6-letter words containing h, a
- asthma — Asthma is a lung condition which causes difficulty in breathing.
- athame — (in Wicca) a witch's ceremonial knife, usually with a black handle, used in rituals rather than for cutting or carving
- athans — Plural form of athan.
- athena — a virgin goddess of wisdom, practical skills, and prudent warfare. She was born, fully armed, from the head of Zeus
- athene — Also, Athene [uh-thee-nee] /əˈθi ni/ (Show IPA). Also called Pallas, Pallas Athena. the virgin deity of the ancient Greeks worshiped as the goddess of wisdom, fertility, the useful arts, and prudent warfare. At her birth she sprang forth fully armed from the head of her father, Zeus. Compare Minerva.
- athens — the capital of Greece, in the southeast near the Saronic Gulf: became capital after independence in 1834; ancient city-state, most powerful in the 5th century bc; contains the hill citadel of the Acropolis. Pop: 3 238 000 (2005 est)
- athlon — (hardware) (K7) AMD's 7th generation x86 processor, released in June 1999. Athlon uses a Slot A motherboard and is not compatible with Slot 1 motherboards.
- athrob — pulsing or throbbing
- attach — If you attach something to an object, you join it or fasten it to the object.
- aughts — Archaic. ownership; possession. property; a possession.
- auroch — Alternative spelling of aurochs.
- author — The author of a piece of writing is the person who wrote it.
- avouch — to vouch for; guarantee
- awatch — watching or looking out for
- aweigh — (of an anchor) no longer hooked into the bottom; hanging by its rode
- awhato — the mummified body of a caterpillar killed by the fungus Cordyceps robertsii, sometimes used as a dye
- awheel — on wheels
- awhile — Awhile means for a short time. It is more commonly spelled 'a while', which is considered more correct, especially in British English.
- awhirl — in a whirling, confused state
- axhead — Alternative spelling of axe head.
- ayesha — Aisha
- ba'ath — designating or of a political party formed in Syria in the 1940s: separate factions of the party have ruled Syria since 1970 and ruled Iraq from 1968 to 2003
- ba--th — a socialist party of some Arab countries, especially Iraq and Syria.
- babish — Like a babe; childish; babyish.
- bablah — the rind of the fruit of several varieties of acacia, containing tannin and therefore used as a dye
- bached — Simple past tense and past participle of bach.
- baghla — an Arabian sailing vessel, having lugsails on two or three masts, a straight, raking stem, and a transom stern.
- baha'i — an adherent of the Baha'í Faith
- bahaei — a religion founded in Iran in 1863 by Husayn ʿAlī (called Bahaullah), teaching the essential worth of all religions, the unity of all peoples, and the equality of the sexes.
- bahutu — Hutu
- balche — (among the Yucatec Maya) a drink made from the bark of a leguminous tree, Lonchocarpus violaceus, which is soaked in honey and water and fermented.
- baluch — Baluchi.
- banish — If someone or something is banished from a place or area of activity, they are sent away from it and prevented from entering it.
- barhop — to visit several bars in succession
- barish — quite thinly covered or bare
- barthe — Richmond, 1901–1989, U.S. sculptor.
- baruch — a disciple of Jeremiah (Jeremiah 32–36)
- bashan — a region to the east of the Jordan, renowned for its rich pasture (Deuteronomy 32:14)
- bashaw — an important or pompous person
- bashed — to strike with a crushing or smashing blow.
- basher — to strike with a crushing or smashing blow.
- bashes — to strike with a crushing or smashing blow.
- bashir — Dame Marie (Roslyn). born 1930, Australian health administrator and campaigner: governor of New South Wales (2001–14)
- bathed — If someone is bathed in sweat, they are sweating a great deal.
- bather — A bather is a person who is swimming in the sea, or in a river or lake.
- bathes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bathe.
- batho- — depth
- bathos — In literary criticism, bathos is a sudden change in speech or writing from a serious or important subject to a ridiculous or very ordinary one.
- bathy- — indicating depth
- bauchi — a state of N Nigeria; tin mining. Capital: Bauchi. Pop: 4 676 465 (2006). Area: 45 837 sq km (17 698 sq miles)