7-letter words containing l, h, e
- chimley — Alternative form of chimbley.
- chinkle — (nautical) A turn or kink in a rope.
- chisels — Plural form of chisel.
- cholate — a cholic acid salt
- cholent — a meal usually consisting of a stew of meat, potatoes, and pulses prepared before the Sabbath on Friday and left to cook until eaten for Sabbath lunch
- cholera — Cholera is a serious disease that often kills people. It is caused by drinking infected water or by eating infected food.
- cholers — irascibility; anger; wrath; irritability.
- choline — a colourless viscous soluble alkaline substance present in animal tissues, esp as a constituent of lecithin: used as a supplement to the diet of poultry and in medicine for preventing the accumulation of fat in the liver. Formula:[(CH3)3NCH2CH2OH]+OH–
- chorale — A chorale is a piece of music sung as part of a church service.
- chorley — a town in NW England, in S Lancashire: cotton textiles. Pop: 33 424 (2001)
- chortle — To chortle means to laugh in a way that shows you are very pleased.
- chromel — a nickel-based alloy containing about 10 per cent chromium, used in heating elements
- chuckle — When you chuckle, you laugh quietly.
- chuffle — (of the larger species of cats) to make a low snuffling sound analogous to the purring of smaller cat species, often as a greeting.
- chuleta — a cutlet or chop.
- chumble — To peck at or nibble.
- chunnel — a rail tunnel beneath the English Channel, linking England and France, opened in 1994
- 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.
- cleruch — a settler in a cleruchy
- 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.
- cochlea — The cochlea is the spiral-shaped part of the inner ear.
- cowheel — the heel of an ox or cow stewed to make a jelly
- culchie — a rough or unsophisticated country-dweller from outside Dublin
- deathly — If you say that someone is deathly pale or deathly still, you are emphasizing that they are very pale or still, like a dead person.
- delight — Delight is a feeling of very great pleasure.
- delilah — Samson's Philistine mistress, who deprived him of his strength by cutting off his hair (Judges 16:4–22)
- delphic — of or relating to Delphi or its oracle or temple
- delphin — a fatty substance made from dolphin oil
- derleth — August (William) 1909–71, U.S. novelist, poet, and short-story writer.
- diethyl — (organic chemistry) Two ethyl groups attached to the same molecule.
- dilthey — Wilhelm1833-1911; Ger. philosopher
- dishelm — to deprive of a helmet.
- doghole — a squalid dwelling place
- duhamel — Georges [zhawrzh] /ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), (Denis Thévenin) 1884–1966, French novelist, physician, poet, and essayist.
- earhole — The external opening of the ear.
- earthly — of or relating to the earth, especially as opposed to heaven; worldly.
- echelle — relating to a type of optical grating that splits light into different beams that move in different directions
- echelon — a level of command, authority, or rank: After years of service, she is now in the upper echelon of city officials. Synonyms: place, rank, hierarchy, authority, grade, office; row, tier, rung; social standing, position, class, standing.
- ehrlich — Paul (paul). 1854–1915, German bacteriologist, noted for his pioneering work in immunology and chemotherapy and for his discovery of a remedy for syphilis: Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1908
- eichler — August Wilhelm (ˈɑʊɡʊst ˈvilhɛlm). 1839–87, German botanist: devised the system on which modern plant classification is based
- elfhood — the state of being an elf
- elkhorn — The horn of an elk.
- elohist — the supposed author or authors of one of the four main strands of text of the Pentateuch, identified chiefly by the use of the word Elohim for God instead of YHVH (Jehovah)