8-letter words containing a, c, h, d
- cheddars — Plural form of cheddar.
- cheddary — resembling or pertaining to cheddar cheese
- chelated — (chemistry, of a metal atom) bound with one or more chelates.
- chicaned — Simple past tense and past participle of chicane.
- chillada — a kind of fried patty
- chiphead — (slang) A microchip expert.
- choanoid — (anatomy) funnel-shaped; applied particularly to a hollow muscle attached to the eyeball in many reptiles and mammals.
- chokidar — (in India) a warden, custodian, or gatekeeper
- chondral — of or relating to cartilage
- chondria — a profusely branched red alga, Chondria tenuissima, of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North America.
- chordata — the phylum comprising the chordates.
- chordate — any animal of the phylum Chordata, including the vertebrates and protochordates, characterized by a notochord, dorsal tubular nerve cord, and pharyngeal gill slits
- chresard — the amount of water present in the soil that is available to plants
- claddagh — Irish ring
- clochard — a tramp
- clubhand — congenital deformity of the hand
- clubhead — the head of a golf club
- coal hod — a small pail for carrying coal; a coal scuttle.
- coalshed — a shed in which coal is stored
- cokehead — a person who takes cocaine regularly
- conehead — a stupid person.
- cowhands — Plural form of cowhand.
- crashpad — a place to sleep or live temporarily
- dabchick — any of several small grebes of the genera Podiceps and Podilymbus, such as Podiceps ruficollis of the Old World
- damrosch — Walter (Johannes)1862-1950; U.S. conductor & composer, born in Germany
- deckhand — A deckhand is a person who does the cleaning and other work on the deck of a ship.
- deckhead — the undersurface of a deck.
- demarche — move, step, or manoeuvre, esp in diplomatic affairs
- despatch — dispatch
- detached — Someone who is detached is not personally involved in something or has no emotional interest in it.
- detacher — One who or that which detaches.
- detaches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of detach.
- dethatch — to remove dead grass from (a lawn)
- devachan — The place where gods abide, the
- diadochi — the six Macedonian generals who, after the death of Alexander the Great, fought for control of his empire in the Wars of the Diadochi (321–281 bc)
- diadochy — the replacement of one element in a crystal by another
- diarchal — Relating to, or pertaining to, diarchy or a diarchy system.
- dichasia — Plural form of dichasium.
- dickhead — If someone calls a man a dickhead, they are saying that they think he is very stupid.
- didrachm — (in ancient Greece) a silver coin worth two drachmas
- digicash — (company) A company, started in April 1990, which aims to develop and license products to support electronic payment methods including chip card, software only, and hybrid.
- dinarchy — duarchy.
- diphasic — having two phases; two-phase.
- dispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- dithecal — having two thecae or receptacles
- dochmiac — resembling a dochmius in form or structure
- dockhand — a dockworker.
- dogpatch — a poor rural community in the U.S., especially in the South, whose inhabitants are unsophisticated and have little education: He acts like he's been raised in a Dogpatch.
- dogwatch — Nautical. either of two two-hour watches, the first from 4 to 6 p.m., the latter from 6 to 8 p.m.
- drachmas — Plural form of drachma.