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Definition char

Etymology 1

Back-formation from charcoal.

Verb

char (third-person singular simple present chars, present participle charring, simple past and past participle charred)

  1. (ergative) To burn something to charcoal.
  2. To burn slightly or superficially so as to affect colour.
Noun

char (plural chars or char)

  1. A charred substance.

Etymology 2

Origin unknown, perhaps from Celtic.

Noun

char (plural chars or char)

  1. One of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus.

Etymology 3

From Middle English cherre (“odd job”), from Old English ?ierr (“a turn, change, time, occasion, affair, business”), from ?ierran (“to turn, change, turn oneself, go, come, proceed, turn back, return, regard, translate, persuade, convert, be converted, agree to, submit, make to submit, reduce”), from Proto-Germanic *karzijan? (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *gers- (“to bend, turn”). Cognate with Dutch keer (“a time, turn, occasion”), German Kehre (“a turn, bight, bend”) and kehren (“to sweep”) or umkehren (“to return or reverse”), Greek ????? (gýros, “a bout, whirl”), gyre. More at chore, ajar.

Noun

char (plural chars)

  1. (obsolete) A time; a turn or occasion.
  2. (obsolete) A turn of work; a labour or item of business.
  3. An odd job, a chore or piece of housework.
  4. A charlady, a woman employed to do housework; cleaning lady.
Verb

char (third-person singular simple present chars, present participle charing or charring, simple past and past participle chared or charred)

  1. (obsolete) To turn, especially away or aside.
  2. To work, especially to do housework; to work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant.
  3. (obsolete) To perform; to do; to finish.
  4. To work or hew (stone, etc.).

Etymology 4

Abbreviation of character, used as the name of a data type in some programming languages, including notably C.

Noun

char (plural chars)

  1. (computing, programming) A character (text element such as a letter or symbol).

Etymology 5

Non-rhotic spelling of cha.

Noun

char (uncountable)

  1. (Britain) Alternative form of cha (tea)

Results 294 Words with the letters CHAR

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7 letter words with the letters CHAR 
6 letter words with the letters CHAR 
ACHIER 11
ANARCH 12
ANCHOR 12
ARCHED 12
ARCHER 11
ARCHES 11
ARCHIL 12
ARCHLY 14
ARCHON 12
BRACHS 14
BRANCH 15
BREACH 14
BROACH 14
CAHIER 11
CARHOP 14
CAROCH 14
CHADAR 12
CHADOR 12
CHADRI 12
CHAFER 14
CHAIRS 11
CHAKRA 15
CHARAS 11
CHARDS 12
CHARED 12
CHARES 11
CHARGE 13
CHARKA 15
CHARKS 15
CHARMS 14
CHARRO 11
CHARRS 11
CHARRY 13
CHARTS 11
CHASER 11
CHAWER 14
CHIMAR 14
CHIRAL 12
CHORAL 12
CHOREA 11
CHROMA 14
CHUKAR 16
COPRAH 14
CRANCH 15
CRATCH 14
CURAGH 14
DRACHM 15
ECHARD 12
EPARCH 14
ESCHAR 11
EXARCH 18
HACKER 15
INARCH 12
OCHREA 11
ORACHE 11
PREACH 14
RACHET 11
RACHIS 11
RANCHO 12
RAUNCH 13
SCARPH 14
SEARCH 11
STARCH 11
5 letter words with the letters CHAR 
BRACH 13
CHAIR 10
CHARD 11
CHARE 10
CHARK 14
CHARM 13
CHARR 10
CHARS 10
CHART 10
CHARY 12
CRASH 10
LARCH 11
MARCH 13
ORACH 10
PARCH 13
RANCH 11
RATCH 10
REACH 10
ROACH 10
4 letter words with the letters CHAR 
ARCH 9
CHAR 9
3 letter words with the letters CHAR 
ARC 6
CAR 6
RAH 5
2 letter words with the letters CHAR 
AH 4
AR 2
HA 4

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