8-letter words containing h, i, c
- mechitza — a screen in a synagogue separating men and women
- melchior — one of the three Magi.
- melchite — a Christian in Egypt and Syria who accepted the definition of faith adopted by the Council of Chalcedon in a.d. 451.
- mephitic — offensive to the smell.
- merchild — a mythical creature with the upper body of a child and the lower body of a fish
- methodic — performed, disposed, or acting in a systematic way; systematic; orderly: a methodical person.
- methylic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the methyl group.
- michelet — Jules [zhyl] /ʒül/ (Show IPA), 1798–1874, French historian.
- michelin — André (ɑ̃dre). 1853–1931, French industrialist; founder, with his brother Édouard Michelin (1859–1940), of the Michelin Tyre Company (1888): the first to use demountable pneumatic tyres on motor vehicles
- michelle — a female given name.
- michener — (Daniel) Roland, 1900–91, Canadian public official and diplomat: governor general 1967–74.
- michigan — a state in the N central United States. 58,216 sq. mi. (150,780 sq. km). Capital: Lansing. Abbreviation: MI (for use with zip code), Mich.
- micromho — one millionth of a mho or siemens
- midwatch — middle watch.
- minarchy — (countable) Government with the least necessary power over its citizens.
- mischief — conduct or activity that playfully causes petty annoyance.
- mishnaic — the collection of oral laws compiled about a.d. 200 by Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi and forming the basic part of the Talmud.
- mismatch — to match badly or unsuitably.
- mispatch — to patch wrongly
- misteach — to teach wrongly or badly.
- mistouch — To touch inappropriately, wrongly or by mistake.
- mitchell — Arthur, born 1934, U.S. ballet dancer, choreographer, and ballet company director.
- mitching — Present participle of mitch.
- mithraic — of Mithras or Mithraism
- mitscher — Marc Andrew, 1887–1947, U.S. naval officer and aviator.
- mizrachi — a Zionist movement, founded in 1902, chiefly devoted to furthering the integration of Zionism and religious orthodoxy.
- mooching — Present participle of mooch.
- mouching — to borrow (a small item or amount) without intending to return or repay it.
- mouchoir — a handkerchief.
- mulching — (agriculture) Used for applying a mulch.
- munchies — crunchy or chewy. Informal. for snacking: munchy foods like popcorn and cookies.
- munching — to chew with steady or vigorous working of the jaws, often audibly.
- munchkin — a small person, especially one who is dwarfish or elfin in appearance.
- mutchkin — Scot. a unit of liquid measure equal to a little less than a U.S. liquid pint.
- mythical — pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a myth.
- nanching — a port in and the capital of Jiangsu province, in E China, on the Chang Jiang: a former capital of China.
- new-rich — newly or suddenly wealthy.
- niarchos — Stavros Spyros [stahv-raws spee-raws] /ˈstɑv rɔs ˈspi rɔs/ (Show IPA), 1909–1996, Greek businessman and shipowner.
- nichiren — (Zennichi; Zenshobo Rencho) 1222–82, Japanese Buddhist monk: founder of Nichiren Buddhism.
- nicholas — (Thomas Parentucelli) 1397?–1455, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1447–55.
- nichrome — An alloy of nickel with chromium (10 to 20 percent) and sometimes iron (up to 25 percent), used chiefly in high-temperature applications such as electrical heating elements.
- nightcap — Informal. an alcoholic drink taken at bedtime or at the end of a festive evening.
- noachian — of or relating to the patriarch Noah or his time.
- nonohmic — of or pertaining to that which does not obey Ohm's law
- notching — an angular or V -shaped cut, indentation, or slit in an object, surface, or edge.
- nuraghic — relating to the Bronze Age Sardinian civilization that is distinguished by nuraghe
- nurhachi — 1559–1626, Manchurian leader, who unified the Manchurian state and began (1618) the Manchurian conquest of China
- ochidore — a crab, variously the shore crab (Carcinus Maenas), spider crab (esp of the family Maioidea), or swimming crab (esp of the family Portunidae)
- ochlesis — any disease caused by overcrowding.
- ochozias — Ahaziah.