8-letter words starting with chi
- chimango — Milvago chimango, a South American bird of prey related to the falcon.
- chimbley — (UK, dialect) A chimney.
- chimbote — a port in N central Peru: contains Peru's first steelworks (1958), using hydroelectric power from the Santa River. Pop: 328 000 (2005 est)
- chime in — If you chime in, you say something just after someone else has spoken.
- chimenea — An earthenware outdoor fireplace shaped like a light bulb, with the bulbous end housing the fire and typically supported by a wrought-iron stand.
- chimeral — Of or pertaining to a chimera (in all senses).
- chimeras — Plural form of chimera.
- chimeres — Plural form of chimere.
- chimeric — unreal; imaginary; visionary: a chimerical terrestrial paradise.
- chimerid — any fish of the genus Chimaera
- chiminea — a free-standing outdoor fireplace with a rounded body
- chimkent — city in SC Kazakhstan, north of Tashkent: pop. 439,000
- chimneys — Plural form of chimney.
- chin job — a cosmetic operation to improve the shape of the chin
- chin-wag — to engage in informal or idle conversation; chat or gossip
- chinaman — a native or inhabitant of China
- chinampa — an artificially created island used for growing crops in Mexican or in Mesoamerican agriculture
- chinbeak — a molding having a convex upper surface and a concave lower one, with a fillet between them; beak.
- chinbone — the front part of the jawbone that constitutes the chin
- chinchow — Jinzhou
- chindwin — a river in N Myanmar, rising in the Kumôn Range and flowing northwest then south to the Irrawaddy, of which it is the main tributary. Length: about 966 km (600 miles)
- chinfest — gabfest; bull session; rap session.
- chinghai — Qinghai
- chingola — a town in N central Zambia.
- chingtao — Qingdao
- chinkara — an Indian gazelle, Gazella gazella bennetti
- chinking — a chinking sound: the chink of ice in a glass.
- chinless — having a receding chin
- chinning — the lower extremity of the face, below the mouth.
- chinooks — Plural form of chinook.
- chintzes — Plural form of chintz.
- chioggia — a city in NE Italy, on an island at the S end of the Lagoon of Venice.
- chip art — microchip art
- chip box — chad box
- chip log — a log for determining a vessel's speed, consisting of a wooden chip tossed overboard at the end of a line that is marked off in lengths of 47 feet 3 inches; the speed is calculated by counting the number of such intervals that pass overboard in a 28-second interval
- chip pan — a deep pan for frying potato chips, etc
- chip set — (hardware) A collection of integrated circuits that are designed to be used together for some specific purpose. E.g. control circuitry in an IBM PC.
- chiphead — (slang) A microchip expert.
- chipmunk — A chipmunk is a small animal with a large furry tail and a striped back.
- chipotle — a smoked and dried jalapeno chilli pepper that is used in Mexican dishes
- chippage — the fact or an instance of chipping: The pottery could not be insured against chippage.
- chippers — to chirp or twitter.
- chippewa — Ojibwa
- chippies — Plural form of chippy.
- chipping — a short chirping or squeaking cry.
- chipsets — Plural form of chipset.
- chiquita — a female given name: from a Spanish word meaning “small.”.
- chiragra — a form of gout that occurs in the hands
- chirally — In a chiral manner; exhibiting chirality; like a left- or right-handed spiral.
- chirchik — a city in E Uzbekistan, E of Tashkent.