7-letter words containing a, h, n
- machans — Plural form of machan.
- machaon — a son of Asclepius who was famed as a healer and who served as physician of the Greeks in the Trojan War.
- machine — an apparatus consisting of interrelated parts with separate functions, used in the performance of some kind of work: a sewing machine.
- mahants — Plural form of mahant.
- mahican — a tribe or confederacy of Algonquian-speaking North American Indians, centralized formerly in the upper Hudson valley.
- mahjong — a game of Chinese origin usually played by four persons with 144 dominolike pieces or tiles marked in suits, counters, and dice, the object being to build a winning combination of pieces.
- mahonia — any of various evergreen shrubs belonging to the genus Mahonia, of the barberry family, including the Oregon grape.
- mahound — Archaic. Muhammad.
- mahuang — a Chinese shrub, Ephedra sinica, that is a source of ephedrine.
- manchet — a kind of white bread made from the finest flour.
- manetho — flourished c250 b.c, Egyptian high priest of Heliopolis: author of a history of Egypt.
- manhire — Bill. born 1946, New Zealand poet and writer. His poetry collections include How to Take Off Your Clothes at the Picnic (1977), Zoetropes (1984), Sunshine (1996), and Lifted (2005)
- manhole — a hole, usually with a cover, through which a person may enter a sewer, drain, steam boiler, etc., especially one located in a city street.
- manhood — the state or time of being a man or adult male person; male maturity.
- manhour — Alternative form of man-hour.
- manhunt — an intensive search for a criminal, suspect, escaped convict, etc., as by law enforcement agencies.
- manihot — (obsolete) manioc.
- mannish — being typical or suggestive of a man rather than a woman: mannish clothing styles for women; a mannish voice.
- manship — The characteristic of being a man; maleness; masculinity; manliness; manhood.
- marchen — a German fairy tale or fictional story
- mashing — Present participle of mash.
- mashman — a person who is involved in the production of mash
- mashona — Shona (def 1).
- maunche — a conventional representation of a sleeve with a flaring end, used as a charge.
- mccahon — Colin. 1919–87, influential New Zealand painter; noted esp for landscapes and bold abstract paintings, many featuring lettering and Christian imagery
- mcluhan — Marshall, 1911–80, Canadian cultural historian and mass-communications theorist.
- mcmahon — Sir William. 1908–88, Australian statesman; prime minister of Australia (1971–72)
- mehuman — one of the seven eunuchs who served in the court of King Ahasuerus. Esther 1:10.
- menasha — a city in E Wisconsin.
- menorah — a candelabrum having seven branches (as used in the Biblical tabernacle or the Temple in Jerusalem), or any number of branches (as used in modern synagogues).
- methane — a colorless, odorless, flammable gas, CH 4 , the main constituent of marsh gas and the firedamp of coal mines, obtained commercially from natural gas: the first member of the methane, or alkane, series of hydrocarbons.
- minchah — the daily Jewish religious service conducted in the afternoon.
- mishnah — the collection of oral laws compiled about a.d. 200 by Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi and forming the basic part of the Talmud.
- mohegan — a member of a group of Pequot Indians that broke with the Pequot and then fought against them in the Pequot War.
- mohican — Mahican.
- monarch — a hereditary sovereign, as a king, queen, or emperor.
- morphan — A chemical compound, the base of the benzomorphan family of drugs.
- munhall — a city in W Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh.
- naggish — tending to nag; somewhat nagging.
- nahuatl — a member of any of various peoples of ancient origin ranging from southeastern Mexico to parts of Central America and including the Aztecs.
- nalchik — an autonomous republic in the Russian Federation in N Caucasia, N of the Georgian Republic. 4747 sq. mi. (12,295 sq. km). Capital: Nalchik.
- nan hai — South China Sea.
- naphtha — a colorless, volatile petroleum distillate, usually an intermediate product between gasoline and benzine, used as a solvent, fuel, etc. Compare mineral spirits.
- narthex — an enclosed passage between the main entrance and the nave of a church.
- narwhal — a small arctic whale, Monodon monoceros, the male of which has a long, spirally twisted tusk extending forward from the upper jaw.
- nashgab — chatter; insolent talk
- nasmyth — James. 1808–90, British engineer; inventor of the steam hammer (1839)
- natasha — a female given name, Russian form of Natalie.
- natchez — a port in SW Mississippi, on the Mississippi River.
- nathans — a prophet during the reigns of David and Solomon. II Sam. 12; I Kings 1:34.