8-letter words containing a, s, h, i, e
- misheard — to hear incorrectly or imperfectly: to mishear a remark.
- mishears — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mishear.
- misshape — to shape badly or wrongly; deform.
- misteach — to teach wrongly or badly.
- obeahism — the custom of or faith in the form of witchcraft known as obeah
- papisher — a Roman Catholic
- parishen — a parishioner
- pasiphae — Classical Mythology. the wife of Minos, mother of Ariadne, and mother of the Minotaur by the Cretan bull.
- pasithea — one of the Graces.
- pastiche — a literary, musical, or artistic piece consisting wholly or chiefly of motifs or techniques borrowed from one or more sources.
- peatship — the state of being a peat
- peshitta — the principal Syriac version of the Bible.
- pharisee — a member of a Jewish sect that flourished during the 1st century b.c. and 1st century a.d. and that differed from the Sadducees chiefly in its strict observance of religious ceremonies and practices, adherence to oral laws and traditions, and belief in an afterlife and the coming of a Messiah.
- phase in — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- phase-in — an act or instance of phasing in; gradual introduction or implementation.
- pheidias — Phidias
- pisshead — a drunkard
- pistache — the nut of a Eurasian tree, Pistacia vera, of the cashew family, containing an edible, greenish kernel.
- rachises — Plural form of rachis.
- ravisher — to fill with strong emotion, especially joy.
- rhodesia — (as Southern Rhodesia, ) a former British colony in S Africa: declared independence 1965; name changed to Zimbabwe, 1979.
- samphire — a European succulent plant, Crithmum maritimum, of the parsley family, having compound leaves and small, whitish flowers, growing in clefts of rock near the sea.
- sapphire — any gem variety of corundum other than the ruby, especially one of the blue varieties.
- schiedam — a city in SW Netherlands.
- sea fish — a fish that lives in salt water
- sea whip — a gorgonian coral that forms a flexible colony resembling shrubbery on the ocean floor.
- semiarch — a half arch.
- semihard — partly hard; not completely hard
- sephardi — a Jew of Spanish, Portuguese, or North African descent
- seraphic — of, like, or befitting a seraph.
- seraphim — a plural of seraph.
- seraphin — a silver coin which formed the principal currency of Goa in the 16th century
- shabbier — impaired by wear, use, etc.; worn: shabby clothes.
- shadiest — abounding in shade; shaded: shady paths.
- shagpile — (of a carpet or rug) having long, rough fibres
- shamisen — a Japanese plucked stringed instrument with a long neck, an unfretted fingerboard, and a rectangular soundbox
- shar pei — one of a Chinese breed of large muscular dogs having a distinctive wrinkly skin covered by a fawn to dark brown smooth coat, originally developed as a guard dog.
- shar-pei — one of a Chinese breed of large muscular dogs having a distinctive wrinkly skin covered by a fawn to dark brown smooth coat, originally developed as a guard dog.
- share in — receive part of
- shawties — a person of less than average stature (sometimes used as a disparaging and offensive term of address).
- sheading — any of the six subdivisions of the Isle of Man
- shealing — a pasture or grazing ground.
- shearing — Usually, shears. (sometimes used with a singular verb) scissors of large size (usually used with pair of). any of various other cutting implements or machines having two blades that resemble or suggest those of scissors.
- shechina — the radiance in which God's immanent presence in the midst of his people, esp in the Temple, is visibly manifested
- shechita — the Jewish method of killing animals for food
- shehitah — the slaughtering of animals for food by a duly certified person in the manner prescribed by Jewish law.
- shekinah — the presence of God on earth or a symbol or manifestation of His presence.
- sheridan — Philip Henry, 1831–88, Union general in the Civil War.
- sherwani — a long coat closed up to the neck, worn by men in India
- shigella — any of several rod-shaped aerobic bacteria of the genus Shigella, certain species of which are pathogenic for humans and other warm-blooded animals.