8-letter words containing d, a, c, h
- drammach — an uncooked mixture of meal, usually oatmeal, and cold water.
- dutchman — a native or inhabitant of the Netherlands.
- dyschroa — an alteration of colour on the skin
- echidnae — Plural form of echidna.
- echidnas — Plural form of echidna.
- encashed — Simple past tense and past participle of encash.
- enchased — Simple past tense and past participle of enchase.
- endarchy — a central government
- enhanced — enhancement
- fauchard — a shafted weapon having a knifelike blade with a convex cutting edge and a beak on the back for catching the blade of an aggressor's weapon.
- fuckhead — a stupid or obnoxious person.
- gadhelic — Also called Q-Celtic. the subbranch of Celtic in which the Proto-Indo-European kw -sound remained a velar. Irish and Scottish Gaelic belong to Goidelic.
- hachured — one of a series of short parallel lines drawn on a map to indicate topographic relief.
- hacienda — a large landed estate, especially one used for farming or ranching.
- hadronic — (physics) of, related to, or composed of hadrons.
- haggadic — a book containing the liturgy for the Seder service on the Jewish festival of Passover.
- hand-car — a small railroad car or platform on four wheels propelled by a mechanism worked by hand, used on some railroads for inspecting tracks and transporting workers.
- handcars — Plural form of handcar.
- handcart — a small cart drawn or pushed by hand.
- handclap — a clapping of the hands.
- handcuff — a ring-shaped metal device that can be locked around a person's wrist, usually one of a pair connected by a short chain or linked bar; shackle: The police put handcuffs on the suspect.
- handicap — a race or other contest in which certain disadvantages or advantages of weight, distance, time, etc., are placed upon competitors to equalize their chances of winning.
- handpick — to pick by hand.
- hardback — A book with a solid binding.
- hardcase — a container that has a rigid structure
- hardcopy — copy, as computer output printed on paper, that can be read without using a special device (opposed to soft copy).
- hardcore — unswervingly committed; uncompromising; dedicated: a hard-core segregationist.
- hardface — an uncompromising person
- hardhack — a woolly-leaved North American shrub, Spiraea tomentosa, of the rose family, having short, spikelike clusters of rose-colored flowers.
- hardpack — a bag that has a rigid shell
- hardrock — the original form of rock-'n'-roll, basically dependent on a consistently loud and strong beat.
- hardtack — a hard, saltless biscuit, formerly much used aboard ships and for army rations.
- hardwick — Elizabeth, 1916–2007, U.S. novelist and critic.
- haunched — the hip.
- headache — a pain located in the head, as over the eyes, at the temples, or at the base of the skull.
- headachy — having a headache.
- headcase — (informal) A mentally unbalanced, unpredictable person, especially one who displays aggressive behavior.
- headfuck — an experience that is wildly exciting or impressive
- headlice — Alternative form of head lice.
- headlock — a hold in which a wrestler locks an arm around the opponent's head.
- headrace — the race, flume, or channel leading to a water wheel or the like.
- helladic — of or relating to the Bronze Age culture on the mainland of ancient Greece c2900–1100 b.c.
- hendeca- — eleven
- heraclid — a person claiming descent from Hercules, especially one of the Dorian aristocracy of Sparta.
- heraldic — of, relating to, or characteristic of heralds or heraldry: heraldic form; heraldic images; heraldic history; a heraldic device.
- hijacked — Illegally seize (an aircraft, ship, or vehicle) in transit and force it to go to a different destination or use it for one's own purposes.
- hindcast — to test (a mathematical model) by observing whether it would have correctly predicted a historical event
- holdback — the iron or strap on the shaft of a horse-drawn vehicle to which the breeching of the harness is attached, enabling the horse to hold back or to back the vehicle.
- 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.