8-letter words containing h, i
- agraphic — having or relating to agraphia
- aguishly — in an aguish manner
- 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.
- 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.
- airships — Plural form of airship.
- airshows — Plural form of airshow.
- airtight — If a container is airtight, its lid fits so tightly that no air can get in or out.
- alberich — (in medieval German legend) the king of the dwarfs and guardian of the treasures of the Nibelungs
- albright — Horace Marden [mahrd-n] /ˈmɑrd n/ (Show IPA), 1890–1987, U.S. conservationist and cofounder of the National Park Service.
- alchemic — a form of chemistry and speculative philosophy practiced in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and concerned principally with discovering methods for transmuting baser metals into gold and with finding a universal solvent and an elixir of life.
- alchuine — (Ealhwine Flaccus) a.d. 735–804, English theologian and scholar: teacher and adviser of Charlemagne.
- alcithoe — a daughter of Minyas who was driven mad for mocking Dionysus.
- aleichem — Sholom, real name Solomon Rabinowitz. 1859–1916, US Jewish writer, born in Russia. His works include Tevye the Milkman, which was adapted for the stage musical Fiddler on the Roof
- alekhine — Alexander. 1892–1946, Russian-born chess player who lived in France; world champion (1927–35, 1937–46)
- alighted — Simple past tense and past participle of alight.
- all hail — an archaic greeting or salutation
- allright — yes; very well; OK: All right, I'll go with you.
- allyship — The role or status of being an ally.
- almighty — The Almighty is another name for God. You can also refer to Almighty God.
- almirahs — Plural form of almirah.
- alphosis — absence of skin pigmentation, as in albinism
- alrighty — Lb informal Used to affirm, indicate agreement, or consent.
- amakhosi — Plural form of inkhosi.
- amchitka — an island off the coast of SW Alaska, in the W part of the Aleutian Islands: site of U.S. air base during World War II. 40 miles (64 km) long.
- amicheme — Associate Member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers
- amidship — in or toward the middle part of a ship or aircraft; midway between the ends.
- amimeche — Associate Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
- amitabha — (in Pure Land sects) a Bodhisattva who presides over a Pure Land in the west of the universe
- amorphic — Having no defined shape, lacking form; amorphous.
- amphibia — the amphibians considered collectively
- amphipod — any marine or freshwater crustacean of the order Amphipoda, such as the sand hoppers, in which the body is laterally compressed: subclass Malacostraca
- amphiuma — an aquatic, eellike salamander of the genus Amphiuma, of the southeastern U.S., having two pairs of very small feet.
- amphoric — resembling the sound produced by blowing into a bottle. Amphoric breath sounds are heard through a stethoscope placed over a cavity in the lung
- anarchic — If you describe someone or something as anarchic, you disapprove of them because they do not recognize or obey any rules or laws.
- anch'ing — a city in S Anhui province, in E China, on the Chang Jiang: former capital of Anhui.
- anchises — a Trojan prince and father of Aeneas. In the Aeneid, he is rescued by his son at the fall of Troy and dies in Sicily
- anchusin — alkanet (sense 1) alkanet (sense 1c)
- andizhan — a city in E Uzbekistan. Pop: 413 000 (2005 est)
- anechoic — having a low degree of reverberation of sound