8-letter words starting with ch
- chronaxy — Alternative form of chronaxie.
- chroneme — A basic, theoretical unit of sound that can distinguish words by duration only of a vowel or consonant.
- chronics — Plural form of chronic.
- chronons — Plural form of chronon.
- chrysler — Walter Percy, 1875–1940, U.S. automobile manufacturer.
- chrystal — Obsolete spelling of crystal.
- chthonic — chthonian
- chubasco — (in Mexico) a hurricane
- chubbier — Comparative form of chubby.
- chubbies — Plural form of chubby.
- chubbily — in a chubby way or in the manner of someone who is chubby
- chubster — An overweight person.
- chuchchi — Chukchi.
- chuck in — to abandon or give up
- chuck up — vomit
- chuckchi — Chukchi.
- chuckers — woodchuck.
- chucking — Machinery. to hold or secure with a chuck.
- chuckled — to laugh softly or amusedly, usually with satisfaction: They chuckled at the child's efforts to walk.
- chuckler — Someone who chuckles.
- chuckles — Plural form of chuckle.
- chuddies — underpants
- chuffing — (intensifier)
- chugalug — (transitive, intransitive) To swallow (a container of beer etc.) without pausing.
- chugging — a large gulp or swallow: He finished his beer in two chugs.
- chughole — chuckhole.
- chukchee — Chukchi.
- chukkars — one of the periods of play.
- chukkers — Plural form of chukker.
- chummage — (formerly) a fee paid by a prisoner for sole occupancy of a cell
- chummery — (India) The building in which unmarried British army officers were quartered during the w British Raj.
- chummily — friendly; intimate; sociable.
- chumming — cut or ground bait dumped into the water to attract fish to the area where one is fishing.
- chumping — the act of collecting wood for bonfires on Guy Fawkes Day
- chumship — friendship
- chunchon — a city in N South Korea.
- chunders — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chunder.
- chunk up — to toss or throw; chuck: chunking pebbles at the barn door.
- chunkily — In a chunky way.
- chunking — the grouping together of a number of items by the mind, after which they can be remembered as a single item, such as a word or a musical phrase
- chunters — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chunter.
- chupatty — Alternative spelling of chapatti.
- churched — formally presented or taught at church.
- churches — Plural form of church.
- churchly — appropriate to, associated with, or suggestive of church life and customs
- churinga — a sacred amulet of the native Australians
- churlish — Someone who is churlish is unfriendly, bad-tempered, or impolite.
- churners — Plural form of churner.
- churning — Churning water is moving about violently.
- churring — to make a characteristic shrill, trilling sound, as a grasshopper.