8-letter words containing a, t, h
- barthian — of or relating to Karl Barth, or his ideas
- base hit — a play in which the batter hits a fair ball and gets on base without benefit of an opponent's error and without forcing out a runner already on base
- bash out — If you say that someone bashes something out, you mean that they produce it quickly or in large quantities, but without much care or thought.
- bashment — (slang, countable, especially Jamaican) A party or rave.
- batching — a quantity or number coming at one time or taken together: a batch of prisoners.
- bath bun — a sweet bun containing spices and dried fruit
- bath mat — a mat or washable rug used to stand on when entering or leaving a bath.
- bath oil — scented oil added to bath water
- bathcube — a cube of soluble scented material for use in a bath
- bathetic — containing or displaying bathos
- bathless — without a bath
- bathmats — Plural form of bathmat.
- bathmism — a hypothetical growth-force, once thought to animate living beings
- bathorse — a horse which carries a military officer's baggage; a military packhorse
- bathrobe — A bathrobe is a loose piece of clothing made of the same material as towels. You wear it before or after you have a bath or a swim.
- bathroom — A bathroom is a room in a house that contains a bath or shower, a washbasin, and sometimes a toilet.
- bathtubs — Plural form of bathtub.
- bathurst — a town in SE Australia, in E New South Wales: scene of a gold rush in 1851. Pop: 27 036 (2001)
- bayreuth — a city in E Germany, in NE Bavaria: home and burial place of Richard Wagner; annual festivals of his music. Pop: 74 818 (2003 est)
- beathing — Present participle of beath.
- behatted — wearing a hat
- benthoal — relating to deep-sea plants and animals
- bequeath — If you bequeath your money or property to someone, you legally state that they should have it when you die.
- berthage — a place for mooring boats
- bethesda — a pool in Jerusalem reputed to have healing powers, where a paralysed man was healed by Jesus (John 5:2)
- bethpage — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- bethrall — to make a slave of
- bethwack — to strike hard with a flat object
- bhatpara — a city in NE India, in West Bengal on the Hooghly River: jute and cotton mills. Pop: 441 956 (2001)
- biathlon — a contest in which skiers with rifles shoot at four targets along a 20-kilometre (12.5-mile) cross-country course
- birdbath — a small basin or trough for birds to bathe in, usually in a garden
- birthday — Your birthday is the anniversary of the date on which you were born.
- bithynia — an ancient country on the Black Sea in NW Asia Minor
- boathook — a pole with a hook at one end, used aboard a vessel for fending off other vessels or obstacles or for catching a line or mooring buoy
- boethian — Anicius Manlius Severinus [uh-nish-ee-uh s man-lee-uh s sev-uh-rahy-nuh s] /əˈnɪʃ i əs ˈmæn li əs ˌsɛv əˈraɪ nəs/ (Show IPA), a.d. 475?–525? Roman philosopher and statesman.
- bolthead — the head of a bolt
- bothyman — a person who lives in a bothy
- bratchet — a brach or brachet hound
- breathed — relating to or denoting a speech sound for whose articulation the vocal cords are not made to vibrate
- breather — If you take a breather, you stop what you are doing for a short time and have a rest.
- breathes — to take air, oxygen, etc., into the lungs and expel it; inhale and exhale; respire.
- bush tea — a leguminous shrub of the genus Cyclopia, of southern Africa
- bushgoat — a S African antelope
- bushmeat — meat taken from any animal native to African forests, including species that may be endangered or not usually eaten outside Africa
- but that — about the fact that
- butthead — a stupid person
- by heart — If you know something such as a poem by heart, you have learned it so well that you can remember it without having to read it.
- by-catch — unwanted fish and other sea animals caught in a fishing net along with the desired kind of fish
- cachalot — sperm whale
- cachepot — an ornamental container for a flowerpot