8-letter words containing c, h, i, s
- ethicism — devotion to ethical principles
- ethicist — A person, especially a philosopher, who studies ethics (principles governing right and wrong conduct).
- eucharis — any amaryllidaceous plant of the South American genus Eucharis, cultivated for their large white fragrant flowers
- ezechias — a king of Judah ?715–?687 bc, noted for his religious reforms (II Kings 18–19)
- fasching — a carnival celebration that precedes Lent in German-speaking countries and communities; Shrovetide.
- filchers — Plural form of filcher.
- fishcake — a fried ball or cake of shredded fish, especially salt codfish, and mashed potato.
- fitchews — Plural form of fitchew.
- flinches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flinch.
- flitches — Plural form of flitch.
- fuchsias — Plural form of fuchsia.
- fuchsine — A dye (rosaniline hydrochloride or similar) usually a deep red or magenta colour.
- fuchsins — Plural form of fuchsin.
- fuchsite — a bright green variety of muscovite having chromium in place of some of the aluminum.
- geschrei — a yell; shout.
- glitches — A sudden, usually temporary malfunction or irregularity of equipment.
- glyphics — Plural form of glyphic.
- graphics — a product of the graphic arts, as a drawing or print.
- grinches — Plural form of grinch.
- haircuts — Plural form of haircut.
- hamlisch — Marvin. 1944–2012, US composer, best known for the musical A Chorus Line (1975)
- hedonics — the branch of psychology that deals with pleasurable and unpleasurable states of consciousness.
- helicase — any of the enzymes that use the energy derived from the hydrolysis of nucleoside triphosphates to unwind the double-stranded helical structure of nucleic acids: RNA and DNA helicases.
- helicons — Plural form of helicon.
- hemisect — to cut into two equal parts; to bisect, especially along a medial longitudinal plane.
- hepatics — Plural form of hepatic.
- heretics — Plural form of heretic.
- hibachis — Plural form of hibachi.
- hibiscus — Also called China rose. a woody plant, Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, of the mallow family, having large, showy flowers: the state flower of Hawaii.
- 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.
- hillocks — Plural form of hillock.
- hindcast — to test (a mathematical model) by observing whether it would have correctly predicted a historical event
- hispanic — Spanish.
- historic — well-known or important in history: a historic building; historic occasions.
- hocusing — Present participle of hocus.
- holistic — incorporating the concept of holism, or the idea that the whole is more than merely the sum of its parts, in theory or practice: holistic psychology.
- homesick — sad or depressed from a longing for home or family while away from them for a long time.
- hoochies — a thatched hut of southeast Asia.
- hospices — Plural form of hospice.
- huisache — a tropical and subtropical New World shrub, Acacia farnesiana, of the legume family, having clusters of fragrant, deep-yellow flower heads.
- humanics — the study of the nature or affairs of humankind.
- hutchins — Robert Maynard, 1899–1977, U.S. educator and college president.
- hylicism — the philosophy that the only thing that can be proven to exist is matter and that everything, including consciousness, is as a result of interaction with material things. Also called materialism
- hylicist — a philosopher specializing in matter
- hyoscine — scopolamine.
- hypocist — a type of juice derived from the fruit of a plant which grows from the Cistus shrub
- hysteric — Usually, hysterics. a fit of uncontrollable laughter or weeping; hysteria.
- hystoric — Nonstandard spelling of historic.
- ice fish — any percoid fish of the family Chaenichthyidae, of Antarctic seas, having a semitransparent scaleless body