8-letter words containing h, i, a
- prichard — a city in S Alabama.
- qing hai — a lake in W central China, in NE Qinghai province. 2300 sq. mi. (5950 sq. km).
- quackish — a fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill.
- qualmish — tending to have, or having, qualms.
- quashing — Present participle of quash.
- rabbitoh — (formerly) an itinerant seller of rabbits for eating
- rachilla — a small or secondary rachis, as the axis of a spikelet in a grass inflorescence.
- rachises — Plural form of rachis.
- rachitic — rickets.
- rachitis — rickets.
- railhead — the farthest point to which the rails of a railroad have been laid.
- rainwash — material eroded or swept away by rain.
- ranching — an establishment maintained for raising livestock under range conditions.
- raphania — a type of ergotism possibly resulting from ingestion of the poison from radish seeds
- rathripe — mature or ripe ahead of time
- ravisher — to fill with strong emotion, especially joy.
- rawmaish — foolish or exaggerated talk; nonsense
- rayleigh — John William Strutt [struht] /strʌt/ (Show IPA), 3rd Baron, 1842–1919, English physicist: Nobel prize 1904.
- rezaiyeh — a city in NW Iran.
- rhabdoid — a rod-shaped structure found in the cells of some plants and animals
- rhaetian — of or relating to Rhaetia.
- rheingau — a small wine-growing region in Hesse, in central Germany, on the Rhine.
- rhematic — pertaining to the formation of words.
- rhiannon — the wife of Pwyll who, accused of having eaten her son, was forced as a penance to carry people on her back until vindicated by her son's return.
- rhodanic — of or relating to thiocyanic acid
- rhodesia — (as Southern Rhodesia, ) a former British colony in S Africa: declared independence 1965; name changed to Zimbabwe, 1979.
- rhopalic — (of poetry) in which each successive word has one more syllable than the word before
- richards — a male given name.
- richland — a city in SE Washington, on the Columbia River: residential and administrative quarters for the Hanford Works. Compare Hanford (def 2).
- rickshaw — jinrikisha.
- rinehart — Mary Roberts, 1876–1958, U.S. novelist and playwright.
- ringhals — a highly venomous snake, Hemachatus haemachatus, of southern Africa, related to the cobras, having one to three light-colored bands across its throat and characterized by its ability to accurately spit its venom up to 7 feet (2.1 meter) away.
- rinkhals — ringhals.
- roaching — Nautical. the upward curve at the foot of a square sail. (loosely) a convexity given to any of the edges of a sail; round.
- roswitha — Hrotsvitha.
- roth ira — A Roth IRA is a kind of retirement account where contributions are made with taxed money, and distributions are tax-free.
- ruthenia — a former province in E Czechoslovakia.
- sahaptin — a member of an American Indian people of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.
- saharian — a desert in N Africa, extending from the Atlantic to the Nile valley. About 3,500,000 sq. mi. (9,065,000 sq. km).
- sailfish — any of several large scombroid game fishes of the genus Istiophorus, such as I. albicans (Atlantic sailfish), of warm and tropical seas: family Istiophoridae. They have an elongated upper jaw and a long sail-like dorsal fin
- saintish — resembling a saint
- sakhalin — an island of the Russian Federation in the Sea of Okhotsk, N of Japan: formerly (1905-45) divided between the Soviet Union and Japan. 29,100 sq. mi. (75,369 sq. km).
- salishan — a family of American Indian languages including Coeur d'Alêne, Kalispel, and other languages of British Columbia and the northwestern U.S.
- saltfish — salted cod
- sam hill — hell (used especially in WH-questions as a mild oath expressing exasperation and usually preceded by in or the): Who in Sam Hill are you?
- samphire — a European succulent plant, Crithmum maritimum, of the parsley family, having compound leaves and small, whitish flowers, growing in clefts of rock near the sea.
- 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