8-letter words containing a, i, h
- beathing — Present participle of beath.
- bedchair — an adjustable chair to support an invalid sitting up in bed
- behavior — People's or animals' behavior is the way that they behave. You can refer to a typical and repeated way of behaving as a behavior.
- benghazi — a port in N Libya, on the Gulf of Sidra: centre of Italian colonization (1911–42); scene of much fighting in World War II. Pop: 1 080 500 (2002 est)
- biathlon — a contest in which skiers with rifles shoot at four targets along a 20-kilometre (12.5-mile) cross-country course
- bien hoa — a town in S Vietnam: a former capital of Cambodia. Pop: 520 000 (2005 est)
- big hair — a hairstyle with volume created by hair products or styling techniques such as backcombing, etc
- big head — If you describe someone as a big head, you disapprove of them because they think they are very clever and know everything.
- billhead — a printed form for making out bills
- bimbashi — a Turkish military official
- biograph — a biographical summary
- biphasic — having two phases
- birdbath — a small basin or trough for birds to bathe in, usually in a garden
- birthday — Your birthday is the anniversary of the date on which you were born.
- bithynia — an ancient country on the Black Sea in NW Asia Minor
- 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
- boehmian — of or relating to Boehmenism.
- boethian — Anicius Manlius Severinus [uh-nish-ee-uh s man-lee-uh s sev-uh-rahy-nuh s] /əˈnɪʃ i əs ˈmæn li əs ˌsɛv əˈraɪ nəs/ (Show IPA), a.d. 475?–525? Roman philosopher and statesman.
- bohemian — Bohemian means belonging or relating to Bohemia or its people.
- borachio — a wine carrier made from animal skin, used in Spain
- brachial — of or relating to the arm or to an armlike part or structure
- brachio- — indicating a brachium
- brachium — the arm, esp the upper part
- brackish — Brackish water is slightly salty and unpleasant.
- braeheid — the summit of a hill or slope
- brahmani — a woman of the Brahman caste
- brahmins — Hinduism. Brahman1 (def 1).
- brainish — impulsive or impetuous
- branchia — a gill in aquatic animals
- brandish — If you brandish something, especially a weapon, you hold it in a threatening way.
- brassish — like brass; brassy
- broadish — fairly broad
- bronchia — the ramifications or branches of the bronchi.
- bukharin — Nikolai Ivanovich (nikaˈlaj iˈvanəvitʃ). 1888–1938, Soviet Bolshevik leader: executed in one of Stalin's purges
- buzkashi — a game played in Afghanistan, in which opposing teams of horsemen strive for possession of the headless carcass of a goat
- cachexia — a generally weakened condition of body or mind resulting from any debilitating chronic disease
- cachexic — cachetic
- cadherin — (protein) Any of a class of transmembrane proteins important in maintaining tissue structure.
- cahuilla — a member of a North American Indian people of southern California.
- caiaphas — the high priest at the beginning of John the Baptist's preaching and during the trial of Jesus (Luke 3:2; Matthew 26)
- caliches — Plural form of caliche.
- calipash — the greenish glutinous edible part of the turtle found next to the upper shell, considered a delicacy
- caliphal — relating to a caliph
- camelish — similar to a camel
- camphine — rectified oil of turpentine
- camphire — henna
- capuchin — any agile intelligent New World monkey of the genus Cebus, inhabiting forests in South America, typically having a cowl of thick hair on the top of the head