7-letter words containing h, a
- breathe — When people or animals breathe, they take air into their lungs and let it out again. When they breathe smoke or a particular kind of air, they take it into their lungs and let it out again as they breathe.
- breaths — the air inhaled and exhaled in respiration.
- breathy — If someone has a breathy voice, you can hear their breath when they speak or sing.
- brecham — a straw collar for a draught-horse or ox
- brenham — a town in central Texas.
- brigham — a male given name.
- brochan — a type of thin porridge
- buchman — Frank Nathan Daniel, 1878–1961, U.S. evangelist, founder of Moral Re-Armament movement.
- bugshah — (formerly) an aluminum-copper coin and monetary unit of the Yemen Arab Republic, the 40th part of a riyal.
- bukhara — a city in S Uzbekistan. Pop: 299 000 (2005 est)
- burdash — a fringed sash worn over a coat
- burghal — (in Scotland) an incorporated town having its own charter and some degree of political independence from the surrounding area.
- burnham — Daniel Hudson, 1846–1912, U.S. architect and city planner.
- bushman — A Bushman is an aboriginal person from the southwestern part of Africa, especially the Kalahari desert region.
- bushwah — rubbishy nonsense; baloney; bull: You'll hear a lot of boring bushwa about his mechanical skill.
- by half — If you increase something by half, half of the original amount is added to it. If you decrease it by half, half of the original amount is taken away from it.
- by hand — If you do something by hand, you do it using your hands rather than a machine.
- by-path — a private path or an indirect or secondary course or means; byway.
- c-sharp — C#
- cachaca — a white Brazilian rum made from sugar cane
- cachets — Plural form of cachet.
- cachexy — (medicine, archaic) Cachexia.
- caching — cache
- cachous — Plural form of cachou.
- caddish — like or characteristic of a cad; ungentlemanly
- cafileh — Alternative form of cafila.
- cahokia — a city in SW Illinois.
- cahoots — partnership; league (esp in the phrases go in cahoots with, go cahoot)
- calchas — a soothsayer who assisted the Greeks in the Trojan War
- caleche — calash
- calhoun — John Caldwell1782-1850; U.S. statesman: vice president (1825-32)
- caliche — a bed of sand or clay in arid regions cemented by calcium carbonate, sodium chloride, and other soluble minerals
- caliphs — Plural form of caliph.
- calmeth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calm.
- caltech — the California Institute of Technology
- camacho — Manuel Ávila [mah-nwel ah-vee-lah] /mɑˈnwɛl ˈɑ viˌlɑ/ (Show IPA). Manuel Avila Camacho.
- camphol — borneol
- camphor — Camphor is a strong-smelling white substance used in various medicines, in mothballs, and in making plastics.
- can tho — a town in S Vietnam, on the River Mekong. Pop: 368 000 (2005 est)
- can-tho — a town in S Vietnam, on the Mekong River.
- cannach — any of various bog plants of the cyperaceous genus Eriophorum; cotton grass
- canthus — the inner or outer corner or angle of the eye, formed by the natural junction of the eyelids
- capeesh — Do you understand?.
- capiche — (chiefly, US) Alternative form of capisce.
- captcha — Captcha is a system for checking that a human and not a machine is using a computer. Captcha is an abbreviation for 'completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart'.
- capuche — a large hood or cowl, esp that worn by Capuchin friars
- carhops — Plural form of carhop.
- carlish — churlish or coarse
- caroche — a stately ceremonial carriage used in the 16th and 17th centuries
- carwash — a place, usually an area at a filling station, which has special equipment, such as rotating brushes and water jets, to wash a car