6-letter words containing a, s, h, o
- pharos — a small peninsula in N Egypt, near Alexandria: site of ancient lighthouse built by Ptolemy.
- phasor — a vector that represents a sinusoidally varying quantity, as a current or voltage, by means of a line rotating about a point in a plane, the magnitude of the quantity being proportional to the length of the line and the phase of the quantity being equal to the angle between the line and a reference line.
- pholas — a type of bivalve mollusc that is a member of the genus Pholas and family Pholadidae
- poisha — an aluminum coin and monetary unit of Bangladesh, the 100th part of a taka.
- potash — potassium carbonate, especially the crude impure form obtained from wood ashes.
- sancho — an African stringed instrument
- sappho — c620–c565 b.c, Greek poet, born in Lesbos.
- seahog — a porpoise
- shacko — a military cap in the form of a cylinder or truncated cone, with a visor and a plume or pompon.
- shadow — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- shalom — Hebrew word for peace
- shango — a W African religious cult surviving in some parts of the Caribbean
- sharon — Ariel, 1928–2014, Israeli military and political leader; prime minister 2001–06.
- shoaly — full of shoals or shallows.
- shofar — a ram's horn blown as a wind instrument, sounded in Biblical times chiefly to communicate signals in battle and announce certain religious occasions and in modern times chiefly at synagogue services on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
- shoran — a system for aircraft navigation in which two signals sent from an aircraft are received and answered by two fixed transponders, the round-trip times of the signals enabling the navigator to determine the aircraft's position.
- sophar — Zophar.
- sophia — a female given name.
- taisho — the designation of the period of the reign of Emperor Yoshihito, 1912–26.
- thasos — a Greek island in the N Aegean. About 170 sq. mi. (440 sq. km).
- thomas — an apostle who demanded proof of Christ's Resurrection. John 20:24–29.
- wahoos — Plural form of wahoo.
- washoe — b. 1965, female chimpanzee, first ape trained to communicate with humans by means of a sign language.
- whatso — Whatever.
- yahoos — (in Swift's Gulliver's Travels) one of a race of brutes, having the form and all the vices of humans, who are subject to the Houyhnhnms.