8-Letter Words Containing: O,C,H,O,N

• a member of an important North American Indian people who controlled the mouth of the Columbia river; they were organized into settlements rather than tribes

• a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies

• a Penutian language spoken by the Chinook

• pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon

• large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning

• a highly polished gem that is cut convexly but without facets

• (Yiddish) a gullible simpleton more to be pitied than despised

• someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)

• ask for and get free; be a parasite

• Any of a family of curves defined as the locus of points p, such that each p is on a line that passes through a given fixed point P and intersects a given curve, C, and the distance from p to the point of intersection with C is a specified constant (note that for nontrivial cases two such points p satisfy the criteria, and the resultant curve has two parts).

• To distend, to swell or extend beyond normal limits; usually used with out.