8-letter words containing a, h, o
- john hay — John Milton, 1838–1905, U.S. statesman and author.
- john law — Andrew Bonar [bon-er] /ˈbɒn ər/ (Show IPA), 1858–1923, English statesman, born in Canada: prime minister 1922–23.
- johnboat — a light, square-ended, flat-bottomed skiff, used in shallow water.
- johnniac — (computer) A mainframe computer based on a design by John von Neuman built at the Institute for Advanced Study, USA. The Johnniac went live in 1953 and was decommissioned in 1966. Its memory consisted of 80 special "Selectron" vacuum tubes, each of which held 256 bits of data.
- jolthead — (archaic) A dunce; a blockhead.
- jonathan — a son of Saul and friend of David. I Sam. 18–20.
- kalathos — a fruit basket having a conventionalized shape of a lily, often used in ancient art as a symbol of fertility.
- kazachoc — a traditional Cossack dance
- kazachok — a lively, Slavic folk dance for a solo male dancer, marked especially by the prisiadka.
- kephalos — Cephalus.
- khartoum — a region in N Africa, S of the Sahara and Libyan deserts, extending from the Atlantic to the Red Sea.
- khaskovo — a city in S Bulgaria.
- kiaochow — a former German-leased territory (1898–1914) on the Shandong peninsula, in E China, around Jiaozhou Bay. 200 sq. mi. (518 sq. km). Chief city, Tsingtao.
- knobhead — a stupid person
- knothead — (informal) A stupid or stubborn person.
- kohlrabi — a cultivated cabbage, Brassica oleracea gongylodes, whose stem above ground swells into an edible, bulblike formation.
- kolaches — Plural form of kolache.
- kolhapur — a city in S Maharashtra, in SW India.
- kombucha — Also called kombucha mushroom. a live culture of multiple species of yeast and bacteria, grown to make a mildly alcoholic fermented beverage.
- koolhaas — Rem. born 1944, Dutch architect and theorist, co-founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (1975); buildings include the Grand Palais and associated developments in Lille, France (1989–96); books include S, M, L, XL (1996)
- kootchar — any of several small, stingless Australian honeybees of the genus Trigona.
- kourbash — to whip with a kurbash.
- la hogue — La [la] /la/ (Show IPA), La Hogue.
- ladyhood — The quality or state of being a lady or ladylike.
- laghouat — a city in N Algeria.
- lahontan — Lake, an Ice Age lake in W Nevada and NE California, about 8600 sq. mi. (22,000 sq. km): remnants include Carson Sink, Pyramid Lake.
- lambchop — A chop or rib of lamb.
- lanthorn — lantern.
- laoighis — a county in Leinster, in the central Republic of Ireland. 623 sq. mi. (1615 sq. km). County seat: Port Laoighise.
- larouche — Lyndon H., Jr. born 1922, U.S. economist and politician.
- larrocha — Alicia de [ah-lee-thyah th e,, -syah] /ɑˈli θyɑ ðɛ,, -syɑ/ (Show IPA), 1923–2009, Spanish concert pianist.
- lash out — the flexible part of a whip; the section of cord or the like forming the extremity of a whip.
- latch on — a device for holding a door, gate, or the like, closed, consisting basically of a bar falling or sliding into a catch, groove, hole, etc.
- lathwork — work made of laths
- laughton — Charles, 1899–1962, U.S. actor, born in England.
- lichanos — (in Greek music) a note played using the forefinger
- lionhead — a small breed of rabbit with long fur around the face
- loathers — Plural form of loather.
- loathful — Scot. bashful; reluctant.
- loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
- loch tay — a lake in central Scotland, in Stirling council area. Length: 23 km (14 miles)
- lochearn — a city in N Maryland, near Baltimore.
- lockhart — John Gibson, 1794–1854, Scottish biographer and novelist.
- logomach — Someone who argues about the meaning of words.
- longhair — Sometimes Disparaging. an intellectual.
- longhand — writing of the ordinary kind, in which words are written out in full (distinguished from shorthand).
- longhead — a dolichocephalic person.
- lothario — (sometimes lowercase) a man who obsessively seduces and deceives women.
- lothians — a region in E Scotland. 700 sq. mi. (1813 sq. km).
- luchador — A person who competes in lucha libre wrestling.