4-letter words containing h, a
- shad — a deep-bodied herring, Alosa sapidissima, of Europe and North America, that migrates up streams to spawn, used for food.
- shag — this dance step.
- shah — (formerly, in Iran) king; sovereign.
- shak — Shakespeare
- sham — something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax.
- shan — a group of Mongoloid tribes in the hills of Burma.
- shat — excrement; feces.
- shaw — Anna Howard, 1847–1919, U.S. physician, reformer, and suffragist, born in England.
- shay — a chaise.
- shea — shea tree.
- shia — a member of one of the two great religious divisions of Islam that regards Ali, the son-in-law of Muhammad, as the legitimate successor of Muhammad, and disregards the three caliphs who succeeded him.
- shoa — a former kingdom in E Africa: now a province of Ethiopia. 25,290 sq. mi. (65,501 sq. km). Capital: Addis Ababa.
- shwa — the mid-central, neutral vowel sound typically occurring in unstressed syllables in English, however spelled, as the sound of a in alone and sofa, e in system, i in easily, o in gallop, u in circus.
- ssha — Scottish Special Housing Association
- syha — Scottish Youth Hostels Association
- tach — tachometer.
- taha — the rufous-necked weaver bird, Pyromelana taha, native to South Africa
- tahr — any of several Old World wild goats of the genus Hemitragus, as H. jemlahicus (Himalayan tahr) introduced into New Zealand, having a long mane and short, stout, recurving horns: most are endangered or threatened in their native regions.
- tanh — hyperbolic tangent; a hyperbolic function that is the ratio of sinh to cosh
- tath — the dung of grazing animals, used as manure to fertilize land
- thai — Also called Thailander [tahy-lan-der, -luh n-] /ˈtaɪˌlæn dər, -lən-/ (Show IPA). a native or descendant of a native of Thailand.
- than — in relation to; by comparison with (usually followed by a pronoun in the objective case): He is a person than whom I can imagine no one more courteous.
- thar — any of several Old World wild goats of the genus Hemitragus, as H. jemlahicus (Himalayan tahr) introduced into New Zealand, having a long mane and short, stout, recurving horns: most are endangered or threatened in their native regions.
- that — (used with adjectives and adverbs of quantity or extent) to the extent or degree indicated: that much; The fish was that big.
- thaw — to pass or change from a frozen to a liquid or semiliquid state; melt.
- thea — a female given name.
- usha — Dawn, a Vedic deity, daughter of Sky and sister of Night.
- utah — a state in the W United States. 84,916 sq. mi. (219,930 sq. km). Capital: Salt Lake City. Abbreviation: UT (for use with zip code), Ut.
- wach — Western Athletic Conference Hockey
- wash — to apply water or some other liquid to (something or someone) for the purpose of cleansing; cleanse by dipping, rubbing, or scrubbing in water or some other liquid.
- wath — (obsolete, except in dialect) A ford.
- wbha — Wheatfield Blades Hockey Association
- wham — a loud sound produced by an explosion or sharp impact: the wham of a pile driver.
- whap — A blow; a hit; a variation of whop.
- what — the true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics: a lecture on the whats and hows of crop rotation.
- whja — Wisconsin Hunter Jumper Association
- whoa — Used as a command to a horse to make it stop or slow down.
- whya — Winslow Hockey Youth Association
- wjha — Warwick Junior Hockey Association
- wmha — WHITBY Minor Hockey Association
- woah — Misspelling of whoa.
- wpha — Wisconsin Professional Horsemans Association
- wqha — Wisconsin Quarter Horse Association
- wyha — Warroad Youth Hockey Association
- yahs — Plural form of yah.
- yeah — yes.
- ymha — Young Men's Hebrew Association
- ywha — Young Women's Hebrew Association
- zach — a male given name, form of Zachary or Zachariah.