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8-letter words containing n, i, c, h, o

  • 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.
  • oinochoe — a wine pitcher or jug, characterized by a curved handle extending from the lip to the shoulder, and a round or trefoil mouth.
  • omniarch — A ruler of the world.
  • onychite — a type of marble stone
  • onychium — a small fern plant of Old World tropics and subtropics
  • ornithic — of or relating to birds.
  • orthicon — a camera tube, more sensitive than the iconoscope, in which a beam of low-velocity electrons scans a photoemissive mosaic.
  • pachinko — a Japanese pinball game played on a vertical machine in which slots struck by the player's ball release other balls that in turn are exchanged for noncash prizes.
  • parochin — a parish
  • phenolic — Also called carbolic acid, hydroxybenzene, oxybenzene, phenylic acid. a white, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous mass, C 6 H 5 OH, obtained from coal tar, or a hydroxyl derivative of benzene: used chiefly as a disinfectant, as an antiseptic, and in organic synthesis.
  • phonemic — of or relating to phonemes: a phonemic system.
  • phonetic — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
  • photonic — of or relating to processes involving photons.
  • phytonic — of or relating to a phyton
  • pinochet — Augusto (auˈɣusto). 1915-2006, Chilean general and statesman; president of Chile (1974–90) following his overthrow of Allende (1973): charged (2001) with murder and kidnapping but found unfit to stand trial
  • pinochle — a popular card game played by two, three, or four persons, with a 48-card deck.
  • pitch on — to erect or set up (a tent, camp, or the like).
  • poaching — the illegal practice of trespassing on another's property to hunt or steal game without the landowner's permission.
  • pouching — a bag, sack, or similar receptacle, especially one for small articles or quantities: a tobacco pouch.
  • pythonic — prophetic; oracular.
  • rhodanic — of or relating to thiocyanic acid
  • richmond — a state in the E United States, on the Atlantic coast: part of the historical South. 40,815 sq. mi. (105,710 sq. km). Capital: Richmond. Abbreviation: VA (for use with zip code), Va.
  • roaching — Nautical. the upward curve at the foot of a square sail. (loosely) a convexity given to any of the edges of a sail; round.
  • schizont — (in the asexual reproduction of certain sporozoans) a cell developed from a trophozoite, which undergoes multiple fission to form merozoites.
  • shocking — causing intense surprise, disgust, horror, etc.
  • technion — (body)   Israel Institute of Technology. Address: Haifa, Israel.
  • torching — a light to be carried in the hand, consisting of some combustible substance, as resinous wood, or of twisted flax or the like soaked with tallow or other flammable substance, ignited at the upper end.
  • touching — affecting; moving; pathetic: a touching scene of farewell.
  • trichion — the point of intersection of the normal hairline and the middle line of the forehead.
  • unheroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
  • vouching — to support as being true, certain, reliable, etc. (usually followed by for): Her record in office vouches for her integrity.
  • zecchino — sequin (defs 2–4).
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