8-letter words containing a, d, h, o
- cokehead — a person who takes cocaine regularly
- conehead — a stupid person.
- cowhands — Plural form of cowhand.
- dalmahoy — a bushy wig
- damehood — The fact or condition of being a dame.
- damrosch — Walter (Johannes)1862-1950; U.S. conductor & composer, born in Germany
- dash off — If you dash off to a place, you go there very quickly.
- dashpots — Plural form of dashpot.
- diadochi — the six Macedonian generals who, after the death of Alexander the Great, fought for control of his empire in the Wars of the Diadochi (321–281 bc)
- diadochy — the replacement of one element in a crystal by another
- diaphone — the set of all realizations of a given phoneme in a language
- diaphony — a style of two-part polyphonic singing; organum or a freer form resembling it
- diphonia — diplophonia.
- dishoard — to put previously withheld (money) into circulation
- dochmiac — resembling a dochmius in form or structure
- dockhand — a dockworker.
- dogpatch — a poor rural community in the U.S., especially in the South, whose inhabitants are unsophisticated and have little education: He acts like he's been raised in a Dogpatch.
- dogwatch — Nautical. either of two two-hour watches, the first from 4 to 6 p.m., the latter from 6 to 8 p.m.
- dohnanyi — Ernst von [ernst fuh n] /ɛrnst fən/ (Show IPA), or Ernő [er-nœ] /ˈɛr nœ/ (Show IPA), 1877–1960, Hungarian pianist and composer in the U.S.
- dong hai — East China Sea.
- dopehead — a drug addict.
- dorothea — a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “gift of God.”.
- downhaul — any of various lines for pulling down a sail or a yard, as for securing in a lowered position when not in use.
- downwash — a deflection of air downward relative to an airfoil that causes the deflection.
- dramshop — bar; barroom; saloon.
- drawhole — a funnel-shaped vertical opening cut at the bottom of a stope, which permits the loading of ore into conveyances in the passageways below.
- drogheda — a seaport in the NE Republic of Ireland, near the mouth of the Boyne River: the town was captured by Cromwell in 1649 and its garrisons as well as many male inhabitants put to the sword.
- drophead — (British) Shortened form of 'drophead coupé'.
- duathlon — An athletic contest consisting of running and cycling.
- dyschroa — an alteration of colour on the skin
- falshood — Obsolete spelling of falsehood.
- fathomed — a unit of length equal to six feet (1.8 meters): used chiefly in nautical measurements. Abbreviation: fath.
- forehand — (in tennis, squash, etc.) of, relating to, or noting a stroke made from the same side of the body as that of the hand holding the racket, paddle, etc. Compare backhand (def 5).
- forehead — the part of the face above the eyebrows; brow.
- forkhead — the head of an arrow
- galoshed — Wearing galoshes.
- gheraoed — Simple past tense and past participle of gherao.
- go ahead — permission or a signal to proceed: They got the go-ahead on the construction work.
- go-ahead — permission or a signal to proceed: They got the go-ahead on the construction work.
- goatherd — a person who tends goats.
- godheads — Plural form of godhead.
- hadronic — (physics) of, related to, or composed of hadrons.
- hailwood — Mike, full name Stanley Michael Bailey Hailwood. 1940–81, English racing motorcyclist: world champion (250 cc.) 1961 and 1966–67; (350 cc.) 1966–67; and (500 cc.) 1962–65
- hakodate — a seaport on S Hokkaido, in N Japan.
- half-rod — a unit of length equal to 2.75 yards or 8.25 feet (2.52 meters).
- halfword — (computing) An area of storage one half the size of the word in a particular system; usually two bytes.
- halidome — a holy place, as a church or sanctuary.
- hallooed — Simple past tense and past participle of halloo.
- hallowed — regarded as holy; venerated; sacred: Hallowed be Thy name; the hallowed saints; our hallowed political institutions.
- hand job — an act of masturbation.