8-letter words containing h, a
- achingly — You can use achingly for emphasis when you are referring to things that create feelings of wanting something very much, but of not being able to have it.
- achroite — the colorless or white variety of tourmaline, often used as a gem.
- achromat — a lens designed to bring light of two chosen wavelengths to the same focal point, thus reducing chromatic aberration
- achromia — (medicine) Absence of pigmentation, especially in the skin or blood.
- achromic — colourless
- achronic — Timeless.
- achroous — Colorless; achromatic.
- acidhead — a person who uses LSD
- acquight — to acquit
- acrolith — (esp in ancient Greek sculpture) a wooden, often draped figure with only the head, hands, and feet in stone
- actorish — of, relating to, or characteristic of an actor
- adherend — a material attached using adhesive
- adherent — An adherent is someone who holds a particular belief or supports a particular person or group.
- adherers — Plural form of adherer.
- adhering — to stay attached; stick fast; cleave; cling (usually followed by to): The mud adhered to his shoes.
- adhesion — Adhesion is the ability of one thing to stick firmly to another.
- adhesive — An adhesive is a substance such as glue, which is used to make things stick firmly together.
- admonish — If you admonish someone, you tell them very seriously that they have done something wrong.
- adonijah — a son of David, put to death at the order of Solomon. II Sam. 3:4; I Kings 2:19–25.
- aerolith — a meteorite consisting mainly of stony matter.
- aesthete — An aesthete is someone who loves and appreciates works of art and beautiful things.
- aetheric — ether (defs 3–5).
- affright — to frighten
- afghanis — Plural form of afghani.
- aga khan — the hereditary title of the head of the Ismaili sect of Muslims
- agalloch — the fragrant, resinous wood of an East Indian tree, Aquilaria agallocha, of the mezereum family, used as incense in Asia.
- agathism — The doctrine that the ultimate end of all things is good, although the intermediate means may be evil.
- agathist — A person who believes in agathism.
- agnathan — any jawless eel-like aquatic vertebrate of the superclass Agnatha, which includes the lampreys and hagfishes
- agraphia — loss of the ability to write, resulting from a brain lesion
- agraphic — having or relating to agraphia
- agraphon — saying of Jesus not in Gospels
- aguishly — in an aguish manner
- ahankara — the false identification of the purusha, or true inner self, with the body, the mind, or the outside world.
- ahead of — If someone is ahead of you, they are directly in front of you. If someone is moving ahead of you, they are in front of you and moving in the same direction.
- ahemeral — not constituting a full 24-hour day
- ahmadiya — a modern sect, divided into an older group (Qadianis) and a newer group (Lahore party)
- ahmose i — 1580–1557 b.c, founder of the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt.
- ahuzzath — a friend of Abimelech with whom he journeyed from Gerar to make a covenant with Isaac in Beersheba. Gen. 26:26–31.
- air hole — a hole that allows the passage of air, esp for ventilation
- air horn — a horn activated by compressed air.
- air shot — a shot that misses the ball completely but counts as a stroke
- air-ship — to send or ship via aircraft: to air-ship machine parts overseas.
- airbrush — An airbrush is an artist's tool which sprays paint onto a surface.
- aircheck — a recording made from a radio or television broadcast, often used for demonstration or quality control purposes
- aircoach — a bus that transports passengers to and from an airport
- airgraph — a system devised in the Second World War in which letters were photographed in miniature and sent by airmail
- airheads — Plural form of airhead.
- airlight — light scattered or diffused in the air by dust, haze, etc., especially as it limits the visibility of distant, dark objects by causing them to blend with the background sky.
- airshaft — (architecture) A vertical opening running from a courtyard to the sky, thus allowing air to circulate to high-rise apartments or offices.