7-letter words containing a, t, h, n
- in heat — female animal: ready to mate
- in that — (used to indicate inclusion within space, a place, or limits): walking in the park.
- inchant — Obsolete form of enchant.
- inearth — (transitive, chiefly poetic) To put into the earth; inter.
- inhabit — to live or dwell in (a place), as people or animals: Small animals inhabited the woods.
- inhaust — to drink or suck in; inhale
- inkatha — a South African Zulu organization founded by Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi in 1975 as a paramilitary group seeking nonracial democracy; won four seats in South Africa's first nonracial elections in 1994
- inthral — enthrall.
- ithacan — one of the Ionian Islands, off the W coast of Greece: legendary home of Ulysses. 37 sq. mi. (96 sq. km). Greek Itháki.
- jacinth — a female given name, form of Hyacinth.
- kathryn — a feminine name
- khanate — the area governed by a khan.
- lathing — a machine for use in working wood, metal, etc., that holds the material and rotates it about a horizontal axis against a tool that shapes it.
- lethean — Classical Mythology. a river in Hades whose water caused forgetfulness of the past in those who drank of it.
- lothian — a region in E Scotland. 700 sq. mi. (1813 sq. km).
- mahants — Plural form of mahant.
- manchet — a kind of white bread made from the finest flour.
- manetho — flourished c250 b.c, Egyptian high priest of Heliopolis: author of a history of Egypt.
- manhunt — an intensive search for a criminal, suspect, escaped convict, etc., as by law enforcement agencies.
- manihot — (obsolete) manioc.
- methane — a colorless, odorless, flammable gas, CH 4 , the main constituent of marsh gas and the firedamp of coal mines, obtained commercially from natural gas: the first member of the methane, or alkane, series of hydrocarbons.
- nahuatl — a member of any of various peoples of ancient origin ranging from southeastern Mexico to parts of Central America and including the Aztecs.
- naphtha — a colorless, volatile petroleum distillate, usually an intermediate product between gasoline and benzine, used as a solvent, fuel, etc. Compare mineral spirits.
- narthex — an enclosed passage between the main entrance and the nave of a church.
- nasmyth — James. 1808–90, British engineer; inventor of the steam hammer (1839)
- natasha — a female given name, Russian form of Natalie.
- natchez — a port in SW Mississippi, on the Mississippi River.
- nathans — a prophet during the reigns of David and Solomon. II Sam. 12; I Kings 1:34.
- naughty — improper, tasteless, indecorous, or indecent: a naughty word.
- nethack — (games) /net'hak/ (Unix) A dungeon game similar to rogue but more elaborate, distributed in C source over Usenet and very popular at Unix sites and on PC-class machines (nethack is probably the most widely distributed of the freeware dungeon games). The earliest versions, written by Jay Fenlason and later considerably enhanced by Andries Brouwer, were simply called "hack". The name changed when maintenance was taken over by a group of hackers originally organised by Mike Stephenson. Version: NetHack 3.2 (Apr 1996?). E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- nethead — (slang) An obsessive Internet user.
- nothura — Any member of the genus Nothura of birds in the tinamou family.
- on heat — (of some female mammals) sexually receptive
- on oath — under the obligation of an oath
- onitsha — a city in SW Nigeria, on the Niger River.
- orthian — having a high pitch
- panther — the cougar or puma, Felis concolor.
- pashtun — of or relating to the Pashto-speaking people of Afghanistan and NW Pakistan
- patchen — Kenneth, 1911–72, U.S. poet and novelist.
- phaeton — any of various light, four-wheeled carriages, with or without a top, having one or two seats facing forward, used in the 19th century.
- phantom — an apparition or specter.
- phenate — a phenic acid salt
- phonate — to articulate speech sounds, esp to cause the vocal cords to vibrate in the execution of a voiced speech sound
- phytane — a hydrocarbon found in some fossilized plant remains
- pythian — Also, Pythic. of or relating to Delphi, in ancient Greece.
- rhatany — either of two South American shrubs belonging to the genus Krameria, of the legume family, K. tiandra (knotty rhatany or Peruvian rhatany) or K. argentea (Brazilian rhatany or Pará rhatany)
- rhetian — of or relating to Rhaetia.
- rhytina — a member of an extinct genus of mammals that lived in water, also known as Steller's sea cow
- sanghat — a fellowship or assembly, esp a local Sikh community or congregation
- sarnath — an ancient Buddhist pilgrimage center in N India, near Varanasi: Buddha's first sermon preached here; many ancient Buddhist monuments.