8-letter words containing c, h, i, r, n
- crankish — mildly eccentric
- crashing — (intensifier) (esp in the phrase a crashing bore)
- crichton — James. 1560–82, Scottish scholar and writer, called the Admirable Crichton because of his talents
- crushing — A crushing defeat, burden, or disappointment is a very great or severe one.
- dinarchy — duarchy.
- echiuran — spoonworm
- enchoric — Alternative form of enchorial.
- encipher — Convert (a message or piece of text) into a coded form ; encrypt.
- enriched — Simple past tense and past participle of enrich.
- enrichen — Enrich; richen.
- enricher — One who enriches.
- enriches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enrich.
- euchring — Present participle of euchre.
- flincher — One who flinches.
- gingrich — Newt(on) born 1943, U.S. politician.
- grinches — Plural form of grinch.
- hadronic — (physics) of, related to, or composed of hadrons.
- harmonic — pertaining to harmony, as distinguished from melody and rhythm.
- heinrich — a male given name, Germanic form of Henry.
- hendrick — a male given name, form of Henry.
- hormonic — Biochemistry. any of various internally secreted compounds, as insulin or thyroxine, formed in endocrine glands, that affect the functions of specifically receptive organs or tissues when transported to them by the body fluids.
- hydronic — of or relating to a heating system for a building in which the medium for carrying heat throughout the structure is circulating water, especially when the circulation is aided by a pump.
- hyrcania — an ancient province of the Persian empire, SE of the Caspian Sea.
- inarched — Simple past tense and past participle of inarch.
- inchworm — measuringworm.
- incroach — Archaic form of encroach.
- indrench — to submerge, immerse, or drown (someone in something)
- intrench — Alternative form of entrench.
- isochron — A line on a diagram or map connecting points relating to the same time or equal times.
- kerching — (onomatopoeia, informal, humorous) Said to indicate that someone is obtaining money, especially a comparatively large amount.
- kirchner — Ernst Ludwig, 1880–1938, German expressionist artist.
- korchnoi — Victor. 1931–2016, Soviet-born chess player: Soviet champion 1960, 1962, and 1964: defected to the West in 1976
- lurching — Archaic. the act of lurking or state of watchfulness.
- machiner — One who operates a machine.
- marching — to touch at the border; border.
- michener — (Daniel) Roland, 1900–91, Canadian public official and diplomat: governor general 1967–74.
- minarchy — (countable) Government with the least necessary power over its citizens.
- new-rich — newly or suddenly wealthy.
- niarchos — Stavros Spyros [stahv-raws spee-raws] /ˈstɑv rɔs ˈspi rɔs/ (Show IPA), 1909–1996, Greek businessman and shipowner.
- nichiren — (Zennichi; Zenshobo Rencho) 1222–82, Japanese Buddhist monk: founder of Nichiren Buddhism.
- nichrome — An alloy of nickel with chromium (10 to 20 percent) and sometimes iron (up to 25 percent), used chiefly in high-temperature applications such as electrical heating elements.
- nuraghic — relating to the Bronze Age Sardinian civilization that is distinguished by nuraghe
- nurhachi — 1559–1626, Manchurian leader, who unified the Manchurian state and began (1618) the Manchurian conquest of China
- omniarch — A ruler of the world.
- ornithic — of or relating to birds.
- orthicon — a camera tube, more sensitive than the iconoscope, in which a beam of low-velocity electrons scans a photoemissive mosaic.
- parching — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
- parochin — a parish
- pinchers — a gripping tool consisting of two pivoted limbs forming a pair of jaws and a pair of handles (usually used with pair of).
- pinscher — one of a group of related dogs including the Doberman pinscher, miniature pinscher, and affenpinscher.