8-letter words containing c, h, e, k
- kolaches — Plural form of kolache.
- kreplach — Jewish Cookery. turnovers or pockets of noodle dough filled with any of several mixtures, as kasha or chopped chicken livers, usually boiled, and served in soup.
- kvetched — Simple past tense and past participle of kvetch.
- kvetcher — to complain, especially chronically.
- kvetches — Plural form of kvetch.
- kweichow — Guizhou.
- latchkey — a key for releasing a latch or springlock, especially on an outer door.
- 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.
- muckheap — Dunghill; dung heap.
- neckshot — a shot in the neck of an animal
- ockeghem — Johannes [yoh-hah-nuh s] /yoʊˈhɑ nəs/ (Show IPA), Okeghem, Jean d'.
- paycheck — a bank check given as salary or wages.
- pincheck — a very small check woven into fabric, much used in the manufacture of men's and women's suits.
- precheck — to check in advance
- resketch — to sketch again
- shackled — a ring or other fastening, as of iron, for securing the wrist, ankle, etc.; fetter.
- shackles — two metal rings joined by a chain which are fastened around someone's wrists or ankles in order to prevent them from moving or escaping
- shelduck — a sheldrake.
- shellack — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
- sherlock — a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “fair-haired.”.
- shockley — William Bradford, 1910–1989, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1956.
- skeechan — a beer of treacle and malt liquor
- skelloch — a shriek
- sketcher — a simply or hastily executed drawing or painting, especially a preliminary one, giving the essential features without the details.
- suchlike — of any such kind; similar.
- suckhole — a sycophant; toady
- sunchoke — Jerusalem artichoke (def 2).
- tchekhov — Anton Pavlovich [an-ton pav-loh-vich;; Russian uhn-tawn puh-vlaw-vyich] /ˈæn tɒn pævˈloʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian ʌnˈtɔn pʌˈvlɔ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1860–1904, Russian short-story writer and dramatist.
- the heck — You use the heck in expressions such as 'what the heck' and 'how the heck' in order to emphasize a question, especially when you are puzzled or annoyed.
- the jack — venereal disease
- the rack — an instrument of torture that stretched the body of the victim
- the sack — dismissal from employment
- the sick — sick or ill people collectively
- thickest — having relatively great extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thin: a thick slice.
- thickety — full of or covered with thickets, dense brush or undergrowth
- thickset — set thickly or in close arrangement; dense: a thickset hedge.
- tuckahoe — Also called Indian bread. the edible, underground sclerotium of the fungus Poria cocos, found on the roots of trees in the southern United States.
- unhacked — not cut or hacked
- wheelock — Eleazar, 1711–79, U.S. clergyman and educator: founded Dartmouth College.