8-letter words containing c, h, o, y
- hyracoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the mammalian order Hyracoidea, which contains the hyraxes
- hystoric — Nonstandard spelling of historic.
- ichthyo- — indicating or relating to fishes
- kyphotic — Relating to, or exhibiting, kyphosis.
- loch tay — a lake in central Scotland, in Stirling council area. Length: 23 km (14 miles)
- louchely — in an oblique or shifty manner
- maconchy — Dame Elizabeth, married name Elizabeth LeFanu. 1907–94, British composer of Irish parentage; noted esp for her chamber music, which includes 13 string quartets and Romanza (1980) for viola and ensemble
- monarchy — a state or nation in which the supreme power is actually or nominally lodged in a monarch. Compare absolute monarchy, limited monarchy.
- nomarchy — one of the provinces into which modern Greece is divided.
- octarchy — a government by eight persons.
- onychite — a type of marble stone
- onychium — a small fern plant of Old World tropics and subtropics
- physico- — physical, physical and
- phytonic — of or relating to a phyton
- polyarch — (of a woody tissue) having multiple points of origin
- prophecy — the foretelling or prediction of what is to come.
- psychoid — the innate impetus to perform actions
- psychol. — psychological
- psychro- — cold
- pythonic — prophetic; oracular.
- schlocky — schlock (def 1).
- schmoozy — of or relating to schmoozing
- shockley — William Bradford, 1910–1989, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1956.
- splotchy — marked or covered with splotches.
- stomachy — paunchy; having a prominent stomach.
- synchro- — indicating synchronization
- theodicy — a vindication of the divine attributes, particularly holiness and justice, in establishing or allowing the existence of physical and moral evil.
- zoochory — the dispersal of plant spores or seeds by animals