8-letter words containing a, g, h, s
- laughers — Plural form of laugher.
- lesghian — Lezghian.
- mageship — the role or office of a mage
- mashgiah — an inspector appointed by a board of Orthodox rabbis to guard against any violation of the Jewish dietary laws in food processing plants, meat markets, etc., where food presumed to be kosher is prepared or served for public consumption.
- mashings — Plural form of mashing.
- mesh bag — bag made of netting
- meshugah — Alternative form of meshugge.
- meshugas — craziness
- meshugga — crazy; insane.
- mishigas — Craziness; silliness; tomfoolery; nonsense.
- moss hag — an area, pit, or hole from which peat has been dug.
- oanshagh — a foolish girl or woman
- oghamist — Alternative capitalization of Oghamist.
- orangish — resembling or suggesting an orange, as in taste, appearance, or color: decorated with orangy-pink flowers.
- phrasing — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- plashing — a gentle splash.
- quashing — Present participle of quash.
- rhagades — linear cracks or scars found in the skin at the angles of the nose and mouth which are one of the later signs of congenital syphilis
- ringhals — a highly venomous snake, Hemachatus haemachatus, of southern Africa, related to the cobras, having one to three light-colored bands across its throat and characterized by its ability to accurately spit its venom up to 7 feet (2.1 meter) away.
- saganash — (among the Algonquian Indians) a European
- sage hen — the sage grouse, especially the female.
- saguache — Sawatch.
- sargodha — a city in NE Pakistan.
- scathing — bitterly severe, as a remark: a scathing review of the play.
- schlager — a type of European popular music focusing on love and feelings
- seahenge — a Bronze Age timber circle discovered off the coast of Norfolk in E England. Dating from 2050 bc, it is thought to have been used as a ceremonial site
- shadings — a slight variation or difference of color, character, etc.
- shafting — a long pole forming the body of various weapons, as lances, halberds, or arrows.
- shag ass — to chase or follow after; pursue.
- shagbark — a hickory, Carya ovata, having shaggy, rough bark and yielding a valuable wood.
- shagpile — (of a carpet or rug) having long, rough fibres
- shagreen — an untanned leather with a granular surface, prepared from the hide of a horse, shark, seal, etc.
- shagroon — a nineteenth-century Australian settler in Canterbury
- shamming — something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax.
- shandong — a maritime province in E China. 59,189 sq. mi. (153,299 sq. km). Capital: Jinan.
- shang ti — the chief of the ancient Chinese gods.
- shangaan — a member of any of the Tsonga-speaking Bantu peoples settled in Mozambique and NE Transvaal, esp one who works in a gold mine
- shanghai — to enroll or obtain (a sailor) for the crew of a ship by unscrupulous means, as by force or the use of liquor or drugs.
- shangqiu — a city in E Henan province, in E China.
- shantung — Shandong.
- shaoxing — a city in NE Zhejiang province, in E China.
- shaoyang — a city in central Hunan province, in E China.
- sharking — a person who preys greedily on others, as by cheating or usury.
- sharping — having a thin cutting edge or a fine point; well-adapted for cutting or piercing: a sharp knife.
- she-goat — a female goat
- sheading — any of the six subdivisions of the Isle of Man
- shealing — a pasture or grazing ground.
- shearing — Usually, shears. (sometimes used with a singular verb) scissors of large size (usually used with pair of). any of various other cutting implements or machines having two blades that resemble or suggest those of scissors.
- shenyang — Pinyin, Wade-Giles. a province in NE China. 58,301 sq. mi. (151,000 sq. km). Capital: Shenyang.
- shigella — any of several rod-shaped aerobic bacteria of the genus Shigella, certain species of which are pathogenic for humans and other warm-blooded animals.