8-letter words containing a, c, h, l, o
- gralloch — the entrails of a deer
- hackbolt — a European seabird, Puffinus major
- halcyone — a third-magnitude star in the constellation Taurus: brightest star in the Pleiades.
- halcyons — Plural form of halcyon.
- halfcock — The position when the cock of a gun as at the first notch.
- havelock — a town in SE North Carolina.
- headlock — a hold in which a wrestler locks an arm around the opponent's head.
- holarchy — a system composed of interacting holons
- holdback — the iron or strap on the shaft of a horse-drawn vehicle to which the breeching of the harness is attached, enabling the horse to hold back or to back the vehicle.
- kolaches — Plural form of kolache.
- lambchop — A chop or rib of lamb.
- larouche — Lyndon H., Jr. born 1922, U.S. economist and politician.
- larrocha — Alicia de [ah-lee-thyah th e,, -syah] /ɑˈli θyɑ ðɛ,, -syɑ/ (Show IPA), 1923–2009, Spanish concert pianist.
- latch on — 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.
- lichanos — (in Greek music) a note played using the forefinger
- loch tay — a lake in central Scotland, in Stirling council area. Length: 23 km (14 miles)
- lochearn — a city in N Maryland, near Baltimore.
- lockhart — John Gibson, 1794–1854, Scottish biographer and novelist.
- logomach — Someone who argues about the meaning of words.
- luchador — A person who competes in lucha libre wrestling.
- mashloch — (Scotland, obsolete) A type of low-quality bread made from flour and other grains.
- monachal — of or relating to monks or their life; monastic.
- nicholas — (Thomas Parentucelli) 1397?–1455, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1447–55.
- old chap — (used in informal direct address to a man of any age).
- oligarch — one of the rulers in an oligarchy.
- omphalic — Of or pertaining to the umbilicus, or navel.
- oolachan — eulachon.
- orichalc — a yellow alloy derived from gold or copper
- pachouli — a plant, Pogostemon cablin, of tropical Asia, that yields a fragrant oil (patchouli oil) used in the manufacture of perfumes.
- polyarch — (of a woody tissue) having multiple points of origin
- potlatch — (among American Indians of the northern Pacific coast, especially the Kwakiutl) a ceremonial festival at which gifts are bestowed on the guests and property is destroyed by its owner in a show of wealth that the guests later attempt to surpass.
- rhopalic — (of poetry) in which each successive word has one more syllable than the word before
- rochdale — a borough of Greater Manchester, in N England: site of one of the earliest cooperative societies 1844.
- schawlow — Arthur Leonard, 1921–99, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1981.
- shoelace — a string or lace for fastening a shoe.
- thoracal — of or relating to the thorax.
- trochlea — a pulleylike structure or arrangement of parts.