8-letter words containing l, y, c, h
- helicity — Helical character, especially of DNA.
- hickymal — a titmouse
- hillocky — Resembling a hillock.
- hinckley — a town in central England, in Leicestershire. Pop: 43 246 (2001)
- hitchily — with hitches or in a hitchy or jerky manner
- holarchy — a system composed of interacting holons
- holy cow — astonishment
- hylicism — the philosophy that the only thing that can be proven to exist is matter and that everything, including consciousness, is as a result of interaction with material things. Also called materialism
- hylicist — a philosopher specializing in matter
- l'chayim — a toast used in drinking to a person's health or well-being.
- latchkey — a key for releasing a latch or springlock, especially on an outer door.
- lechayim — a toast used in drinking to a person's health or well-being.
- lecythis — any very tall tree of the genus Lecythis
- lecythus — (in ancient Greece) a vase with a narrow neck
- loch tay — a lake in central Scotland, in Stirling council area. Length: 23 km (14 miles)
- louchely — in an oblique or shifty manner
- lychgate — A roofed gateway to a churchyard, formerly used during burials for sheltering a coffin until the clergyman’s arrival.
- lynchers — to put to death, especially by hanging, by mob action and without legal authority.
- lynching — to put to death, especially by hanging, by mob action and without legal authority.
- lynchpin — a pin inserted through the end of an axletree to keep the wheel on.
- methylic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the methyl group.
- mythical — pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a myth.
- patchily — characterized by or made up of patches.
- phenylic — relating to, consisting of or originating from phenyl
- phylarch — the chief of a tribe in Ancient Greece, and in Athens, the head of a clan in battle, or generally, the chief of a tribe
- phyletic — of, relating to, or based on the evolutionary history of a group of organisms; phylogenetic.
- physical — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- pitchily — in a pitchy manner
- polyarch — (of a woody tissue) having multiple points of origin
- psychol. — psychological
- schleppy — slovenly, dowdy, or run-down; frumpy: a schleppy hotel; a schleppy old bathrobe.
- schlocky — schlock (def 1).
- schlumpy — like a schlump
- schuyler — Philip John, 1733–1804, American statesman and general in the Revolutionary War.
- shauchly — (of a person) unsteady or awkward on the feet
- shockley — William Bradford, 1910–1989, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1956.
- splotchy — marked or covered with splotches.
- tetchily — irritable; touchy.
- unchicly — in an unchic fashion; not stylishly; unfashionably
- wych elm — an elm, Ulmus glabra, of northern and western Europe, having large, coarse leaves.
- wych-elm — an elm, Ulmus glabra, of northern and western Europe, having large, coarse leaves.