7-letter words containing a, h, o
- roached — Nautical. the upward curve at the foot of a square sail. (loosely) a convexity given to any of the edges of a sail; round.
- roadhog — If you describe someone as a roadhog, you mean that they drive too fast or in a way which is dangerous to other people.
- romansh — a group of three Rhaeto-Romanic dialects spoken in E Switzerland. Compare Ladin (def 2).
- rouhani — Hassan (hæˈsɑːn). born 1948, Iranian politician; president of Iran from 2013
- sabaoth — armies; hosts. Rom. 9:29; James 5:4.
- salchow — a jump in which the skater leaps from the back inside edge of one skate, making one full rotation of the body in the air, and lands on the back outside edge of the other skate.
- sandhog — a laborer who digs or works in sand.
- saxhorn — any of a family of brass instruments close to the cornets and tubas.
- scholar — a learned or erudite person, especially one who has profound knowledge of a particular subject.
- sea hog — a porpoise.
- seamoth — dragonfish (def 2).
- senhora — a Portuguese term of address equivalent to Mrs., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a married or older woman. Abbreviation: Sra.
- sephora — Zipporah.
- shabbos — Sabbath (def 1).
- shadoof — a device used in Egypt and other Eastern countries for raising water, especially for irrigation, consisting of a long suspended rod with a bucket at one end and a weight at the other.
- shadowy — resembling a shadow in faintness, slightness, etc.: shadowy outlines.
- shakudo — a Japanese alloy of copper and gold having a dark bluish-purple colour
- shallon — a North American evergreen shrub, Gaultheria Shallon, with pink or white flowers and edible berries
- shallop — any of various vessels formerly used for sailing or rowing in shallow waters, especially a two-masted, gaff-rigged vessel of the 17th and 18th centuries.
- shallot — a plant, Allium cepa aggregatum (or A. ascalonicum), related to the onion, having a divided bulb used for flavoring in cookery.
- shallow — of little depth; not deep: shallow water.
- shampoo — to wash (the head or hair), especially with a cleaning preparation that does not leave a soap film.
- shannon — Claude Elwood [el-woo d] /ˈɛlˌwʊd/ (Show IPA), 1916–2001, U.S. applied mathematician: early developer of information theory.
- shantou — a seaport in E Guangdong province, in SE China.
- shapiro — Karl (Jay) 1913–2000, U.S. poet and editor.
- shavuot — a festival, celebrated on the sixth and seventh days of Sivan by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside Israel but only on the sixth day by Reform Jews and Jews in Israel, that commemorates God's giving of the Ten Commandments to Moses.
- she-oak — any of various Australian trees of the genus Casuarina
- shoaler — a place where a sea, river, or other body of water is shallow.
- shoepac — a heavy, laced, waterproof boot.
- shophar — shofar.
- shopman — a man who is employed to work in a shop
- shortia — an evergreen herb native to eastern North America and temperate Asia, with white, pink, or blue flowers
- showman — a person who presents or produces a show, especially of a theatrical nature.
- so that — in the way or manner indicated, described, or implied: Do it so.
- so what — the true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics: a lecture on the whats and hows of crop rotation.
- songhai — a member of a group of peoples living along the Niger River in the area of Timbuktu and Gao in Mali and in adjacent areas of Niger and Burkina Faso.
- songhua — a river in NE China, flowing NW and NE through E and central Manchuria into the Amur River on the boundary of Siberia. 800 miles (1287 km) long.
- statohm — the electrostatic unit of resistance, equivalent to 8.9876 × 10 11 ohms and equal to the resistance in a conductor in which one statvolt of potential difference produces a current of one statampere.
- stomach — Anatomy, Zoology. a saclike enlargement of the alimentary canal, as in humans and certain animals, forming an organ for storing, diluting, and digesting food. such an organ or an analogous portion of the alimentary canal when divided into two or more sections or parts. any one of these sections.
- suharto — 1921–2008, Indonesian army officer and political leader: president 1967–98.
- tachiol — silver fluoride.
- tachyon — a hypothetical particle that travels faster than the speed of light.
- taichou — a city in central Jiangsu province, in E China.
- taichow — a city in central Jiangsu province, in E China.
- taizhou — a city in central Jiangsu province, in E China.
- tallyho — Chiefly British. a mail coach or a four-in-hand pleasure coach.
- taphole — a hole in a blast furnace, steelmaking furnace, etc., through which molten metal or slag is tapped off.
- teashop — a tearoom.
- teraohm — a unit of electrical resistance equal to one million million ohms
- thjorsa — a river in central Iceland, flowing SW to the Atlantic Ocean. About 143 miles (230 km) long.