8-letter words containing c, h, r
- hidrotic — Relating to hidrosis.
- hierarch — a person who rules or has authority in sacred matters; high priest.
- hieratic — Also, hieratical. of or relating to priests or the priesthood; sacerdotal; priestly.
- hijacker — a person who hijacks.
- hipparch — (in ancient Greece) a cavalry commander
- hippuric — of or relating to hippuric acid
- hire car — a car that you rent for a specified, usually short, period
- historic — well-known or important in history: a historic building; historic occasions.
- hobrecht — Jacob [jey-kuh b;; Dutch yah-kawp] /ˈdʒeɪ kəb;; Dutch ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), Obrecht, Jacob.
- holarchy — a system composed of interacting holons
- homecare — The care and maintenance of one's home.
- honecker — Erich [er-ik;; German ey-rikh] /ˈɛr ɪk;; German ˈeɪ rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1912–94, East German Communist leader: chairman of the Council of State 1976–89.
- horchata — (in Spain and Latin American countries) a milky drink made from ground almonds, tiger nuts, or rice.
- hormetic — of or relating to hormesis
- 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.
- horrific — causing horror.
- horsecar — a streetcar drawn by a horse or horses.
- hovercar — A fictional motor car that hovers a short distance above the ground.
- hrdlicka — Aleš [ah-lesh] /ˈɑ lɛʃ/ (Show IPA), 1869–1943, U.S. anthropologist, born in Austria-Hungary.
- huarache — a Mexican sandal having the upper woven of leather strips.
- huaracho — huarache.
- huckster — a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.
- hurcheon — a hedgehog.
- hydracid — an acid that does not contain oxygen, as hydrochloric acid, HCl.
- hydrarch — (of a sere) originating in a wet habitat.
- 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.
- hydropac — an urgent warning of navigational dangers in the Pacific Ocean, issued by the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office.
- hydropic — dropsical.
- hyracoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the mammalian order Hyracoidea, which contains the hyraxes
- hyrcania — an ancient province of the Persian empire, SE of the Caspian Sea.
- hysteric — Usually, hysterics. a fit of uncontrollable laughter or weeping; hysteria.
- hystoric — Nonstandard spelling of historic.
- ichihara — a city in central Honshu, Japan, on Tokyo Bay.
- ichorous — Classical Mythology. an ethereal fluid flowing in the veins of the gods.
- 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.
- ischuria — Ischury.
- isochore — Physics.. Also, isochor. Also called isometric, isometric line. for a given substance, a curve graphing temperature against pressure, when the volume of the substance is held constant.
- isochron — A line on a diagram or map connecting points relating to the same time or equal times.
- issachar — a son of Jacob and Leah. Gen. 30:18.
- kachahri — (in India) a courthouse
- 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.
- kerchunk — A sudden heavy blow or thump.
- kirchner — Ernst Ludwig, 1880–1938, German expressionist artist.
- kootchar — any of several small, stingless Australian honeybees of the genus Trigona.