8-letter words containing a, b, t, h
- hit back — retaliate
- hittable — (of a ball or pitch) capable of being hit
- hoofbeat — the sound made by an animal's hoof in walking, running, etc.
- huntable — capable of being hunted
- hylobate — Any of the genus Hylobates of gibbons.
- inhabits — to live or dwell in (a place), as people or animals: Small animals inhabited the woods.
- isobaths — Plural form of isobath.
- johnboat — a light, square-ended, flat-bottomed skiff, used in shallow water.
- khambhat — Gulf of, a gulf of the Arabian Sea, on the NW coast of India.
- marybeth — a female given name.
- mastabah — Alt form mastaba.
- matchbox — a small box, usually of cardboard, for matches.
- mmabatho — a self-governing Bantu territory of South Africa, consisting of several landlocked areas, along the NE part: granted independence in 1977 by South Africa, but not recognized by any other country as an independent state. 16,988 sq. mi. (44,000 sq. km). Capital: Mmabatho.
- monobath — a developer and fixer combined in the same solution.
- mothball — a small ball of naphthalene or sometimes of camphor for placing in closets or other storage areas to repel moths from clothing, blankets, etc.
- mud bath — skin treatment: soaking in mud
- mudbaths — Plural form of mudbath.
- oathable — having the ability to take an oath or to be believed while on oath
- path lab — pathology laboratory
- pithball — a small ball of pith suspended on a thread inside an early type of electroscope that would indicate the presence and strength of electric charge in an object near or touching it
- rabbitoh — (formerly) an itinerant seller of rabbits for eating
- rathbone — Basil, 1892–1967, English actor, born in South Africa.
- saltbush — any of various plants or shrubs of the genus Atriplex, having mostly alternate leaves and clusters of inconspicuous flowers, often growing in saline or alkaline soil.
- shabuoth — a festival, celebrated on the sixth and seventh days of Sivan by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside Israel but only on the sixth day by Reform Jews and Jews in Israel, that commemorates God's giving of the Ten Commandments to Moses.
- shadbolt — Maurice. 1932–2004, New Zealand novelist
- shawabti — a figurine placed in an ancient Egyptian tomb to serve as a slave for the soul or as a substitute for the soul in performing forced labor.
- showboat — a boat, especially a paddle-wheel steamer, used as a traveling theater.
- spa bath — whirlpool, jacuzzi, hot tub
- stablish — establish.
- staubach — Roger Thomas, born 1942, U.S. football player.
- subshaft — a secondary shaft in a mine
- sun bath — deliberate exposure of the body to the direct rays of the sun or a sunlamp.
- sunbathe — to take a sunbath.
- symbmath — (mathematics, tool) A small symbolic mathematics package for MS-DOS which can learn new facts.
- tab-hang — to eavesdrop
- tabouleh — a salad of fine-ground bulgur, parsley, tomatoes, green onions, mint, olive oil, and lemon juice.
- tarboosh — a tasseled cap of cloth or felt, usually red, that is worn by Muslim men either by itself or as the inner part of the turban.
- tarbrush — a brush for applying tar.
- thalberg — Irving (Grant) 1899–1936, U.S. motion-picture producer.
- the bard — William ("the Bard"; "the Bard of Avon") 1564–1616, English poet and dramatist.
- the bass — the lowest part in a piece of harmony
- the bear — the constellation Ursa Major or Ursa Minor
- the crab — the constellation Cancer, the fourth sign of the zodiac
- the lamb — a title given to Christ in the New Testament
- thebaine — a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble, poisonous alkaloid, C 19 H 21 NO 3 , present in opium in small quantities, but having a strychninelike rather than a narcotic effect.
- theobald — Lewis, 1688–1744, English author.
- thinglab — A simulation system written in Smalltalk-80. It solves constraints using value inference. Version: ThingLab II.
- tithable — subject to the payment of tithes.
- tombaugh — Clyde William, 1906–97, U.S. astronomer: discovered Pluto 1930.
- tribrach — Prosody. a foot of three short syllables.