7-letter words containing a, h, n
- naughty — improper, tasteless, indecorous, or indecent: a naughty word.
- navarch — (historical, Ancient Greece) The commander of a fleet.
- navarho — a navigation system providing information on bearing and distance
- nechako — a river in central British Columbia, Canada, flowing NE and E to the Fraser river. About 150 miles (240 km) long.
- needham — a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
- nethack — (games) /net'hak/ (Unix) A dungeon game similar to rogue but more elaborate, distributed in C source over Usenet and very popular at Unix sites and on PC-class machines (nethack is probably the most widely distributed of the freeware dungeon games). The earliest versions, written by Jay Fenlason and later considerably enhanced by Andries Brouwer, were simply called "hack". The name changed when maintenance was taken over by a group of hackers originally organised by Mike Stephenson. Version: NetHack 3.2 (Apr 1996?). E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- nethead — (slang) An obsessive Internet user.
- nihonga — the traditional Japanese style of painting, using traditional materials and techniques
- nkrumah — Kwame [kwah-mee] /ˈkwɑ mi/ (Show IPA), 1909–72, president of Ghana 1960–66.
- nomarch — the governor of a nome or a nomarchy.
- noncash — of or constituting financial sources other than cash: a noncash expense.
- nothura — Any member of the genus Nothura of birds in the tinamou family.
- np-hard — (complexity) A set or property of computational search problems. A problem is NP-hard if solving it in polynomial time would make it possible to solve all problems in class NP in polynomial time. Some NP-hard problems are also in NP (these are called "NP-complete"), some are not. If you could reduce an NP problem to an NP-hard problem and then solve it in polynomial time, you could solve all NP problems. See also computational complexity.
- nullahs — Plural form of nullah.
- nuraghe — any of the large, tower-shaped, prehistoric stone structures found in Sardinia and dating from the second millennium b.c. to the Roman conquest.
- nylghai — nilgai.
- nylghau — nilgai.
- nymphae — Anatomy. one of the inner labia of the vulva.
- nymphal — Of or pertaining to a nymph or nymphs.
- offhand — cavalierly, curtly, or brusquely: to reply offhand.
- on hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- on heat — (of some female mammals) sexually receptive
- on oath — under the obligation of an oath
- onitsha — a city in SW Nigeria, on the Niger River.
- onychia — inflammation of the matrix of the nail.
- orphans — Plural form of orphan.
- orphean — Greek Legend. a poet and musician, a son of Calliope, who followed his dead wife, Eurydice, to the underworld. By charming Hades, he obtained permission to lead her away, provided he did not look back at her until they returned to earth. But at the last moment he looked, and she was lost to him forever.
- orthian — having a high pitch
- pa chin — (Li Fei-kan) Ba Jin.
- pahouin — Fang (def 1).
- panache — a grand or flamboyant manner; verve; style; flair: The actor who would play Cyrano must have panache.
- panchax — any of a variety of colorful tropical Old World fishes of the genus Aplocheilus and related genera: popular in home aquariums.
- panfish — any small, freshwater nongame food fish, as a perch or sunfish, usually eaten pan-fried.
- panhead — a rivet or screw head having the form of a truncated cone.
- panhoss — pannhas.
- pannhas — scrapple.
- panocha — Also, penuche. a coarse grade of sugar made in Mexico.
- panoche — Also, penuche. a coarse grade of sugar made in Mexico.
- panther — the cougar or puma, Felis concolor.
- paoshan — a town in W Yunnan province, in S China, on the Burma Road.
- paphian — of or relating to Paphos, an ancient city of Cyprus sacred to Aphrodite.
- pashtun — of or relating to the Pashto-speaking people of Afghanistan and NW Pakistan
- patchen — Kenneth, 1911–72, U.S. poet and novelist.
- paunchy — having a large and protruding belly; potbellied: a paunchy middle-aged man.
- phaenna — one of the Graces worshiped at Sparta.
- phaeton — any of various light, four-wheeled carriages, with or without a top, having one or two seats facing forward, used in the 19th century.
- phalanx — (in ancient Greece) a group of heavily armed infantry formed in ranks and files close and deep, with shields joined and long spears overlapping.
- phallin — an element that is found in the death cap toadstool that was originally suspected as being the poisonous essence of the fungus
- phantom — an apparition or specter.
- pharynx — the tube or cavity, with its surrounding membrane and muscles, that connects the mouth and nasal passages with the esophagus.