8-letter words containing d, i, s, h, a
- headfish — ocean sunfish.
- headings — Plural form of heading.
- headsail — any of various jibs or staysails set forward of the foremost mast of a vessel.
- headship — the position of head or chief; chief authority; leadership; supremacy.
- helipads — Plural form of helipad.
- herodias — the second wife of Herod Antipas and the mother of Salome: she told Salome to ask Herod for the head of John the Baptist.
- hidalgos — Plural form of hidalgo.
- hindcast — to test (a mathematical model) by observing whether it would have correctly predicted a historical event
- hinsdale — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- holidays — Plural form of holiday.
- hydatids — Plural form of hydatid.
- jadishly — In a jadish manner.
- jihadism — a jihadi.
- jihadist — a jihadi.
- jim dash — a dash, often three ems long, used within a headline, between the headline and the main body of printed matter, between items in a single column, or between related but different material within a story.
- ladyfish — a game fish, Elops saurus, of warm seas, closely related to but smaller than the tarpon.
- ladyship — (often initial capital letter) the form used in speaking of or to a woman having the title of Lady (usually preceded by her or your).
- lavished — expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion: lavish spending.
- misheard — to hear incorrectly or imperfectly: to mishear a remark.
- padishah — (often initial capital letter) great king; emperor (a title applied especially formerly to the shah of Iran, the sultan of Turkey, and to the British sovereign as emperor in India).
- parishad — (in India) an assembly
- pheidias — Phidias
- pisshead — a drunkard
- rhodesia — (as Southern Rhodesia, ) a former British colony in S Africa: declared independence 1965; name changed to Zimbabwe, 1979.
- richards — a male given name.
- sandfish — either of two scaleless fishes of the family Trichodontidae, of the North Pacific, that live in sand or mud.
- sandhill — a hill of sand, esp a dune on the seashore
- sandwich — a town in E Kent, in SE England: one of the Cinque Ports.
- sandyish — somewhat sandy
- scaphoid — boat-shaped; navicular.
- schiedam — a city in SW Netherlands.
- semihard — partly hard; not completely hard
- sephardi — a Jew of Spanish, Portuguese, or North African descent
- shadiest — abounding in shade; shaded: shady paths.
- shadings — a slight variation or difference of color, character, etc.
- sheading — any of the six subdivisions of the Isle of Man
- sheridan — Philip Henry, 1831–88, Union general in the Civil War.
- shin pad — A shin pad is a thick piece of material that you wear inside your socks to protect the lower part of your leg when you are playing a game such as football or rugby.
- shipload — a full load for a ship.
- shipyard — a yard or enclosure in which ships are built or repaired.
- shithead — a stupid, inept, unlikable, or contemptible person.
- shitload — a lot of something; a large amount.
- sidehead — a heading or subhead run in the margin of a book or magazine.
- sidepath — a minor path
- skinhead — a baldheaded man.
- soapdish — a shallow container for a bar of soap, used in a bathroom
- spithead — a roadstead off the S coast of England between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.
- standish — Burt L. pseudonym of Gilbert Patten.
- swadeshi — a political movement in British India that encouraged domestic production and the boycott of foreign, especially British, goods as a step toward home rule.
- toadfish — any of several thick-headed, wide-mouthed fishes of the family Batrachoididae, as Opsanus tau (oyster toadfish) ranging along the Atlantic coast of the U.S.