8-letter words containing a, c, n, t, h
- ethanoic — (organic chemistry) IUPAC nomenclature for CH3COO-.
- ethnarch — (historical, Ancient Greece) The governor of a province or people.
- ethnical — (rare) Ethnic.
- fasnacht — a deep-fried raised doughnut; originally served on Shrove Tuesday as the last sweet treat before Lent.
- fichtean — of, relating to, or resembling the philosophy of Johann Fichte.
- franchot — a male given name, form of Francis.
- handcart — a small cart drawn or pushed by hand.
- haptenic — (immunology) Of or pertaining to a hapten.
- hatching — a shading line in drawing or engraving.
- hindcast — to test (a mathematical model) by observing whether it would have correctly predicted a historical event
- hoactzin — hoatzin.
- hyacinth — a female given name.
- inchoate — not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary.
- inchtape — a measuring tape marked out in inches
- jacinthe — a yellowish orange
- 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.
- 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.
- matachin — a 16th century dance performed by extravagantly dressed masked dancers carrying swords
- matching — a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.
- merchant — a person who buys and sells commodities for profit; dealer; trader.
- nautches — Plural form of nautch.
- nightcap — Informal. an alcoholic drink taken at bedtime or at the end of a festive evening.
- nonmatch — That which is not a match; a mismatch.
- nuthatch — any of numerous small, short-tailed, sharp-beaked birds of the family Sittidae that creep on trees and feed on small nuts and insects.
- on watch — If someone is on watch, they have the job of carefully looking and listening, often while other people are asleep and often as a military duty, so that they can warn them of danger or an attack.
- orchanet — Alternative form of alkanet.
- penchant — a strong inclination, taste, or liking for something: a penchant for outdoor sports.
- pentarch — a government by five persons.
- pitchman — an itinerant vendor of small wares that are usually carried in a case with collapsible legs, allowing it to be set up or removed quickly.
- planchet — a flat piece of metal for stamping as a coin; a coin blank.
- scathing — bitterly severe, as a remark: a scathing review of the play.
- schantze — a pile of stones heaped to shelter soldiers from gunfire
- scythian — pertaining to Scythia, its people, or their language.
- shit-can — to dismiss from a job or position.
- snatched — to make a sudden effort to seize something, as with the hand; grab (usually followed by at).
- snatcher — to make a sudden effort to seize something, as with the hand; grab (usually followed by at).
- stancher — staunch2 .
- tachinid — any of numerous flies belonging to the family Tachinidae
- taichung — a city in and the provincial capital of Taiwan, in the W part.
- teach-in — a prolonged period of lectures, speeches, etc., conducted without interruption by members of the faculty and invited guests at a college or university as a technique of social protest.
- teaching — Informal. teacher.
- thinclad — a runner on a track team
- thracian — of or relating to Thrace or its inhabitants.
- tranched — Finance. one part or division of a larger unit, as of an asset pool or investment: The loan will be repaid in three tranches. a group of securities that share a certain characteristic and form part of a larger offering: The second tranche of the bond issue has a five-year maturity.
- tranchet — a stone implement with a horizontal, chisellike cutting edge, found at Mesolithic and Neolithic sites in macrolithic form, used as an adz, and in microlithic form, often mounted as the cutting head of an arrow.
- trichina — a nematode, Trichinella spiralis, the adults of which live in the intestine and produce larvae that encyst in the muscle tissue, especially in pigs, rats, and humans.
- truchman — an interpreter
- uncatchy — not catchy or memorable
- uncaught — simple past tense and past participle of catch.
- unchaste — not chaste; not virtuous; not pure: an unchaste woman.