8-letter words containing c, a, h, i
- lechayim — a toast used in drinking to a person's health or well-being.
- lecithal — having a yolk, as certain eggs or ova.
- lichanos — (in Greek music) a note played using the forefinger
- lichgate — Alternative spelling of lych-gate.
- lifehack — Informal. a tip, trick, or efficient method for doing or managing a day-to-day task or activity; a hack: a lifehack for overcoming social anxiety; a computer programmer's best lifehacks.
- machairs — Plural form of machair.
- machilid — jumping bristletail.
- machinal — Of, or pertaining to machines.
- machined — Simple past tense and past participle of machine.
- machiner — One who operates a machine.
- machines — Plural form of machine.
- machismo — a strong or exaggerated sense of manliness; an assumptive attitude that virility, courage, strength, and entitlement to dominate are attributes or concomitants of masculinity.
- machoism — having or characterized by qualities considered manly, especially when manifested in an assertive, self-conscious, or dominating way.
- macleish — Archibald, 1892–1982, U.S. poet and dramatist.
- malevich — Kasimir [kaz-uh mir] /ˈkæz əmɪr/ (Show IPA), 1878–1935, Russian painter: founder of suprematism.
- manchild — a male child; boy; son.
- manichee — Also, Manichee [man-i-kee] /ˈmæn ɪˌki/ (Show IPA). an adherent of the dualistic religious system of Manes, a combination of Gnostic Christianity, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, and various other elements, with a basic doctrine of a conflict between light and dark, matter being regarded as dark and evil.
- marching — to touch at the border; border.
- mariachi — pertaining to traditional Mexican dance music, usually played by a small band of strolling musicians dressed in native costumes.
- marichal — Juan, born 1937, U.S. baseball pitcher, born in the Dominican Republic.
- mashiach — the messiah
- 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.
- mechanic — a person who repairs and maintains machinery, motors, etc.: an automobile mechanic.
- mechitza — a screen in a synagogue separating men and women
- michigan — a state in the N central United States. 58,216 sq. mi. (150,780 sq. km). Capital: Lansing. Abbreviation: MI (for use with zip code), Mich.
- midwatch — middle watch.
- minarchy — (countable) Government with the least necessary power over its citizens.
- mishnaic — the collection of oral laws compiled about a.d. 200 by Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi and forming the basic part of the Talmud.
- mismatch — to match badly or unsuitably.
- mispatch — to patch wrongly
- misteach — to teach wrongly or badly.
- mithraic — of Mithras or Mithraism
- mizrachi — a Zionist movement, founded in 1902, chiefly devoted to furthering the integration of Zionism and religious orthodoxy.
- mythical — pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a myth.
- nanching — a port in and the capital of Jiangsu province, in E China, on the Chang Jiang: a former capital of China.
- niarchos — Stavros Spyros [stahv-raws spee-raws] /ˈstɑv rɔs ˈspi rɔs/ (Show IPA), 1909–1996, Greek businessman and shipowner.
- nicholas — (Thomas Parentucelli) 1397?–1455, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1447–55.
- nightcap — Informal. an alcoholic drink taken at bedtime or at the end of a festive evening.
- noachian — of or relating to the patriarch Noah or his time.
- 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
- ochozias — Ahaziah.
- oligarch — one of the rulers in an oligarchy.
- omniarch — A ruler of the world.
- omphalic — Of or pertaining to the umbilicus, or navel.
- orichalc — a yellow alloy derived from gold or copper
- ouachita — a river flowing SE from W Arkansas through NE Louisiana to the Red River. 605 miles (975 km) long.
- pachalic — pashalik.
- pachinko — a Japanese pinball game played on a vertical machine in which slots struck by the player's ball release other balls that in turn are exchanged for noncash prizes.