8-letter words containing is
- camisole — A camisole is a short piece of clothing that women wear on the top half of their bodies underneath a shirt or blouse, for example.
- canalise — (British spelling) To convert a river or other waterway into a canal.
- canistel — an evergreen tree, Pouteria campechiana, that is native to Central America and the West Indies
- canister — A canister is a strong metal container. It is used to hold gases or chemical substances.
- cannabis — Cannabis is the hemp plant when it is used as a drug.
- cannolis — Plural form of cannoli.
- canoeist — A canoeist is someone who is skilled at racing and performing tests of skill in a canoe.
- canonise — Ecclesiastical. to place in the canon of saints.
- canonist — a specialist in canon law
- cantoris — (in antiphonal music) to be sung by the cantorial side of a choir
- caodaism — an eclectic religion, originated in Cochin-China in 1926, combining Buddhist, Taoist, and Confucianist elements and affected to some extent by Christianity.
- carditis — inflammation of the heart
- carlisle — a city in NW England, administrative centre of Cumbria: railway and industrial centre. Pop: 71 773 (2001)
- casteism — the belief in, and adherence to, the caste system
- casuists — Plural form of casuist.
- cathexis — concentration of psychic energy on a single goal
- cathisma — a short hymn used as a response
- cavefish — any of various small freshwater cyprinodont fishes of the genera Amblyopsis, Chologaster, etc, living in subterranean and other waters in S North America
- cellfish — using a mobile phone in a way that disregards the wishes of other people
- cellists — Plural form of cellist.
- celloist — (rare) synonym of cellist.
- centesis — the surgical puncturing of a part of the body with a hollow needle in order to extract fluid
- centoist — a person who composes centos
- centrism — (especially in continental Europe) a member of a political party of the Center; moderate.
- centrist — Centrist policies and parties are moderate rather than extreme.
- ceramist — a person who works in ceramics; ceramic artist
- chamisal — a thicket or overgrowth of chamiso
- chamisos — Plural form of chamiso.
- chapatis — Plural form of chapati.
- charisma — You say that someone has charisma when they can attract, influence, and inspire people by their personal qualities.
- charisms — Plural form of charism.
- chartism — the principles of the reform movement in Britain from 1838 to 1848, which included manhood suffrage, payment of Members of Parliament, equal electoral districts, annual parliaments, voting by ballot, and the abolition of property qualifications for MPs
- chartist — a stock market specialist who analyses and predicts market trends from graphs of recent price and volume movements of selected securities
- chastise — If you chastise someone, you speak to them angrily or punish them for something wrong that they have done.
- cheapish — costing very little; relatively low in price; inexpensive: a cheap dress.
- chemises — Plural form of chemise.
- chemists — Plural form of chemist.
- chemosis — (medicine) A chemically-induced swelling of the mucous membrane of the eye.
- cheremis — Mari.
- chiantis — Plural form of chianti.
- childish — Childish means relating to or typical of a child.
- chiseled — If you say that someone, usually a man, has chiseled features, you mean that their face has a strong, clear bone structure.
- chiseler — a person who cheats or tricks; swindler.
- chisholm — Shirley (Anita St. Hill) 1924–2005, U.S. politician: congresswoman 1969–83; first black woman elected to the House of Representatives.
- chisinau — the capital of Moldova on the Bîk River: manufacturing centre of a rich agricultural region; university (1945). Pop: 662 000 (2005 est)
- choiseul — an island in the SW Pacific Ocean, in the Solomon Islands: hilly and densely forested. Area: 3885 sq km (1500 sq miles)
- chorisis — the multiplication of botanical elements by branching or splitting
- chosisme — a writing style in which plot and characterization are de-emphasized and people, events, and setting are recorded as though seen by the author through the lens of a camera.
- chrismal — Of or pertaining to or used in chrism.
- 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