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8-letter words starting with ch

  • chabasie — Dated form of chabazite.
  • chabrier — (Alexis) Emmanuel (emanɥɛl). 1841–94, French composer; noted esp for the orchestral rhapsody España (1883)
  • chackles — to chatter; jabber.
  • chaconne — a musical form consisting of a set of continuous variations upon a ground bass
  • chad box — (hardware)   (IBM called this a "chip box") A metal box about the size of a lunchbox (or in some models a large wastebasket), for collecting the chad that accumulated in Iron Age card punches. You had to open the covers of the card punch periodically and empty the chad box. The bit bucket was notionally the equivalent device in the CPU enclosure, which was typically across the room in another great grey-and-blue box.
  • chadarim — plural of cheder.
  • chadless — (of a keypunch) not producing chads
  • chadlock — Alternative form of charlock.
  • chadwick — Sir Edwin. 1800–90, British social reformer, known for his Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain (1842)
  • chaebols — Plural form of chaebol.
  • chaffery — the act of bargaining
  • chaffier — consisting of, covered with, or resembling chaff.
  • chaffing — good-natured ridicule or teasing; raillery.
  • chagatai — a Turkic literary language of medieval Central Asia.
  • chagrins — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chagrin.
  • chainage — a length as measured by a surveyor's chain or tape.
  • chaining — Present participle of chain.
  • chainlet — a small chain of hotels, shops, etc
  • chainman — a person who does the chaining in a survey
  • chainsaw — a motor-driven saw, usually portable, in which the cutting teeth form links in a continuous chain
  • chairing — a seat, especially for one person, usually having four legs for support and a rest for the back and often having rests for the arms.
  • chairman — The chairman of a committee, organization, or company is the head of it.
  • chairmen — the presiding officer of a meeting, committee, board, etc.
  • chalazae — Plural form of chalaza.
  • chalazal — Of or pertaining to the chalaza.
  • chalcids — Plural form of chalcid.
  • chaldaic — an inhabitant of ancient Chaldea; a Chaldean
  • chaldean — a member of an ancient Semitic people who controlled S Babylonia from the late 8th to the late 7th century bc
  • chaldron — a unit of capacity equal to 36 bushels. Formerly used in the US for the measurement of solids, being equivalent to 1.268 cubic metres. Used in Britain for both solids and liquids, it is equivalent to 1.309 cubic metres
  • chaliced — (of plants) having cup-shaped flowers
  • chalices — Plural form of chalice.
  • chalk up — If you chalk up a success, a victory, or a number of points in a game, you achieve it.
  • chalking — a soft, white, powdery limestone consisting chiefly of fossil shells of foraminifers.
  • chalkpit — a quarry for chalk
  • chalmersAlexander, 1759–1834, Scottish biographer, editor, and journalist.
  • chalonic — of or relating to a chalone
  • chalukya — a dynasty of central India, ruling a.d. c500–753, and restored a.d. 973–1190.
  • chambers — a judge's room for hearing cases not taken in open court
  • chambery — a city in SE France, in the Alps: skiing centre; former capital of the duchy of Savoy. Pop: 59 188 (2006)
  • chambord — a village in N central France: site of a famous Renaissance chateau
  • chambray — a smooth light fabric of cotton, linen, etc, with white weft and a coloured warp
  • chamchas — Plural form of chamcha.
  • chamfers — Plural form of chamfer.
  • chamfron — a piece of armour for a horse's head
  • chamisal — a thicket or overgrowth of chamiso
  • chamisos — Plural form of chamiso.
  • chamonix — a town in SE France, in the Alps at the foot of Mont Blanc: skiing and tourist centre. Pop: 9514 (2006)
  • chamorro — a member of one of the indigenous peoples of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands
  • chamotte — grog (def 3).
  • champaks — Plural form of champak.

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