Words That End With: CHS

• In the Byzantine Empire, a governor of a distant province.

• In the Eastern Christian Churches, the deputy of a patriarch, or a bishop who holds authority over other bishops without being a patriarch.

• In these same churches, a bishop appointed over a group of the faithful not yet large enough or organized enough to constitute an eparchy or diocese.

• Psychology or psychiatry.

• A psychologist; a psychiatrist.

• To put (someone) into a required psychological frame of mind (also psych up).

• To intimidate (someone) emotionally or using psychology (also psych out).

• To treat (someone) using psychoanalysis.

• The governor or prefect of a province.

• The ruler of an eparchy.

• The metropolitan bishop of a province or eparchy.

• Moloch horridus, an Australian lizard thought to be the sole member of the genus Moloch.

• Any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Rhus and other genera in Anacardiaceae, particularly the elm-leaved sumac, Sicilian sumac, or tanner's sumac (Rhus coriaria).

• Dried and chopped-up leaves and stems of a plant of the genus Rhus, particularly the tanner's sumac (see sense 1), used for dyeing and tanning leather or for medicinal purposes.

• A sour spice popular in the Eastern Mediterranean, made from the berries of tanner's sumac.