6-letter words containing h, a, c
- echard — the water in soil that is not available for absorption by plants.
- encash — To convert a financial instrument or funding source into cash.
- eparch — The chief bishop of an eparchy.
- epocha — Archaic form of epoch.
- eschar — A dry, dark scab or falling away of dead skin, typically caused by a burn, or by the bite of a mite, or as a result of anthrax infection.
- exarch — (in the Orthodox Church) a bishop lower in rank than a patriarch and having jurisdiction wider than the metropolitan of a diocese.
- flanch — A flange.
- fratch — to disagree; quarrel.
- galcha — a member of an Iranian people inhabiting the Pamirs.
- gathic — an ancient Iranian language of the Indo-European family; the language in which the Gathas were written. Compare Avestan.
- gauche — lacking social grace, sensitivity, or acuteness; awkward; crude; tactless: Their exquisite manners always make me feel gauche.
- gaucho — a native cowboy of the South American pampas, usually of mixed Spanish and Indian ancestry.
- getcha — (colloquial) Contraction of
- gotcha — I have got you (used to express satisfaction at having captured or defeated someone or uncovered their faults).
- guache — Alternative spelling of gouache.
- h-back — a wingback or slotback
- hacked — to place (something) on a hack, as for drying or feeding.
- hackee — (US, dialect) The chickaree or red squirrel.
- hacker — a person, as an artist or writer, who exploits, for money, his or her creative ability or training in the production of dull, unimaginative, and trite work; one who produces banal and mediocre work in the hope of gaining commercial success in the arts: As a painter, he was little more than a hack.
- hackie — hack2 (def 7b).
- hackle — one of the long, slender feathers on the neck or saddle of certain birds, as the domestic rooster, much used in making artificial flies for anglers.
- hackly — rough or jagged, as if hacked: Some minerals break with a hackly fracture.
- haptic — of or relating to the sense of touch: the haptic sensation of holding a real book in your hands.
- hattic — of or relating to the Hatti.
- haunch — the hip.
- havocs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of havoc.
- hawick — a town in SE Scotland, in S central Scottish Borders: knitwear industry. Pop: 14 573 (2001)
- hecate — a goddess of the earth and Hades, associated with sorcery, hounds, and crossroads.
- hecuba — Classical Mythology. the wife of Priam.
- heliac — pertaining to or occurring near the sun, especially applied to such risings and settings of a star as are most nearly coincident with those of the sun while yet visible.
- hepcat — a performer or admirer of jazz, especially swing.
- hexact — hexactinal
- hijack — to steal (cargo) from a truck or other vehicle after forcing it to stop: to hijack a load of whiskey.
- horace — (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) 65–8 b.c, Roman poet and satirist.
- hubcap — a removable cover for the center area of the exposed side of an automobile wheel, covering the axle.
- huesca — a city in NE Spain: Roman town, site of Quintus Sertorius' school (76 bc); 15th-century cathedral and ancient palace of Aragonese kings. Pop: 47 609 (2003 est)
- ichang — Wade-Giles. Yichang.
- inarch — to graft by uniting a growing branch to a stock without separating the branch from its parent stock.
- ischia — an Italian island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, W of Naples: earthquake 1883. 18 sq. mi. (47 sq. km).
- ithaca — one of the Ionian Islands, off the W coast of Greece: legendary home of Ulysses. 37 sq. mi. (96 sq. km). Greek Itháki.
- jascha — a male given name, Russian form of Jacob or James.
- kaccha — (Sikhism) An undergarment worn by baptized Sikhs, one of the five Ks.
- kechua — Quechua.
- klatch — a casual gathering of people, especially for refreshments and informal conversation: a sewing klatsch.
- kochia — any plant of the widely distributed annual genus Kochia, esp K. Scoparia trichophila, grown for its foliage, which turns dark red in the late summer: family Chenopodiaceae
- kutcha — crude, imperfect, or temporary.
- kwacha — a cupronickel coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Malawi, equal to 100 tambala. Abbreviation: K.
- laches — failure to do something at the proper time, especially such delay as will bar a party from bringing a legal proceeding.
- lamech — the son of Enoch, and the father of Jabal, Jubal, and Tubal-cain. Gen. 4:18.
- launch — to set (a boat or ship) in the water.