8-letter words containing h, c, a, i, n
- conchita — a female given name.
- crankish — mildly eccentric
- crashing — (intensifier) (esp in the phrase a crashing bore)
- dinarchy — duarchy.
- echidnae — Plural form of echidna.
- echidnas — Plural form of echidna.
- echinate — bristly; prickly.
- echiuran — spoonworm
- eichmann — Karl Adolf (ˈaːdɔlf). 1902–62, Austrian Nazi official, who took a leading role in organizing the extermination of the European Jews. He escaped to Argentina after World War II, but was captured and executed in Israel as a war criminal
- eisenach — a city in central Germany, in Thuringia: birthplace of Johann Sebastian Bach. Pop: 44 081 (2003 est)
- enchains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enchain.
- ethanoic — (organic chemistry) IUPAC nomenclature for CH3COO-.
- ethnical — (rare) Ethnic.
- falchion — a broad, short sword having a convex edge curving sharply to the point.
- fasching — a carnival celebration that precedes Lent in German-speaking countries and communities; Shrovetide.
- fichtean — of, relating to, or resembling the philosophy of Johann Fichte.
- hacienda — a large landed estate, especially one used for farming or ranching.
- hackling — Present participle of hackle.
- hadronic — (physics) of, related to, or composed of hadrons.
- 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.
- haptenic — (immunology) Of or pertaining to a hapten.
- harmonic — pertaining to harmony, as distinguished from melody and rhythm.
- hatching — a shading line in drawing or engraving.
- hawfinch — a European grosbeak, Coccothraustes coccothraustes.
- hexanoic — Of or pertaining to hexanoic acid or its derivatives; caproic.
- hindcast — to test (a mathematical model) by observing whether it would have correctly predicted a historical event
- hispanic — Spanish.
- hoactzin — hoatzin.
- humanics — the study of the nature or affairs of humankind.
- hyacinth — a female given name.
- hyrcania — an ancient province of the Persian empire, SE of the Caspian Sea.
- icekhana — an auto-racing competition testing driving skills on a frozen lake.
- inarched — Simple past tense and past participle of inarch.
- inasmuch — To the extent that; insofar as.
- inchmeal — by inches; inch by inch; little by little.
- inchoate — not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary.
- inchtape — a measuring tape marked out in inches
- incroach — Archaic form of encroach.
- jacinthe — a yellowish orange
- johnniac — (computer) A mainframe computer based on a design by John von Neuman built at the Institute for Advanced Study, USA. The Johnniac went live in 1953 and was decommissioned in 1966. Its memory consisted of 80 special "Selectron" vacuum tubes, each of which held 256 bits of data.
- ka-ching — expressing sth moneymaking
- kachinas — Plural form of kachina.
- keychain — A chain or ring to which a key may be attached.
- knackish — cunning or artful
- latching — a device for holding a door, gate, or the like, closed, consisting basically of a bar falling or sliding into a catch, groove, hole, etc.
- leaching — to dissolve out soluble constituents from (ashes, soil, etc.) by percolation.
- lichanos — (in Greek music) a note played using the forefinger
- machinal — Of, or pertaining to machines.
- machined — Simple past tense and past participle of machine.