8-letter words containing c, a, n
- granicus — a river in NW Turkey, flowing N to the Sea of Marmara: battle 334 b.c. 45 miles (70 km) long.
- granitic — a coarse-grained igneous rock composed chiefly of orthoclase and albite feldspars and of quartz, usually with lesser amounts of one or more other minerals, as mica, hornblende, or augite.
- grenache — a variety of grape used in winemaking, especially for table wines in the Rhône Valley of France and for a type of rosé in California.
- guanacos — Plural form of guanaco.
- guernica — Basque town in northern Spain: bombed and destroyed in 1937 by German planes helping the insurgents in the Spanish Civil War.
- guidance — the act or function of guiding; leadership; direction.
- gymnical — Alternative form of gymnic.
- gynaeco- — relating to women; female
- gynarchy — government by women.
- gynoecia — Plural form of gynoecium.
- hacienda — a large landed estate, especially one used for farming or ranching.
- hackling — Present participle of hackle.
- hackneys — Plural form of hackney.
- hadronic — (physics) of, related to, or composed of hadrons.
- halcyone — a third-magnitude star in the constellation Taurus: brightest star in the Pleiades.
- halcyons — Plural form of halcyon.
- hand-car — a small railroad car or platform on four wheels propelled by a mechanism worked by hand, used on some railroads for inspecting tracks and transporting workers.
- handcars — Plural form of handcar.
- handcart — a small cart drawn or pushed by hand.
- handclap — a clapping of the hands.
- handcuff — a ring-shaped metal device that can be locked around a person's wrist, usually one of a pair connected by a short chain or linked bar; shackle: The police put handcuffs on the suspect.
- handicap — a race or other contest in which certain disadvantages or advantages of weight, distance, time, etc., are placed upon competitors to equalize their chances of winning.
- handpick — to pick by hand.
- hangchow — Older Spelling. Hangzhou.
- haptenic — (immunology) Of or pertaining to a hapten.
- harmonic — pertaining to harmony, as distinguished from melody and rhythm.
- hatching — a shading line in drawing or engraving.
- haunched — the hip.
- haunches — the hip.
- hawfinch — a European grosbeak, Coccothraustes coccothraustes.
- henchman — an unscrupulous and ruthless subordinate, especially a criminal: The leader of the gang went everywhere accompanied by his henchmen.
- hendeca- — eleven
- hexanoic — Of or pertaining to hexanoic acid or its derivatives; caproic.
- hindcast — to test (a mathematical model) by observing whether it would have correctly predicted a historical event
- hispanic — Spanish.
- hoactzin — hoatzin.
- huancayo — a city in central Peru, on the Mantaro River.
- humanics — the study of the nature or affairs of humankind.
- hyacinth — a female given name.
- hyrcania — an ancient province of the Persian empire, SE of the Caspian Sea.
- ice rain — freezing rain.
- icekhana — an auto-racing competition testing driving skills on a frozen lake.
- iconical — Pertaining to or consisting of images or icons.
- icosagon — (mathematics) A polygon with twenty sides and twenty angles.
- imitancy — a tendency to imitate
- in clear — (of a message, etc) not in code
- in place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- in vacuo — in a vacuum.
- inaction — absence of action; idleness.
- inactive — not active: an inactive volcano.