8-letter words containing a, c, h, i
- hipparch — (in ancient Greece) a cavalry commander
- hire car — a car that you rent for a specified, usually short, period
- hispanic — Spanish.
- hit back — retaliate
- hoactzin — hoatzin.
- hrdlicka — Aleš [ah-lesh] /ˈɑ lɛʃ/ (Show IPA), 1869–1943, U.S. anthropologist, born in Austria-Hungary.
- huisache — a tropical and subtropical New World shrub, Acacia farnesiana, of the legume family, having clusters of fragrant, deep-yellow flower heads.
- humanics — the study of the nature or affairs of humankind.
- hyacinth — a female given name.
- hydracid — an acid that does not contain oxygen, as hydrochloric acid, HCl.
- hypoacid — relating to a lower than normal level of acidity
- hyracoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the mammalian order Hyracoidea, which contains the hyraxes
- hyrcania — an ancient province of the Persian empire, SE of the Caspian Sea.
- icekhana — an auto-racing competition testing driving skills on a frozen lake.
- ich-laut — the voiceless palatal fricative sound that is written as ch in German ich, often allophonic with the ach-laut
- ichihara — a city in central Honshu, Japan, on Tokyo Bay.
- ichikawa — a city on E Honshu, in Japan, NE of Tokyo.
- impleach — to intertwine
- inarched — Simple past tense and past participle of inarch.
- inasmuch — To the extent that; insofar as.
- inchmeal — by inches; inch by inch; little by little.
- inchoate — not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary.
- inchtape — a measuring tape marked out in inches
- incroach — Archaic form of encroach.
- ischemia — local deficiency of blood supply produced by vasoconstriction or local obstacles to the arterial flow.
- ischuria — Ischury.
- isochasm — a line on a map or chart connecting points where auroras are observed with equal frequency.
- isopachs — Plural form of isopach.
- isotachs — Plural form of isotach.
- issachar — a son of Jacob and Leah. Gen. 30:18.
- jacinthe — a yellowish orange
- jackfish — any of several pikes, especially the northern pike.
- jackshit — Alternative spelling of jack shit.
- japhetic — of or relating to Japheth.
- johnniac — (computer) A mainframe computer based on a design by John von Neuman built at the Institute for Advanced Study, USA. The Johnniac went live in 1953 and was decommissioned in 1966. Its memory consisted of 80 special "Selectron" vacuum tubes, each of which held 256 bits of data.
- ka-ching — expressing sth moneymaking
- kachahri — (in India) a courthouse
- kachinas — Plural form of kachina.
- karachai — a member of a people living mainly in the Karachai-Cherkess Republic, closely related to the Balkar.
- keychain — A chain or ring to which a key may be attached.
- khichadi — Alternative form of khichdi.
- kiamichi — a river in SE Oklahoma, flowing SW and SE to the Red River. 165 miles (266 km) long.
- kiaochow — a former German-leased territory (1898–1914) on the Shandong peninsula, in E China, around Jiaozhou Bay. 200 sq. mi. (518 sq. km). Chief city, Tsingtao.
- kickshaw — a tidbit or delicacy, especially one served as an appetizer or hors d'oeuvre.
- knackish — cunning or artful
- l'chayim — a toast used in drinking to a person's health or well-being.
- lachaise — Gaston [gas-tuh n;; French ga-stawn] /ˈgæs tən;; French gaˈstɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1882–1935, U.S. sculptor, born in France.
- lachesis — the Fate who determines the length of the thread of life.
- latching — a device for holding a door, gate, or the like, closed, consisting basically of a bar falling or sliding into a catch, groove, hole, etc.
- leaching — to dissolve out soluble constituents from (ashes, soil, etc.) by percolation.