviot — a large British breed of sheep reared for its wool
- chevron — A chevron is a V shape.
- chew up — If you chew food up, you chew it until it is completely crushed or soft.
- chewers — Plural form of chewer.
- chewier — Comparative form of chewy.
- chewing — Present participle of chew.
- chewink — a North American bird, Pipilo erythrophthalmus
- cinched — a strong girth used on stock saddles, having a ring at each end to which a strap running from the saddle is secured.
- cincher — Something that cinches as in holds and fastens, such as a belt or corset.
- cinches — Plural form of cinch.
- ciphers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cipher.
- cithern — cittern
- clashed — Simple past tense and past participle of clash.
- clasher — to make a loud, harsh noise: The gears of the old car clashed and grated.
- clashes — Plural form of clash.
- cliched — If you describe something as clichéd, you mean that it has been said, done, or used many times before, and is boring or untrue.
- clicher — a trite, stereotyped expression; a sentence or phrase, usually expressing a popular or common thought or idea, that has lost originality, ingenuity, and impact by long overuse, as sadder but wiser, or strong as an ox.
- cliches — Plural form of cliche.
- cloches — Plural form of cloche.
- clothed — If you are clothed in a certain way, you are dressed in that way.
- clothes — Clothes are the things that people wear, such as shirts, coats, trousers, and dresses.
- coached — Simple past tense and past participle of coach.
- coachee — a person who receives training from a coach, esp in business or office practice
- coacher — a person who coaches; a coach.
- coaches — a large, horse-drawn, four-wheeled carriage, usually enclosed.
- cochere — Used only in the term porte-cochere.
- coheirs — a joint heir.
- cohered — Simple past tense and past participle of cohere.
- coherer — an electrical component formerly used to detect radio waves, consisting of a tube containing loosely packed metal particles. The waves caused the particles to cohere, thereby changing the current through the circuit
- coheres — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cohere.
- conched — Simple past tense and past participle of conch.
- conches — Plural form of conch.
- coshery — (in Ireland) a chief's right to lodge at his tenants' houses with his followers
- couched — a piece of furniture for seating from two to four people, typically in the form of a bench with a back, sometimes having an armrest at one or each end, and partly or wholly upholstered and often fitted with springs, tailored cushions, skirts, etc.; sofa.
- couchee — a reception held late at night, usually by the nobility or royalty