8-letter words containing a, r, c, h, n
- menarche — the first menstrual period; the establishment of menstruation.
- merchant — a person who buys and sells commodities for profit; dealer; trader.
- minarchy — (countable) Government with the least necessary power over its citizens.
- monarchs — a hereditary sovereign, as a king, queen, or emperor.
- monarchy — a state or nation in which the supreme power is actually or nominally lodged in a monarch. Compare absolute monarchy, limited monarchy.
- navarchy — experience of or skill in nautical matters
- niarchos — Stavros Spyros [stahv-raws spee-raws] /ˈstɑv rɔs ˈspi rɔs/ (Show IPA), 1909–1996, Greek businessman and shipowner.
- nomarchy — one of the provinces into which modern Greece is divided.
- nuraghic — relating to the Bronze Age Sardinian civilization that is distinguished by nuraghe
- nurhachi — 1559–1626, Manchurian leader, who unified the Manchurian state and began (1618) the Manchurian conquest of China
- omniarch — A ruler of the world.
- orchanet — Alternative form of alkanet.
- parching — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
- parochin — a parish
- pentarch — a government by five persons.
- ranchero — a rancher.
- ranching — an establishment maintained for raising livestock under range conditions.
- ranchman — a rancher.
- rebranch — (of a branch, tree, evolutionary tree, etc) to branch again
- relaunch — an act or instance of launching something again.
- revanche — the policy of a state intent on regaining areas of its original territory that have been lost to other states as a result of war, a treaty signed under duress, etc.
- rhodanic — of or relating to thiocyanic acid
- richland — a city in SE Washington, on the Columbia River: residential and administrative quarters for the Hanford Works. Compare Hanford (def 2).
- roaching — Nautical. the upward curve at the foot of a square sail. (loosely) a convexity given to any of the edges of a sail; round.
- romansch — a group of Rhaetian dialects spoken in the Swiss canton of Graubünden; an official language of Switzerland since 1938
- rondache — a small, round shield
- sarpanch — the head of a panchayat
- snatcher — to make a sudden effort to seize something, as with the hand; grab (usually followed by at).
- stancher — staunch2 .
- synarchy — joint rule
- 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
- unanchor — to remove or loose from anchor
- unarched — (of a structure) not arched; lacking arches
- uncharge — to acquit.
- unpreach — to retract or undo (preaching)
- unstarch — to free from stiffness
- vacherin — a soft French or Swiss cheese made from cows' milk