7-letter words containing a, h, o
- apophis — a demon serpent of darkness whom Ra, as sun god, destroys every morning at dawn.
- apothem — the perpendicular line or distance from the centre of a regular polygon to any of its sides
- arapaho — a member of a North American Indian people of the Plains, now living chiefly in Oklahoma and Wyoming
- arccoth — (mathematics) The area hyberbolic cotangent function, i.e., the inverse hyperbolic cotangent function.
- archeo- — archaeo-
- archfoe — Archenemy.
- archons — Plural form of archon Chief magistrates of ancient Athens.
- arghool — an Arabian wind instrument of the oboe family, consisting of two pipes, one of which is a drone.
- armhole — The armholes of something such as a shirt or dress are the openings through which you put your arms, or the places where the sleeves are attached.
- arthro- — indicating a joint
- ashdown — Paddy, Baron. real name Jeremy John Durham Ashdown. born 1941, British politician; leader of the Liberal Democrats (formerly the Social and Liberal Democrats) (1988–99); UN high representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina (2002–06)
- ashford — a market town in SE England, in central Kent. Pop: 58 936 (2001)
- ashwood — The wood of the ash tree.
- asshole — If one person calls another person an asshole, they think that person is extremely stupid or has behaved in a stupid way.
- asthore — my treasure: a term of endearment
- at home — If you feel at home, you feel comfortable in the place or situation that you are in.
- at-home — Also, at home. a reception of visitors at certain hours at one's home.
- athanor — an alchemist's oven or furnace that continuously supplies its own fuel and thereby sustains an unchanging temperature
- atheous — having no concern or regard for the matters surrounding the actuality of a God
- athodyd — ramjet (engine)
- atishoo — Atishoo is used, especially in writing, to represent the sound that you make when you sneeze.
- atrophy — If a muscle or other part of the body atrophies, it decreases in size or strength, often as a result of an illness.
- aurochs — a recently extinct member of the cattle tribe, Bos primigenius, that inhabited forests in N Africa, Europe, and SW Asia. It had long horns and is thought to be one of the ancestors of modern cattle
- authors — a person who writes a novel, poem, essay, etc.; the composer of a literary work, as distinguished from a compiler, translator, editor, or copyist.
- authour — Obsolete spelling of author.
- ayodhya — an ancient town in N India, in Uttar Pradesh state: as the birthplace of Rama it is sacred to Hindus; also a Buddhist centre
- backhoe — A backhoe is a large vehicle which is used for moving large amounts of earth.
- bagehot — Walter. 1826–77, English economist and journalist: editor of The Economist; author of The English Constitution (1867), Physics and Politics (1872), and Lombard Street (1873)
- balochi — Baluchi.
- baoshan — a town in W Yunnan province, in S China, on the Burma Road.
- bar-hop — If a person bar-hops, they go from one bar to another having drinks in each one.
- barthou — (Jean) Louis [zhahn lwee] /ʒɑ̃ lwi/ (Show IPA), 1862–1934, French statesman and author.
- basoche — a guild of medieval Parisian lawyers, granted the privilege of performing religious plays and known for abusing this privilege by performing comic plays instead
- basotho — a member of the subgroup of the Sotho people who chiefly inhabit Lesotho
- bhoodan — (in India) a socioagricultural movement, started by Vinoba Bhave in 1951, in which village landowners are persuaded to give land to the landless.
- boarish — coarse, cruel, or sensual
- bodhran — shallow one-sided drum popular in Irish and Scottish folk music
- bohemia — a former kingdom of central Europe, surrounded by mountains: independent from the 9th to the 13th century; belonged to the Hapsburgs from 1526 until 1918
- bokhara — Bukhara.
- boothia — Gulf ofinlet of the Arctic Ocean between Boothia Peninsula & Baffin Island
- boswash — the heavily populated area extending from Boston to Washington and including New York City, Philadelphia, and Baltimore.
- bothnia — Gulf ofarm of the Baltic Sea, between Finland & Sweden
- bourkha — a loose garment covering the entire body and having a veiled opening for the eyes, worn by Muslim women.
- bowhead — a large-mouthed arctic whale, Balaena mysticetus, that has become rare through overfishing but is now a protected species
- boxhaul — to bring (a square-rigger) onto a new tack by backwinding the foresails and steering hard round
- boxhead — a heading, usually atthe top of a page, newspaper column, or column of figures, enclosed in a box formed by rules.
- brochan — a type of thin porridge
- cachous — Plural form of cachou.
- cahokia — a city in SW Illinois.
- cahoots — partnership; league (esp in the phrases go in cahoots with, go cahoot)