8-letter words containing e, r, c, h
- sketcher — a simply or hastily executed drawing or painting, especially a preliminary one, giving the essential features without the details.
- sloucher — to sit or stand with an awkward, drooping posture.
- smoocher — to kiss.
- snatcher — to make a sudden effort to seize something, as with the hand; grab (usually followed by at).
- sopheric — relating to Jewish scribes
- spherics — Also, sferics. (used with a singular verb) a branch of meteorology in which electronic devices are used to forecast the weather and to study atmospheric conditions.
- spitcher — the end or finish
- stancher — staunch2 .
- starched — a white, tasteless, solid carbohydrate, (C 6 H 1 0 O 5) n , occurring in the form of minute granules in the seeds, tubers, and other parts of plants, and forming an important constituent of rice, corn, wheat, beans, potatoes, and many other vegetable foods.
- stitcher — one complete movement of a threaded needle through a fabric or material such as to leave behind it a single loop or portion of thread, as in sewing, embroidery, or the surgical closing of wounds.
- strachey — (Giles) Lytton [jahylz lit-n] /dʒaɪlz ˈlɪt n/ (Show IPA), 1880–1932, English biographer and literary critic.
- stretchy — having a tendency to stretch, especially excessively or unduly.
- telechir — a robot arm controlled by a human operator
- tetrarch — any ruler of a fourth part, division, etc.
- teuchter — a derogatory word used by Lowlanders for a Highlander
- thatcher — Margaret (Hilda) 1925–2013, British political leader: prime minister 1979–90.
- the crab — the constellation Cancer, the fourth sign of the zodiac
- the crow — the constellation Corvus
- the crud — a disease; rot
- the rack — an instrument of torture that stretched the body of the victim
- the rich — wealthy people
- thearchy — the rule or government of God or of a god.
- theatric — of or relating to the theater or dramatic presentations: theatrical performances.
- theocrat — a person who rules, governs as a representative of God or a deity, or is a member of the ruling group in a theocracy, as a divine king or a high priest.
- theurgic — a system of beneficent magic practiced by the Egyptian Platonists and others.
- thoraces — Anatomy. the part of the trunk in humans and higher vertebrates between the neck and the abdomen, containing the cavity, enclosed by the ribs, sternum, and certain vertebrae, in which the heart, lungs, etc., are situated; chest.
- thridace — a sedative made from lettuce juice
- torchere — a tall stand for a candelabrum.
- torchier — of, relating to, or characteristic of a torch song or a torch singer.
- tracheae — Anatomy, Zoology. the tube in humans and other air-breathing vertebrates extending from the larynx to the bronchi, serving as the principal passage for conveying air to and from the lungs; the windpipe.
- tracheal — Anatomy, Zoology. pertaining to or connected with the trachea or tracheae.
- tracheid — an elongated, tapering xylem cell having lignified, pitted, intact walls, adapted for conduction and support. Compare vessel (def 5).
- tracheo- — denoting the trachea
- trachyte — a fine-grained volcanic rock consisting essentially of alkali feldspar and one or more subordinate minerals, as hornblende or mica: the extrusive equivalent of syenite.
- tranched — Finance. one part or division of a larger unit, as of an asset pool or investment: The loan will be repaid in three tranches. a group of securities that share a certain characteristic and form part of a larger offering: The second tranche of the bond issue has a five-year maturity.
- tranchet — a stone implement with a horizontal, chisellike cutting edge, found at Mesolithic and Neolithic sites in macrolithic form, used as an adz, and in microlithic form, often mounted as the cutting head of an arrow.
- trauchle — to fatigue; tire; wear out.
- treacher — a traitor; treacherous person
- trencher — a person or thing that digs trenches.
- trenches — Fortification. a long, narrow excavation in the ground, the earth from which is thrown up in front to serve as a shelter from enemy fire or attack.
- trichite — any of various minute, hairlike mineral bodies occurring in certain vitreous igneous rocks, especially obsidian.
- trichome — Botany. an outgrowth from the epidermis of plants, as a hair.
- troches' — a small tablet or lozenge, usually a circular one, made of medicinal substance worked into a paste with sugar and mucilage or the like, and dried.
- trochite — an individual section of the stalk of a fossil crinoid, resembling a small wheel
- trochlea — a pulleylike structure or arrangement of parts.
- twitcher — to tug or pull at with a quick, short movement; pluck: She twitched him by the sleeve.
- unarched — (of a structure) not arched; lacking arches
- unbreech — to remove the breeches from (a person)
- uncharge — to acquit.
- uncipher — to decode; decipher