8-letter words containing c, h, i, k
- hattrick — Alternative spelling of hat trickt; three goals in one game.
- heckling — to harass (a public speaker, performer, etc.) with impertinent questions, gibes, or the like; badger.
- helideck — (nautical) A platform (on a vessel or offshore structure) on which helicopters may land and take off.
- hendrick — a male given name, form of Henry.
- herdwick — a hardy breed of coarse-woolled sheep from NW England
- heretick — Obsolete form of heretic.
- hickorys — a city in W North Carolina.
- hicksite — a member of the liberal body of Quakers in the U.S., who asserted the sufficiency of the Inner Light in religious life.
- hickwall — any of certain European woodpeckers, especially the green woodpecker.
- hickymal — a titmouse
- highjack — to steal (cargo) from a truck or other vehicle after forcing it to stop: to hijack a load of whiskey.
- hijacked — Illegally seize (an aircraft, ship, or vehicle) in transit and force it to go to a different destination or use it for one's own purposes.
- hijacker — a person who hijacks.
- hillocks — Plural form of hillock.
- hillocky — Resembling a hillock.
- hinckley — a town in central England, in Leicestershire. Pop: 43 246 (2001)
- hit back — retaliate
- hocktide — a former festival celebrated on the second Monday and Tuesday after Easter
- homesick — sad or depressed from a longing for home or family while away from them for a long time.
- hot lick — lick (def 11).
- hrdlicka — Aleš [ah-lesh] /ˈɑ lɛʃ/ (Show IPA), 1869–1943, U.S. anthropologist, born in Austria-Hungary.
- icekhana — an auto-racing competition testing driving skills on a frozen lake.
- ichikawa — a city on E Honshu, in Japan, NE of Tokyo.
- in check — to stop or arrest the motion of suddenly or forcibly: He checked the horse at the edge of the cliff.
- jackfish — any of several pikes, especially the northern pike.
- jackshit — Alternative spelling of jack shit.
- ka-ching — expressing sth moneymaking
- kachahri — (in India) a courthouse
- kachinas — Plural form of kachina.
- karachai — a member of a people living mainly in the Karachai-Cherkess Republic, closely related to the Balkar.
- kerchief — a woman's square scarf worn as a covering for the head or sometimes the shoulders.
- kerching — (onomatopoeia, informal, humorous) Said to indicate that someone is obtaining money, especially a comparatively large amount.
- ketching — Present participle of ketch.
- keychain — A chain or ring to which a key may be attached.
- khichadi — Alternative form of khichdi.
- kiamichi — a river in SE Oklahoma, flowing SW and SE to the Red River. 165 miles (266 km) long.
- kiaochow — a former German-leased territory (1898–1914) on the Shandong peninsula, in E China, around Jiaozhou Bay. 200 sq. mi. (518 sq. km). Chief city, Tsingtao.
- kickshaw — a tidbit or delicacy, especially one served as an appetizer or hors d'oeuvre.
- kingchow — former name of Jiangling.
- kirchner — Ernst Ludwig, 1880–1938, German expressionist artist.
- kitchens — Plural form of kitchen.
- klephtic — (historical) Relating to the klephts.
- knackish — cunning or artful
- korchnoi — Victor. 1931–2016, Soviet-born chess player: Soviet champion 1960, 1962, and 1964: defected to the West in 1976
- kushitic — a subfamily of the Afroasiatic family of languages, including Somali, Oromo, and other languages of Somalia and Ethiopia.
- kweichow — Guizhou.
- kyphotic — Relating to, or exhibiting, kyphosis.
- 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.
- munchkin — a small person, especially one who is dwarfish or elfin in appearance.
- mutchkin — Scot. a unit of liquid measure equal to a little less than a U.S. liquid pint.