8-letter words containing a, h, n
- ranchman — a rancher.
- randolph — A(sa) Philip, 1889–1979, U.S. labor leader: president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1925–68.
- raphania — a type of ergotism possibly resulting from ingestion of the poison from radish seeds
- rashness — acting or tending to act too hastily or without due consideration.
- rathbone — Basil, 1892–1967, English actor, born in South Africa.
- rathenau — Walther [vahl-tuh r] /ˈvɑl tər/ (Show IPA), 1867–1922, German industrialist, writer, and statesman.
- rebranch — (of a branch, tree, evolutionary tree, etc) to branch again
- redshank — an Old World sandpiper, Tringa totanus, having red legs and feet.
- rehandle — to handle again
- reharden — to make or become hard again
- relaunch — an act or instance of launching something again.
- revanche — the policy of a state intent on regaining areas of its original territory that have been lost to other states as a result of war, a treaty signed under duress, etc.
- rhaetian — of or relating to Rhaetia.
- rhamnose — deoxymannose; a deoxy hexose sugar, C 6 H 1 2 O 5 , that is an important component of the polysaccharides of plant cell walls.
- rheingau — a small wine-growing region in Hesse, in central Germany, on the Rhine.
- rhiannon — the wife of Pwyll who, accused of having eaten her son, was forced as a penance to carry people on her back until vindicated by her son's return.
- rhodanic — of or relating to thiocyanic acid
- richland — a city in SE Washington, on the Columbia River: residential and administrative quarters for the Hanford Works. Compare Hanford (def 2).
- rinehart — Mary Roberts, 1876–1958, U.S. novelist and playwright.
- 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.
- rinkhals — ringhals.
- roaching — Nautical. the upward curve at the foot of a square sail. (loosely) a convexity given to any of the edges of a sail; round.
- romansch — a group of Rhaetian dialects spoken in the Swiss canton of Graubünden; an official language of Switzerland since 1938
- rondache — a small, round shield
- ruthenia — a former province in E Czechoslovakia.
- saganash — (among the Algonquian Indians) a European
- sage hen — the sage grouse, especially the female.
- sahaptin — a member of an American Indian people of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.
- saharian — a desert in N Africa, extending from the Atlantic to the Nile valley. About 3,500,000 sq. mi. (9,065,000 sq. km).
- saintish — resembling a saint
- sakhalin — an island of the Russian Federation in the Sea of Okhotsk, N of Japan: formerly (1905-45) divided between the Soviet Union and Japan. 29,100 sq. mi. (75,369 sq. km).
- salishan — a family of American Indian languages including Coeur d'Alêne, Kalispel, and other languages of British Columbia and the northwestern U.S.
- samantha — a female given name: from an Aramaic word meaning “listener.”.
- sandfish — either of two scaleless fishes of the family Trichodontidae, of the North Pacific, that live in sand or mud.
- sandheap — a heap of sand
- sandhill — a hill of sand, esp a dune on the seashore
- sandshoe — a light tennis shoe; sneaker.
- sandwich — a town in E Kent, in SE England: one of the Cinque Ports.
- sandyish — somewhat sandy
- sarpanch — the head of a panchayat
- savannah — a plain characterized by coarse grasses and scattered tree growth, especially on the margins of the tropics where the rainfall is seasonal, as in eastern Africa.
- say when — to state when an action is to be stopped or begun, as when someone is pouring a drink
- scathing — bitterly severe, as a remark: a scathing review of the play.
- schantze — a pile of stones heaped to shelter soldiers from gunfire
- schnabel — Artur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1882–1951, Austrian pianist.
- schnapps — (in Europe) any strong, dry spirit, as slivovitz, aquavit, or kirsch.
- schumann — Clara (Clara Wieck) 1819–96, German pianist and composer (wife of Robert Schumann).
- schwaben — German name of Swabia.
- scythian — pertaining to Scythia, its people, or their language.
- 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