8-letter words containing arch
- navarchy — experience of or skill in nautical matters
- niarchos — Stavros Spyros [stahv-raws spee-raws] /ˈstɑv rɔs ˈspi rɔs/ (Show IPA), 1909–1996, Greek businessman and shipowner.
- nomarchy — one of the provinces into which modern Greece is divided.
- octarchy — a government by eight persons.
- oligarch — one of the rulers in an oligarchy.
- omniarch — A ruler of the world.
- outmarch — to march faster or farther than.
- overarch — to span with or like an arch: A new bridge overarches the river.
- parching — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
- pentarch — a government by five persons.
- petrarch — (Francesco Petrarca) 1304–74, Italian poet and scholar.
- 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
- plutarch — a.d. c46–c120, Greek biographer.
- polyarch — (of a woody tissue) having multiple points of origin
- pot arch — an auxiliary furnace in which pots used in melting frit are preheated.
- research — to make researches; investigate carefully.
- searched — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
- searcher — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
- semiarch — a half arch.
- starched — a white, tasteless, solid carbohydrate, (C 6 H 1 0 O 5) n , occurring in the form of minute granules in the seeds, tubers, and other parts of plants, and forming an important constituent of rice, corn, wheat, beans, potatoes, and many other vegetable foods.
- synarchy — joint rule
- taxiarch — an Athenian commander in charge of a company of soldiers
- tetrarch — any ruler of a fourth part, division, etc.
- thearchy — the rule or government of God or of a god.
- triarchy — government by three persons.
- unarched — (of a structure) not arched; lacking arches
- unstarch — to free from stiffness