7-letter words containing n, i, c, h
- echidna — Also called spiny anteater. any of several insectivorous monotremes of the genera Tachyglossus, of Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea, and Zaglossus, of New Guinea, that have claws and a slender snout and are covered with coarse hair and long spines.
- echino- — indicating spiny or prickly
- echinus — any sea urchin of the genus Echinus.
- echoing — (of a sound) Be repeated or reverberate after the original sound has stopped.
- enchain — Bind with or as with chains.
- etching — A print produced by the process of etching.
- ethenic — (chemistry) Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling ethene or ethylene.
- ethnica — Plural form of ethnicon.
- ethnics — Plural form of ethnic.
- finched — Simple past tense and past participle of finch.
- finches — Plural form of finch.
- fuchsin — a greenish, water-soluble, solid, coal-tar derivative, obtained by the oxidation of a mixture of aniline and the toluidines, that forms deep-red solutions: used chiefly as a dye.
- gnathic — of or relating to the jaw.
- gnocchi — a dish of little dumplings made from potatoes, semolina, flour, or a combination of these ingredients.
- gronchi — Giovanni [jaw-vahn-nee] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni/ (Show IPA), 1887–1978, Italian statesman: president 1955–62.
- h chain — either of an identical pair of Y -shaped polypeptides that, together with the light chains, constitute the antibody molecule.
- hacking — a rack for drying food, as fish.
- hedonic — of, characterizing, or pertaining to pleasure: a hedonic thrill.
- helicon — a mountain in S central Greece. 5738 feet (1749 meters): regarded by ancient Greeks as the abode of Apollo and the Muses.
- henotic — serving to reconcile; promoting peace
- hichens — Robert Smythe [smahyth,, smahyth] /smaɪð,, smaɪθ/ (Show IPA), 1864–1950, English novelist.
- hicking — Present participle of hick.
- hircine — of, relating to, or resembling a goat.
- hocking — the state of being deposited or held as security; pawn: She was forced to put her good jewelry in hock.
- hygenic — Misspelling of hygienic.
- i ching — an ancient Chinese book of divination and a source of Confucian and Taoist philosophy. Answers to questions and advice may be obtained by referring to the text accompanying one of 64 hexagrams, selected at random
- ichnite — a fossil footprint.
- in hock — If someone is in hock, they are in debt.
- inchant — Obsolete form of enchant.
- inching — a unit of length, 1/12 (0.0833) foot, equivalent to 2.54 centimeters.
- inchpin — the sweetbread of a deer
- inhance — Obsolete spelling of enhance.
- itching — of, relating to, or characterized by an irritating sensation of the skin.
- ithacan — one of the Ionian Islands, off the W coast of Greece: legendary home of Ulysses. 37 sq. mi. (96 sq. km). Greek Itháki.
- jacinth — a female given name, form of Hyacinth.
- kachina — any of various ancestral spirits deified by the Hopi Indians and impersonated in religious rituals by masked dancers.
- kanchil — A small, agile chevrotain of the genus Tragulus.
- kinchin — a child.
- kitchen — a room or place equipped for cooking.
- kitchin — Obsolete form of kitchen.
- kuching — a state in the federation of Malaysia, on NW Borneo: formerly a British crown colony (1946–63) and British protectorate (1888–1946). About 50,000 sq. mi. (129,500 sq. km). Capital: Kuching.
- kutchin — a member of a group of North American Indians who live in the region of the lower Mackenzie River in northwestern Canada and the Yukon and Porcupine rivers of northeastern Alaska.
- l chain — Immunology. either of an identical pair of polypeptides in the antibody molecule that lie parallel to the upper parts of the heavy chain pair and are half the molecular weight.
- lachine — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Quebec, on the St. Lawrence.
- leching — to behave like a lecher (often followed by for or after).
- lichens — Plural form of lichen.
- linches — Plural form of linch.
- lychnis — any showy-flowered plant belonging to the genus Lychnis, of the pink family.
- machine — an apparatus consisting of interrelated parts with separate functions, used in the performance of some kind of work: a sewing machine.
- mahican — a tribe or confederacy of Algonquian-speaking North American Indians, centralized formerly in the upper Hudson valley.