8-letter words containing a, s, h, o
- pashadom — the office or territory of a pasha
- pathoses — a diseased condition.
- pathosis — a diseased condition.
- pawnshop — the shop of a pawnbroker, especially one where unredeemed items are displayed and sold.
- phaistos — an ancient city in S central Crete: site of Minoan palace; Linear A tablets and important pottery objects unearthed here.
- pharaohs — a title of an ancient Egyptian king.
- phaseout — an act or instance of phasing out; planned discontinuation or expiration.
- postheat — to heat (a metal piece, as a weld) after working, so as to relieve stresses.
- prophase — Cell Biology. the first stage of mitosis or meiosis in eukaryotic cell division, during which the nuclear envelope breaks down and strands of chromatin form into chromosomes.
- rathouse — a psychiatric hospital or asylum
- rhamnose — deoxymannose; a deoxy hexose sugar, C 6 H 1 2 O 5 , that is an important component of the polysaccharides of plant cell walls.
- rhapsode — in ancient Greece, a person who recited rhapsodies, esp. one who recited epic poems as a profession
- rhapsody — Music. an instrumental composition irregular in form and suggestive of improvisation.
- rheobase — the minimum electric current required to excite a given nerve or muscle.
- rheostat — an adjustable resistor so constructed that its resistance may be changed without opening the circuit in which it is connected, thereby controlling the current in the circuit.
- rhodesia — (as Southern Rhodesia, ) a former British colony in S Africa: declared independence 1965; name changed to Zimbabwe, 1979.
- roadshow — travelling entertainment
- romansch — a group of Rhaetian dialects spoken in the Swiss canton of Graubünden; an official language of Switzerland since 1938
- roswitha — Hrotsvitha.
- rothesay — a town in the Strathclyde region, on Bute island, in SW Scotland: resort; ruins of 11th-century castle.
- sakharov — Andrei (Dmitrievich) [ahn-drey di-mee-tree-uh-vich;; Russian uhn-dryey dmyee-tryi-yi-vyich] /ˈɑn dreɪ dɪˈmi tri ə vɪtʃ;; Russian ʌnˈdryeɪ ˈdmyi tryɪ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1921–1989, Russian nuclear physicist and human-rights advocate: Nobel Peace Prize 1975.
- sandshoe — a light tennis shoe; sneaker.
- sargodha — a city in NE Pakistan.
- sawhorse — a movable frame or trestle for supporting wood being sawed.
- sawtooth — one of the cutting teeth of a saw.
- scaphoid — boat-shaped; navicular.
- schawlow — Arthur Leonard, 1921–99, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1981.
- seahorse — small horse-like fish
- seahound — a dogfish
- seashore — land along the sea or ocean.
- sequoyah — 1770?–1843, Cherokee Indian scholar: inventor of a syllabary for writing Cherokee.
- shabuoth — a festival, celebrated on the sixth and seventh days of Sivan by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside Israel but only on the sixth day by Reform Jews and Jews in Israel, that commemorates God's giving of the Ten Commandments to Moses.
- shadbolt — Maurice. 1932–2004, New Zealand novelist
- shaddock — pomelo.
- shadowed — of or relating to a shadow cabinet.
- shadower — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- shagroon — a nineteenth-century Australian settler in Canterbury
- shakeout — an elimination or winnowing out of some competing businesses, products, etc., as a result of intense competition in a market of declining sales or rising standards of quality.
- shalloon — a light, twilled woolen fabric used chiefly for linings.
- shallows — The shallows are the shallow part of an area of water.
- shame on — shame should be felt by; this is shameful of
- shamokin — a borough in E Pennsylvania.
- shamrock — any of several trifoliate plants, as the wood sorrel, Oxalis acetosella, or a small, pink-flowered clover, Trifolium repens minus, but especially Trifolium procumbens, a small, yellow-flowered clover: the national emblem of Ireland.
- shandong — a maritime province in E China. 59,189 sq. mi. (153,299 sq. km). Capital: Jinan.
- shaoxing — a city in NE Zhejiang province, in E China.
- shaoyang — a city in central Hunan province, in E China.
- shavuoth — a festival, celebrated on the sixth and seventh days of Sivan by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside Israel but only on the sixth day by Reform Jews and Jews in Israel, that commemorates God's giving of the Ten Commandments to Moses.
- she-goat — a female goat
- shedload — a very large amount or number
- sheraton — Thomas, 1751–1806, English cabinetmaker and furniture designer.