8-letter words containing c, h, a, n
- 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.
- icekhana — an auto-racing competition testing driving skills on a frozen lake.
- inarched — Simple past tense and past participle of inarch.
- inasmuch — To the extent that; insofar as.
- inchmeal — by inches; inch by inch; little by little.
- inchoate — not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary.
- inchtape — a measuring tape marked out in inches
- incroach — Archaic form of encroach.
- jacinthe — a yellowish orange
- johnniac — (computer) A mainframe computer based on a design by John von Neuman built at the Institute for Advanced Study, USA. The Johnniac went live in 1953 and was decommissioned in 1966. Its memory consisted of 80 special "Selectron" vacuum tubes, each of which held 256 bits of data.
- ka-ching — expressing sth moneymaking
- kachinas — Plural form of kachina.
- keychain — A chain or ring to which a key may be attached.
- knackish — cunning or artful
- 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.
- launched — to set (a boat or ship) in the water.
- launcher — a person or thing that launches.
- launches — Plural form of launch.
- leaching — to dissolve out soluble constituents from (ashes, soil, etc.) by percolation.
- lichanos — (in Greek music) a note played using the forefinger
- lochearn — a city in N Maryland, near Baltimore.
- machinal — Of, or pertaining to machines.