8-letter words containing c, h, l, a
- lichanos — (in Greek music) a note played using the forefinger
- lichgate — Alternative spelling of lych-gate.
- 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.
- loch tay — a lake in central Scotland, in Stirling council area. Length: 23 km (14 miles)
- lochearn — a city in N Maryland, near Baltimore.
- lockhart — John Gibson, 1794–1854, Scottish biographer and novelist.
- logomach — Someone who argues about the meaning of words.
- luchador — A person who competes in lucha libre wrestling.
- lumachel — (mineralogy) A grey form of limestone that contains fossil shells, and reflects a fiery play of colours.
- lychgate — A roofed gateway to a churchyard, formerly used during burials for sheltering a coffin until the clergyman’s arrival.
- machilid — jumping bristletail.
- machinal — Of, or pertaining to machines.
- macleish — Archibald, 1892–1982, U.S. poet and dramatist.
- macushla — darling.
- malevich — Kasimir [kaz-uh mir] /ˈkæz əmɪr/ (Show IPA), 1878–1935, Russian painter: founder of suprematism.
- manchild — a male child; boy; son.
- marichal — Juan, born 1937, U.S. baseball pitcher, born in the Dominican Republic.
- mashloch — (Scotland, obsolete) A type of low-quality bread made from flour and other grains.
- monachal — of or relating to monks or their life; monastic.
- muhlbach — Luise [loo-ee-zuh] /luˈi zə/ (Show IPA), (Klara Müller Mundt) 1814–73, German novelist.
- mulhacen — a mountain in S Spain: the highest peak in Spain. 11,411 feet (3478 meters).
- mythical — pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a myth.
- nachlass — remains (sense 4)
- nicholas — (Thomas Parentucelli) 1397?–1455, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1447–55.
- nucflash — a report of highest precedence notifying the president, secretary of defense, or their deputies of an accidental or unauthorized nuclear-weapon launch or of a nuclear attack.
- old chap — (used in informal direct address to a man of any age).
- oligarch — one of the rulers in an oligarchy.
- omphalic — Of or pertaining to the umbilicus, or navel.
- oolachan — eulachon.
- orichalc — a yellow alloy derived from gold or copper
- pachalic — pashalik.
- pachouli — a plant, Pogostemon cablin, of tropical Asia, that yields a fragrant oil (patchouli oil) used in the manufacture of perfumes.
- parhelic — of or like a parhelion or parhelia
- patchily — characterized by or made up of patches.
- phacelia — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Phacelia, of the waterleaf family, chiefly of the western U.S. and Mexico, having clusters of violet, blue, or white flowers.
- phthalic — of or derived from phthalic acid.
- phylarch — the chief of a tribe in Ancient Greece, and in Athens, the head of a clan in battle, or generally, the chief of a tribe
- physical — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- pilchard — a small, southern European, marine fish, Sardina pilchardus, related to the herring but smaller and rounder.
- planchet — a flat piece of metal for stamping as a coin; a coin blank.
- pleached — having interlaced stems or boughs
- plutarch — a.d. c46–c120, Greek biographer.
- polyarch — (of a woody tissue) having multiple points of origin
- potlatch — (among American Indians of the northern Pacific coast, especially the Kwakiutl) a ceremonial festival at which gifts are bestowed on the guests and property is destroyed by its owner in a show of wealth that the guests later attempt to surpass.
- rachilla — a small or secondary rachis, as the axis of a spikelet in a grass inflorescence.
- relaunch — an act or instance of launching something again.
- rhopalic — (of poetry) in which each successive word has one more syllable than the word before
- richland — a city in SE Washington, on the Columbia River: residential and administrative quarters for the Hanford Works. Compare Hanford (def 2).
- rochdale — a borough of Greater Manchester, in N England: site of one of the earliest cooperative societies 1844.
- rugelach — a fruit-and-nut pastry shaped like a croissant