8-letter words containing h, e, p, c
- hepcidin — A hormone produced by the liver that regulates iron homeostasis in mammals.
- heptarch — A heptarchist.
- herpetic — of, relating to, or caused by herpes.
- hiccuped — Simple past tense and past participle of hiccup.
- hospices — Plural form of hospice.
- hyphenic — relating to a hyphen
- hypothec — Roman and Civil Law. a mortgage or security held by a creditor on the property of a debtor without possession of it, created either by agreement or by operation of law.
- impleach — to intertwine
- inchtape — a measuring tape marked out in inches
- iphicles — a son of Alcmene and Amphitryon, the brother of Hercules.
- japhetic — of or relating to Japheth.
- keypunch — Also, key punch. Also called card punch. a machine, operated by a keyboard, for coding information by punching holes in cards or paper tape in specified patterns.
- klephtic — (historical) Relating to the klephts.
- 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.
- logperch — a darter, Percina caprodes, of eastern North American lakes and streams, having a piglike snout.
- mephitic — offensive to the smell.
- muckheap — Dunghill; dung heap.
- pabouche — a soft shoe
- pancheon — a wide, shallow bowl, originally used for making bread or separating cream
- parhelic — of or like a parhelion or parhelia
- pastiche — a literary, musical, or artistic piece consisting wholly or chiefly of motifs or techniques borrowed from one or more sources.
- patchery — the act of hurriedly patching something together
- pathetic — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
- pathspec — pathname
- paunched — a large and protruding belly; potbelly.
- paycheck — a bank check given as salary or wages.
- pb cache — Pipeline Burst Cache
- peaching — to inform against an accomplice or associate.
- pechenga — a village in the NW Russian Federation, on the Arctic Ocean W of Murmansk: ice-free all year; ceded by Finland 1944.
- peiching — Beijing.
- penchant — a strong inclination, taste, or liking for something: a penchant for outdoor sports.
- penneech — a card game in which the seven of diamonds is the highest card and the trump suit changes with each trick
- pentarch — a government by five persons.
- penuchle — pinochle.
- perchery — a barn in which hens are allowed to move without restriction
- petchary — a grey kingbird, Tyrannus dominicensis
- petechia — a minute, round, nonraised hemorrhage in the skin or in a mucous or serous membrane.
- petrarch — (Francesco Petrarca) 1304–74, Italian poet and scholar.
- phacelia — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Phacelia, of the waterleaf family, chiefly of the western U.S. and Mexico, having clusters of violet, blue, or white flowers.
- phaeacia — an island nation on the shores of which Odysseus was shipwrecked and discovered by Nausicaä.
- phenetic — pertaining to or based on the observable similarities and differences between organisms without regard to assumed genealogy.
- phenicia — an ancient kingdom on the Mediterranean, in the region of modern Syria, Lebanon, and Israel.
- phenolic — Also called carbolic acid, hydroxybenzene, oxybenzene, phenylic acid. a white, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous mass, C 6 H 5 OH, obtained from coal tar, or a hydroxyl derivative of benzene: used chiefly as a disinfectant, as an antiseptic, and in organic synthesis.
- phenylic — relating to, consisting of or originating from phenyl
- phonecam — a digital camera incorporated in a mobile phone
- phonemic — of or relating to phonemes: a phonemic system.
- phonetic — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
- phreatic — noting or pertaining to ground water.
- phyletic — of, relating to, or based on the evolutionary history of a group of organisms; phylogenetic.
- pincheck — a very small check woven into fabric, much used in the manufacture of men's and women's suits.