8-letter words containing c, h, e, y
- givenchy — Hubert de [y-ber duh] /üˈbɛr də/ (Show IPA), born 1927, French fashion designer.
- hackneys — Plural form of hackney.
- halcyone — a third-magnitude star in the constellation Taurus: brightest star in the Pleiades.
- hatchery — a place for hatching eggs of hens, fish, etc., especially a large, commercial or government site where the young are hatched, cared for, and sold or distributed.
- hatchety — resembling a hatchet
- headachy — having a headache.
- hecticly — characterized by intense agitation, excitement, confused and rapid movement, etc.: The week before the trip was hectic and exhausting.
- hectorly — in the manner of a hector
- helicity — Helical character, especially of DNA.
- hemocyte — a blood cell.
- hexarchy — a group of six allied states or kingdoms each under its own ruler.
- hinckley — a town in central England, in Leicestershire. Pop: 43 246 (2001)
- hygienic — conducive to good health; healthful; sanitary.
- hyoscine — scopolamine.
- hyphenic — relating to a hyphen
- hypothec — Roman and Civil Law. a mortgage or security held by a creditor on the property of a debtor without possession of it, created either by agreement or by operation of law.
- hysteric — Usually, hysterics. a fit of uncontrollable laughter or weeping; hysteria.
- keychain — A chain or ring to which a key may be attached.
- keypunch — Also, key punch. Also called card punch. a machine, operated by a keyboard, for coding information by punching holes in cards or paper tape in specified patterns.
- latchkey — a key for releasing a latch or springlock, especially on an outer door.
- lechayim — a toast used in drinking to a person's health or well-being.
- lecythis — any very tall tree of the genus Lecythis
- lecythus — (in ancient Greece) a vase with a narrow neck
- louchely — in an oblique or shifty manner
- lychgate — A roofed gateway to a churchyard, formerly used during burials for sheltering a coffin until the clergyman’s arrival.
- lynchers — to put to death, especially by hanging, by mob action and without legal authority.
- methylic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the methyl group.
- onychite — a type of marble stone
- patchery — the act of hurriedly patching something together
- paycheck — a bank check given as salary or wages.
- perchery — a barn in which hens are allowed to move without restriction
- petchary — a grey kingbird, Tyrannus dominicensis
- phenylic — relating to, consisting of or originating from phenyl
- phyletic — of, relating to, or based on the evolutionary history of a group of organisms; phylogenetic.
- prophecy — the foretelling or prediction of what is to come.
- schleppy — slovenly, dowdy, or run-down; frumpy: a schleppy hotel; a schleppy old bathrobe.
- schuyler — Philip John, 1733–1804, American statesman and general in the Revolutionary War.
- screechy — like or suggesting screeching.
- scyphate — being in the shape of a cup; cup-shaped.
- shockley — William Bradford, 1910–1989, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1956.
- strachey — (Giles) Lytton [jahylz lit-n] /dʒaɪlz ˈlɪt n/ (Show IPA), 1880–1932, English biographer and literary critic.
- stretchy — having a tendency to stretch, especially excessively or unduly.
- synechia — any adhesion of parts of the body, as of the iris to the cornea.
- tetchily — irritable; touchy.
- the city — the financial and commercial district of Greater London
- thearchy — the rule or government of God or of a god.
- theodicy — a vindication of the divine attributes, particularly holiness and justice, in establishing or allowing the existence of physical and moral evil.
- thickety — full of or covered with thickets, dense brush or undergrowth
- trachyte — a fine-grained volcanic rock consisting essentially of alkali feldspar and one or more subordinate minerals, as hornblende or mica: the extrusive equivalent of syenite.
- vichyite — a member or adherent of the government established 1940 at Vichy by Marshal Henri Pétain.