8-letter words containing c, i, r, h
- hickorys — a city in W North Carolina.
- 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.
- 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.
- hrdlicka — Aleš [ah-lesh] /ˈɑ lɛʃ/ (Show IPA), 1869–1943, U.S. anthropologist, born in Austria-Hungary.
- hydracid — an acid that does not contain oxygen, as hydrochloric acid, HCl.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- machairs — Plural form of machair.
- machiner — One who operates a machine.
- marching — to touch at the border; border.
- mariachi — pertaining to traditional Mexican dance music, usually played by a small band of strolling musicians dressed in native costumes.
- marichal — Juan, born 1937, U.S. baseball pitcher, born in the Dominican Republic.
- melchior — one of the three Magi.
- merchild — a mythical creature with the upper body of a child and the lower body of a fish
- michener — (Daniel) Roland, 1900–91, Canadian public official and diplomat: governor general 1967–74.
- micromho — one millionth of a mho or siemens
- minarchy — (countable) Government with the least necessary power over its citizens.
- mithraic — of Mithras or Mithraism
- mitscher — Marc Andrew, 1887–1947, U.S. naval officer and aviator.