4-letter words containing a, h
- chat — When people chat, they talk to each other in an informal and friendly way.
- chav — If you call someone a chav, you think that the way they look shows a lack of taste and education, although they may wear expensive clothes.
- chaw — to chew (tobacco), esp without swallowing it
- chay — a plant of the madder family native to India
- chia — a plant of the genus Salvia, indigenous to Mexico, with purple or blue flowers and edible seeds
- dahl — Roald (ˈrəʊəld). 1916–90, British writer with Norwegian parents, noted for his short stories and such children's books as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964)
- dahn — Eye dialect of down.
- dahs — an echoic word, the referent of which is a tone interval approximately three times the length of the dot, used to designate the dash of Morse code, International Morse code, etc.
- dash — If you dash somewhere, you run or go there quickly and suddenly.
- dhak — a tropical Asian leguminous tree, Butea frondosa, that has bright red flowers and yields a red resin, used as an astringent
- dhal — a tropical African and Asian leguminous shrub, Cajanus cajan, cultivated in tropical regions for its nutritious pealike seeds
- dhea — dehydroisoandrosterone: the major androgen precursor in females, secreted by the adrenal cortex
- doha — an independent emirate on the Persian Gulf; under British protection until 1971. 8500 sq. mi. (22,000 sq. km). Capital: Doha.
- each — every one of two or more considered individually or one by one: each stone in a building; a hallway with a door at each end.
- eath — (Now chiefly dialectal) Easily.
- epha — (biblical) alternative spelling of ephah.
- faha — Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
- fahd — (Fahd ibn Abdul-Aziz al Saud) 1922–2005, king of Saudi Arabia1982–2005 (son of ibn-Saud and brother of Khalid).
- fahs — Plural form of fah.
- fash — (Scotland, Geordie, Northern England) To worry; to bother, annoy.
- fhsa — (formerly, in Britain) Family Health Services Authority
- fmha — Farmers Home Administration
- gash — a long, deep wound or cut; slash.
- gath — one of the five cities of the Philistines, from which Goliath came (I Samuel 17:4) and near which Saul fell in battle (II Samuel 1:20)
- ghat — a wide set of steps descending to a river, especially a river used for bathing.
- haaf — deep-sea fishing grounds off the Shetland and Orkney Islands.
- haag — Den [den] /dɛn/ (Show IPA) a Dutch name of The Hague.
- haar — a thick, wet fog along the seacoast.
- haas — Jacob, 1872–1937, English Zionist leader, in U.S. after 1902.
- hab. — Habakkuk
- haba — Alois [ah-lois] /ˈɑ lɔɪs/ (Show IPA), 1893–1972, Czech composer.
- habs — Plural form of hab.
- habu — a large venomous snake, Trimeresurus flavoviridis, of Okinawa and other Ryukyu Islands: family Crotalidae (pit vipers)
- hack — to place (something) on a hack, as for drying or feeding.
- hade — Geology. the angle between a fault plane and the vertical, measured perpendicular to the strike of the fault; complement of the dip.
- hadj — the pilgrimage to Mecca, which every adult Muslim is supposed to make at least once in his or her lifetime: the fifth of the Pillars of Islam.
- haed — have.
- haem — The component of haemoglobin responsible for binding oxygen, consists of an iron ion that binds oxygen and a porphyrin ring that binds the globin molecules; one molecule binds one molecule of oxygen.
- haet — a little bit; a whit.
- hafe — Eye dialect of have.
- haff — a pool or lake of water that is fresh, not very deep, and is situated at the mouth of a river
- haft — a handle, especially of a knife, sword, or dagger.
- hags — Plural form of hag.
- haha — sunk fence.
- hahn — Otto, 1879–1968, German chemist: Nobel Prize 1944.
- haid — of or relating to a member of a seafaring group of North American Indian peoples inhabiting the coast of British Columbia and SW Alaska
- haig — Douglas, 1st Earl, 1861–1928, British field marshal: commander in chief of the British forces in France 1915–18.
- haik — an oblong cloth used as an outer garment by the Arabs.
- hail — to pour down on as or like hail: The plane hailed leaflets on the city.
- hain — to save, leave off, or forbear