8-letter words containing a, h, s
- bashless — not ashamed; unabashed
- bashment — (slang, countable, especially Jamaican) A party or rave.
- basophil — (of cells or cell contents) easily stained by basic dyes
- bathless — without a bath
- bathmats — Plural form of bathmat.
- bathmism — a hypothetical growth-force, once thought to animate living beings
- bathorse — a horse which carries a military officer's baggage; a military packhorse
- bathtubs — Plural form of bathtub.
- bathurst — a town in SE Australia, in E New South Wales: scene of a gold rush in 1851. Pop: 27 036 (2001)
- beakfish — Any of certain fishes of the family Oplegnathidae.
- beshadow — to darken with shadow
- bethesda — a pool in Jerusalem reputed to have healing powers, where a paralysed man was healed by Jesus (John 5:2)
- bimbashi — a Turkish military official
- biphasic — having two phases
- blackish — Something that is blackish is very dark in colour.
- blandish — to seek to persuade or influence by mild flattery; coax
- bleakish — quite pale
- boarfish — any of various spiny-finned marine teleost fishes of the genera Capros, Antigonia, etc, related to the dories, having a deep compressed body, a long snout, and large eyes
- bone ash — the residue obtained when bones are burned in air, consisting mainly of calcium phosphate. It is used as a fertilizer and in the manufacture of bone china
- brackish — Brackish water is slightly salty and unpleasant.
- bradshaw — a British railway timetable, published annually from 1839 to 1961
- brahmins — Hinduism. Brahman1 (def 1).
- brainish — impulsive or impetuous
- branches — a division or subdivision of the stem or axis of a tree, shrub, or other plant.
- branchus — a son of Apollo, given the power of augury by his father.
- brandish — If you brandish something, especially a weapon, you hold it in a threatening way.
- brassish — like brass; brassy
- breathes — to take air, oxygen, etc., into the lungs and expel it; inhale and exhale; respire.
- broadish — fairly broad
- bush tea — a leguminous shrub of the genus Cyclopia, of southern Africa
- bushbaby — any agile nocturnal arboreal prosimian primate of the genera Galago and Euoticus, occurring in Africa south of the Sahara: family Lorisidae (lorises). They have large eyes and ears and a long tail
- bushgoat — a S African antelope
- bushland — uncultivated land (esp in Australia) that is covered with trees, shrubs, or other natural vegetation
- bushmeat — meat taken from any animal native to African forests, including species that may be endangered or not usually eaten outside Africa
- bushwalk — to hike through bushland
- buzkashi — a game played in Afghanistan, in which opposing teams of horsemen strive for possession of the headless carcass of a goat
- caboshed — (of an animal, as a deer) shown facing forward without a neck: a stag's head caboshed.
- caiaphas — the high priest at the beginning of John the Baptist's preaching and during the trial of Jesus (Luke 3:2; Matthew 26)
- calabash — a tropical American evergreen tree, Crescentia cujete, that produces large round gourds: family Bignoniaceae
- calathus — a vase-shaped basket represented in ancient Greek art, used as a symbol of fruitfulness
- caliches — Plural form of caliche.
- calipash — the greenish glutinous edible part of the turtle found next to the upper shell, considered a delicacy
- camelish — similar to a camel
- campshed — to line (the bank of a river) with campshot.
- campshot — a facing of planks and piles placed along the bank of a river to prevent erosion.
- camshaft — A camshaft is a rod in an engine and works to change circular motion into motion up and down or from side to side.
- capsheaf — The top sheaf of a stook of wheat etc.
- captchas — Plural form of captcha.
- capuches — Plural form of capuche.
- car wash — a place or structure having special equipment for washing automobiles.