8-letter words containing c, o, n, h
- notch up — make score marks to count
- notching — an angular or V -shaped cut, indentation, or slit in an object, surface, or edge.
- nowhence — from no place; from nowhere
- nuncheon — (now dialectal, archaic) A drink or light snack taken in the afternoon; a refreshment between meals.
- oenochoe — oinochoe.
- oinochoe — a wine pitcher or jug, characterized by a curved handle extending from the lip to the shoulder, and a round or trefoil mouth.
- omniarch — A ruler of the world.
- on watch — If someone is on watch, they have the job of carefully looking and listening, often while other people are asleep and often as a military duty, so that they can warn them of danger or an attack.
- onychite — a type of marble stone
- onychium — a small fern plant of Old World tropics and subtropics
- oolachan — eulachon.
- orchanet — Alternative form of alkanet.
- ornithic — of or relating to birds.
- orthicon — a camera tube, more sensitive than the iconoscope, in which a beam of low-velocity electrons scans a photoemissive mosaic.
- outpunch — to punch better than
- pachinko — a Japanese pinball game played on a vertical machine in which slots struck by the player's ball release other balls that in turn are exchanged for noncash prizes.
- pancheon — a wide, shallow bowl, originally used for making bread or separating cream
- parochin — a parish
- phenolic — Also called carbolic acid, hydroxybenzene, oxybenzene, phenylic acid. a white, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous mass, C 6 H 5 OH, obtained from coal tar, or a hydroxyl derivative of benzene: used chiefly as a disinfectant, as an antiseptic, and in organic synthesis.
- phonecam — a digital camera incorporated in a mobile phone
- phonemic — of or relating to phonemes: a phonemic system.
- phonetic — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
- photonic — of or relating to processes involving photons.
- phytonic — of or relating to a phyton
- pinochet — Augusto (auˈɣusto). 1915-2006, Chilean general and statesman; president of Chile (1974–90) following his overthrow of Allende (1973): charged (2001) with murder and kidnapping but found unfit to stand trial
- pinochle — a popular card game played by two, three, or four persons, with a 48-card deck.
- pitch on — to erect or set up (a tent, camp, or the like).
- poaching — the illegal practice of trespassing on another's property to hunt or steal game without the landowner's permission.
- ponchoed — wearing a poncho
- pouching — a bag, sack, or similar receptacle, especially one for small articles or quantities: a tobacco pouch.
- puncheon — a heavy slab of timber, roughly dressed, for use as a floorboard.
- pythonic — prophetic; oracular.
- ranchero — a rancher.
- rhodanic — of or relating to thiocyanic acid
- rhonchus — a wheezing or snoring sound heard upon auscultation of the chest, caused by an accumulation of mucus or other material.
- richmond — a state in the E United States, on the Atlantic coast: part of the historical South. 40,815 sq. mi. (105,710 sq. km). Capital: Richmond. Abbreviation: VA (for use with zip code), Va.
- roaching — Nautical. the upward curve at the foot of a square sail. (loosely) a convexity given to any of the edges of a sail; round.
- romansch — a group of Rhaetian dialects spoken in the Swiss canton of Graubünden; an official language of Switzerland since 1938
- rondache — a small, round shield
- schizont — (in the asexual reproduction of certain sporozoans) a cell developed from a trophozoite, which undergoes multiple fission to form merozoites.
- schooner — Nautical. any of various types of sailing vessel having a foremast and mainmast, with or without other masts, and having fore-and-aft sails on all lower masts. See also ketch, topsail schooner, yawl1 (def 2).
- shocking — causing intense surprise, disgust, horror, etc.
- souchong — a variety of black tea grown in India and Sri Lanka.
- sunchoke — Jerusalem artichoke (def 2).
- sunporch — a room with large windows and often a glass roof, built around one of the main entrances to a building
- synchro- — indicating synchronization
- technion — (body) Israel Institute of Technology. Address: Haifa, Israel.
- technol. — technological
- topnotch — first-rate: a topnotch job.
- torching — a light to be carried in the hand, consisting of some combustible substance, as resinous wood, or of twisted flax or the like soaked with tallow or other flammable substance, ignited at the upper end.