8-letter words containing a, c, s
- hardcase — a container that has a rigid structure
- hassocks — Plural form of hassock.
- hassocky — Having or characterised by hassocks, or clumps of vegetation.
- hatchels — Plural form of hatchel.
- hatchets — Plural form of hatchet.
- haunches — the hip.
- haycocks — Plural form of haycock.
- hayracks — Plural form of hayrack.
- haystack — a stack of hay with a conical or ridged top, built up in the mowed field so as to prevent the accumulation of moisture and promote drying.
- headcase — (informal) A mentally unbalanced, unpredictable person, especially one who displays aggressive behavior.
- hectares — Plural form of hectare.
- helicase — any of the enzymes that use the energy derived from the hydrolysis of nucleoside triphosphates to unwind the double-stranded helical structure of nucleic acids: RNA and DNA helicases.
- hepatics — Plural form of hepatic.
- heracles — Hercules (def 1).
- hibachis — Plural form of hibachi.
- hindcast — to test (a mathematical model) by observing whether it would have correctly predicted a historical event
- hispanic — Spanish.
- hoecakes — Plural form of hoecake.
- hogbacks — Plural form of hogback.
- horsecar — a streetcar drawn by a horse or horses.
- hotcakes — Plural form of hotcake.
- housecat — a domesticated cat kept as a pet.
- 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.
- ice ages — (often initial capital letters) the glacial epoch, especially the Pleistocene Epoch.
- iceboats — Plural form of iceboat.
- icefalls — Plural form of icefall.
- icepacks — Plural form of icepack.
- icescape — a landscape covered with ice or with snow and ice: the limitless icescapes of Antarctica.
- icosagon — (mathematics) A polygon with twenty sides and twenty angles.
- idocrase — vesuvianite.
- inasmuch — To the extent that; insofar as.
- incisura — (anatomy) a notch or indent.
- increase — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
- infarcts — Plural form of infarct.
- infracts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of infract.
- insectan — Of or relating to insects.
- instance — a case or occurrence of anything: fresh instances of oppression.
- instancy — quality of being instant; urgency; pressing nature.
- iotacism — the conversion of other vowel sounds, especially in Modern Greek, into (ē), the sound of iota.
- isagogic — introductory, especially to the interpretation of the Bible.
- iscariot — the surname of Judas, the betrayer of Jesus. Mark 3:19; 14:10, 11.
- ischemia — local deficiency of blood supply produced by vasoconstriction or local obstacles to the arterial flow.
- ischuria — Ischury.
- isobaric — Meteorology. having or showing equal barometric pressure.
- isochasm — a line on a map or chart connecting points where auroras are observed with equal frequency.
- isocracy — a government in which all individuals have equal political power.
- isocyano — containing an isocyano group.
- isogamic — isogamous
- isopachs — Plural form of isopach.