8-letter words containing k, h, a
- chadwick — Sir Edwin. 1800–90, British social reformer, known for his Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain (1842)
- chalk up — If you chalk up a success, a victory, or a number of points in a game, you achieve it.
- chalking — a soft, white, powdery limestone consisting chiefly of fossil shells of foraminifers.
- chalkpit — a quarry for chalk
- chalukya — a dynasty of central India, ruling a.d. c500–753, and restored a.d. 973–1190.
- champaks — Plural form of champak.
- changkol — A type of hoe.
- chanking — to eat noisily or greedily.
- chanukah — Chanukah is the same as Hanukkah.
- chapbook — a book of popular ballads, stories, etc, formerly sold by chapmen or pedlars
- charikar — a city in E Afghanistan, in the Hindu Kush range.
- charkhas — Plural form of charkha.
- charking — charcoal (def 1).
- charlock — a weedy Eurasian plant, Sinapis arvensis (or Brassica kaber), with hairy stems and foliage and yellow flowers: family: Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- charvaka — Lokayatika.
- chatchka — tchotchke
- chechako — cheechako
- chekiang — Zhejiang
- chickpea — Chickpeas are hard round seeds that look like pale-brown peas. They can be cooked and eaten.
- chinbeak — a molding having a convex upper surface and a concave lower one, with a fillet between them; beak.
- chinkara — an Indian gazelle, Gazella gazella bennetti
- choaking — Present participle of choak.
- chokidar — (in India) a warden, custodian, or gatekeeper
- chukkars — one of the periods of play.
- cokehead — a person who takes cocaine regularly
- crankish — mildly eccentric
- dabchick — any of several small grebes of the genera Podiceps and Podilymbus, such as Podiceps ruficollis of the Old World
- daishiki — dashiki
- dashikis — Plural form of dashiki.
- deckhand — A deckhand is a person who does the cleaning and other work on the deck of a ship.
- deckhead — the undersurface of a deck.
- dickhead — If someone calls a man a dickhead, they are saying that they think he is very stupid.
- dockhand — a dockworker.
- fauxhawk — An imitation of the Mohawk (=UK Mohican) hairstyle in which a central tuft is created using gel without having to shave the sides of the head.
- fishcake — a fried ball or cake of shredded fish, especially salt codfish, and mashed potato.
- fishhawk — The osprey.
- fishtank — a glass-sided tank for keeping, displaying, or observing live fish or other aquatic animals.
- forkhead — the head of an arrow
- frankish — of or relating to the Franks.
- freakish — queer; odd; unusual; grotesque: a freakish appearance.
- fuckhead — a stupid or obnoxious person.
- goshawks — Plural form of goshawk.
- gurkhali — the language of the Gurkhas, belonging to the Indic branch of the Indo-European family
- gymkhana — a field day held for equestrians, consisting of exhibitions of horsemanship and much pageantry.
- habakkuk — a Minor Prophet of the 7th century b.c.
- hack off — sever
- hackable — (computing) That can be hacked or broken into; insecure, vulnerable.
- hackbolt — a European seabird, Puffinus major
- hackbuss — Alternative form of hagbut.
- hackette — A female journalist.