8-letter words containing h, i, t, e, c
- echinate — bristly; prickly.
- eldritch — Weird and sinister or ghostly.
- empathic — Showing or expressing empathy.
- emphatic — Showing or giving emphasis; expressing something forcibly and clearly.
- enthetic — (esp of infectious diseases) introduced into the body from without
- eolithic — denoting, relating to, or characteristic of the early part of the Stone Age, characterized by the use of crude stone tools
- epitheca — (microbiology, planktology) The upper half of the theca of a thecate protist such as a diatom or dinoflagellate.
- esthetic — Alternative spelling of aesthetic.
- etchings — Plural form of etching.
- ethanoic — (organic chemistry) IUPAC nomenclature for CH3COO-.
- ethicise — Alt form ethicize.
- ethicism — devotion to ethical principles
- ethicist — A person, especially a philosopher, who studies ethics (principles governing right and wrong conduct).
- ethicize — to make or consider as ethical
- ethiopic — the ancient language of Ethiopia, belonging to the Semitic subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic family: a Christian liturgical language
- ethnical — (rare) Ethnic.
- ethnicon — Name of a tribe, ethnonym.
- euphotic — Describing that part of the near-surface ocean in which photosynthesis is possible.
- fecolith — A calcified fecal deposit.
- fetching — charming; captivating.
- fichtean — of, relating to, or resembling the philosophy of Johann Fichte.
- fitchews — Plural form of fitchew.
- flichter — (of birds) to fly feebly; flutter.
- flitches — Plural form of flitch.
- fuchsite — a bright green variety of muscovite having chromium in place of some of the aluminum.
- glitched — a defect or malfunction in a machine or plan.
- glitches — A sudden, usually temporary malfunction or irregularity of equipment.
- haematic — relating to, acting on, having the colour of, or containing blood
- haptenic — (immunology) Of or pertaining to a hapten.
- hecticly — characterized by intense agitation, excitement, confused and rapid movement, etc.: The week before the trip was hectic and exhausting.
- helicity — Helical character, especially of DNA.
- helicopt — to fly or transport using a helicopter
- hellicat — an evil creature
- helvetic — a Swiss Protestant; Zwinglian.
- hemisect — to cut into two equal parts; to bisect, especially along a medial longitudinal plane.
- hepatica — any plant belonging to the genus Hepatica, of the buttercup family, having heart-shaped leaves and delicate purplish, pink, or white flowers.
- hepatics — Plural form of hepatic.
- heretick — Obsolete form of heretic.
- heretics — Plural form of heretic.
- hermetic — made airtight by fusion or sealing.
- hermitic — a person who has withdrawn to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion.
- herpetic — of, relating to, or caused by herpes.
- hiccatee — a fresh-water tortoise native to the Caribbean
- hicksite — a member of the liberal body of Quakers in the U.S., who asserted the sufficiency of the Inner Light in religious life.
- hieratic — Also, hieratical. of or relating to priests or the priesthood; sacerdotal; priestly.
- hocktide — a former festival celebrated on the second Monday and Tuesday after Easter
- homeotic — Of or pertaining to homeosis.
- hormetic — of or relating to hormesis
- hysteric — Usually, hysterics. a fit of uncontrollable laughter or weeping; hysteria.
- ichnites — Plural form of ichnite.