8-letter words containing h, i, c
- in check — to stop or arrest the motion of suddenly or forcibly: He checked the horse at the edge of the cliff.
- in chief — in charge
- in dutch — of, relating to, or characteristic of the natives or inhabitants of the Netherlands or their country or language.
- in touch — If you get in touch with someone, you contact them by writing to them or telephoning them. If you are, keep, or stay in touch with them, you write, phone, or visit each other regularly.
- 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
- inchworm — measuringworm.
- incroach — Archaic form of encroach.
- indrench — to submerge, immerse, or drown (someone in something)
- infotech — Information technology.
- insomuch — to such an extent or degree; so (usually followed by that).
- intrench — Alternative form of entrench.
- iphicles — a son of Alcmene and Amphitryon, the brother of Hercules.
- ischemia — local deficiency of blood supply produced by vasoconstriction or local obstacles to the arterial flow.
- ischemic — local deficiency of blood supply produced by vasoconstriction or local obstacles to the arterial flow.
- ischuria — Ischury.
- isochasm — a line on a map or chart connecting points where auroras are observed with equal frequency.
- isocheim — a line on a map connecting points that have the same mean winter temperature.
- isochore — Physics.. Also, isochor. Also called isometric, isometric line. for a given substance, a curve graphing temperature against pressure, when the volume of the substance is held constant.
- isochron — A line on a diagram or map connecting points relating to the same time or equal times.
- isopachs — Plural form of isopach.
- isotachs — Plural form of isotach.
- issachar — a son of Jacob and Leah. Gen. 30:18.
- itchiest — Superlative form of itchy.
- itchweed — a hellebore, Veratrum album, that is native to Europe
- jacinthe — a yellowish orange
- jackfish — any of several pikes, especially the northern pike.
- jackshit — Alternative spelling of jack shit.
- japhetic — of or relating to Japheth.
- 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
- 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.
- kerchief — a woman's square scarf worn as a covering for the head or sometimes the shoulders.
- kerching — (onomatopoeia, informal, humorous) Said to indicate that someone is obtaining money, especially a comparatively large amount.
- ketching — Present participle of ketch.
- 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.
- kingchow — former name of Jiangling.
- kirchner — Ernst Ludwig, 1880–1938, German expressionist artist.
- kitchens — Plural form of kitchen.
- klephtic — (historical) Relating to the klephts.
- knackish — cunning or artful