8-letter words containing h, a, c, k
- hrdlicka — Aleš [ah-lesh] /ˈɑ lɛʃ/ (Show IPA), 1869–1943, U.S. anthropologist, born in Austria-Hungary.
- humpback — a back that is humped in a convex position.
- icekhana — an auto-racing competition testing driving skills on a frozen lake.
- ichikawa — a city on E Honshu, in Japan, NE of Tokyo.
- jackfish — any of several pikes, especially the northern pike.
- jackshit — Alternative spelling of jack shit.
- ka-ching — expressing sth moneymaking
- kachahri — (in India) a courthouse
- kachinas — Plural form of kachina.
- karachai — a member of a people living mainly in the Karachai-Cherkess Republic, closely related to the Balkar.
- kazachoc — a traditional Cossack dance
- kazachok — a lively, Slavic folk dance for a solo male dancer, marked especially by the prisiadka.
- keychain — A chain or ring to which a key may be attached.
- khichadi — Alternative form of khichdi.
- kiamichi — a river in SE Oklahoma, flowing SW and SE to the Red River. 165 miles (266 km) long.
- kiaochow — a former German-leased territory (1898–1914) on the Shandong peninsula, in E China, around Jiaozhou Bay. 200 sq. mi. (518 sq. km). Chief city, Tsingtao.
- kickshaw — a tidbit or delicacy, especially one served as an appetizer or hors d'oeuvre.
- klatches — Plural form of klatch.
- knackish — cunning or artful
- kolaches — Plural form of kolache.
- kombucha — Also called kombucha mushroom. a live culture of multiple species of yeast and bacteria, grown to make a mildly alcoholic fermented beverage.
- kootchar — any of several small, stingless Australian honeybees of the genus Trigona.
- kreplach — Jewish Cookery. turnovers or pockets of noodle dough filled with any of several mixtures, as kasha or chopped chicken livers, usually boiled, and served in soup.
- latchkey — a key for releasing a latch or springlock, especially on an outer door.
- lifehack — Informal. a tip, trick, or efficient method for doing or managing a day-to-day task or activity; a hack: a lifehack for overcoming social anxiety; a computer programmer's best lifehacks.
- lockhart — John Gibson, 1794–1854, Scottish biographer and novelist.
- muckheap — Dunghill; dung heap.
- nunchaku — Sometimes, nunchakus. a Japanese hand weapon for defense against frontal assault, consisting of two foot-long hardwood sticks joined by a chain or thick cord that stretches to body width.
- 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.
- pak-choi — bok choy.
- paycheck — a bank check given as salary or wages.
- pushback — a mechanism that forces an object backward.
- quackish — a fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill.
- rickshaw — jinrikisha.
- schapska — a cavalry helmet with a flat, square top
- shabrack — the saddlecloth of a cavalry horse used by European light cavalry
- shack up — a rough cabin; shanty.
- shackled — a ring or other fastening, as of iron, for securing the wrist, ankle, etc.; fetter.
- shackles — two metal rings joined by a chain which are fastened around someone's wrists or ankles in order to prevent them from moving or escaping
- shaddock — pomelo.
- shamrock — any of several trifoliate plants, as the wood sorrel, Oxalis acetosella, or a small, pink-flowered clover, Trifolium repens minus, but especially Trifolium procumbens, a small, yellow-flowered clover: the national emblem of Ireland.
- shellack — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
- skeechan — a beer of treacle and malt liquor
- the jack — venereal disease
- the rack — an instrument of torture that stretched the body of the victim
- the sack — dismissal from employment
- tuckahoe — Also called Indian bread. the edible, underground sclerotium of the fungus Poria cocos, found on the roots of trees in the southern United States.
- unhacked — not cut or hacked
- wangchuk — Jigme Dorji [jig-mey dawr-jee] /ˈdʒɪg meɪ ˈdɔr dʒi/ (Show IPA), 1929–72, king of Bhutan 1952–72.
- whacking — large.