8-letter words containing a, n, h, y
- hogmanay — the eve of New Year's Day.
- holy man — priest, spiritual leader
- honorary — given for honor only, without the usual requirements, duties, privileges, emoluments, etc.: The university presented the new governor with an honorary degree.
- huancayo — a city in central Peru, on the Mantaro River.
- humanely — characterized by tenderness, compassion, and sympathy for people and animals, especially for the suffering or distressed: humane treatment of prisoners.
- humanity — all human beings collectively; the human race; humankind.
- huna bay — an inlet of the Greenland Sea on the NW coast of Iceland.
- huntaway — a sheep dog.
- huxleyan — of, relating to, or characteristic or suggestive of Aldous Huxley or his writings.
- huysmans — Joris Karl [zhoh-rees kahrl] /ʒoʊˈris kɑrl/ (Show IPA), (Charles Marie Georges Huysmans) 1848–1907, French novelist.
- hyacinth — a female given name.
- hyalogen — any of several insoluble substances found in many animal structures such as cartilage which yield sugars on hydrolysis structures
- hydranth — the terminal part of a hydroid polyp that bears the mouth and tentacles and contains the stomach region.
- hydrants — Plural form of hydrant.
- hymeneal — of or relating to marriage.
- hymenean — A hymn, song or poem in honour of a wedding; a hymeneal.
- hymenial — relating to the layer of certain fungi which bears spores, composed of asci or basidia
- hymnally — In a hymnal way.
- hyoidean — Also, hyoidal, hyoidean. noting or pertaining to a U -shaped bone at the root of the tongue in humans, or a corresponding bone or collection of bones in animals.
- hypogean — Existing or growing underground.
- hyponoia — a slow mental function or imagination
- hypopnea — abnormally shallow and slow breathing.
- hyrcania — an ancient province of the Persian empire, SE of the Caspian Sea.
- john hay — John Milton, 1838–1905, U.S. statesman and author.
- kamyshin — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Volgograd, on the Volga River.
- keychain — A chain or ring to which a key may be attached.
- luanshya — a town in central Zambia.
- maconchy — Dame Elizabeth, married name Elizabeth LeFanu. 1907–94, British composer of Irish parentage; noted esp for her chamber music, which includes 13 string quartets and Romanza (1980) for viola and ensemble
- mahayana — the later of the two great schools of Buddhism, chiefly in China, Tibet, and Japan, characterized by eclecticism and a general belief in a common search for salvation, sometimes thought to be attainable through faith alone.
- mahogany — any of several tropical American trees of the genus Swietenia, especially S. mahagoni and S. macrophylla, yielding hard, reddish-brown wood used for making furniture.
- minarchy — (countable) Government with the least necessary power over its citizens.
- monarchy — a state or nation in which the supreme power is actually or nominally lodged in a monarch. Compare absolute monarchy, limited monarchy.
- nannyish — Like a nanny; tending to coddle.
- naphthyl — containing the naphthyl group.
- naughtly — (obsolete) naughtily; wrongly.
- naumachy — naumachia.
- navarchy — experience of or skill in nautical matters
- nomarchy — one of the provinces into which modern Greece is divided.
- nonhairy — Not hairy.
- nonhappy — (philosophy) Not happy.
- nonhardy — characterized by fragility or incapable of surviving under difficult conditions
- nymphaea — a room or area having a fountain, statues, flowers, etc.
- nymphean — Of or pertaining to a nymph or nymphs.
- pansophy — universal wisdom or knowledge.
- payphone — a public telephone requiring that the caller deposit coins or use a credit card to pay for a call.
- phantasy — fantasy.
- phrygana — another name for garigue, used esp in Greece
- phrygian — of or relating to Phrygia, its people, or their language.
- sandyish — somewhat sandy
- say when — to state when an action is to be stopped or begun, as when someone is pouring a drink