8-letter words containing h, o, a, g
- laghouat — a city in N Algeria.
- laoighis — a county in Leinster, in the central Republic of Ireland. 623 sq. mi. (1615 sq. km). County seat: Port Laoighise.
- laughton — Charles, 1899–1962, U.S. actor, born in England.
- loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
- logomach — Someone who argues about the meaning of words.
- longhair — Sometimes Disparaging. an intellectual.
- longhand — writing of the ordinary kind, in which words are written out in full (distinguished from shorthand).
- longhead — a dolichocephalic person.
- mah jong — a game of Chinese origin usually played by four persons with 144 dominolike pieces or tiles marked in suits, counters, and dice, the object being to build a winning combination of pieces.
- mahjongg — Alternative spelling of mahjong.
- mahogany — any of several tropical American trees of the genus Swietenia, especially S. mahagoni and S. macrophylla, yielding hard, reddish-brown wood used for making furniture.
- manchego — a Spanish cheese made from ewes' milk
- monaghan — a county in the NE Republic of Ireland. 498 sq. mi. (1290 sq. km). County seat: Monaghan.
- moss hag — an area, pit, or hole from which peat has been dug.
- myograph — an instrument for recording the contractions and relaxations of muscles.
- nanchong — a city in E central Sichuan province, in central China.
- oanshagh — a foolish girl or woman
- odograph — a recording odometer.
- oghamist — Alternative capitalization of Oghamist.
- oligarch — one of the rulers in an oligarchy.
- omophagy — The eating of raw food, especially raw meat.
- orangish — resembling or suggesting an orange, as in taste, appearance, or color: decorated with orangy-pink flowers.
- outlaugh — (transitive) To ridicule or laugh someone out of a purpose, principle, etc.; laugh down; discourage or put out of countenance by laughing.
- overhang — to hang or be suspended over: A great chandelier overhung the ballroom.
- pagehood — the office of, or state of being, a page
- pathogen — any disease-producing agent, especially a virus, bacterium, or other microorganism.
- poaching — the illegal practice of trespassing on another's property to hunt or steal game without the landowner's permission.
- prograph — (language) A visual dataflow programming language and environment from the Technical University of Halifax. Prograph is an entirely graphical visual programming language, other than for the text of method names, and supports the program development process in a highly-interactive fashion. Operation icons are connected by data links through which information flows. It supports object orientation via class-based data abstraction with single inheritance. Prograph is available for the Macintosh, and soon for Windows and Unix, from TGS Systems.
- prophage — a stable, inherited form of bacteriophage in which the genetic material of the virus is integrated into, replicated, and expressed with the genetic material of the bacterial host.
- pugachov — Yemelyan Ivanovich. 1726–75, Russian Cossack rebel, leader of a major revolt against the government of Catherine II: executed
- 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.
- road hog — a driver who obstructs traffic by occupying parts of two lanes.
- roughage — rough or coarse material.
- sargodha — a city in NE Pakistan.
- shagroon — a nineteenth-century Australian settler in Canterbury
- shandong — a maritime province in E China. 59,189 sq. mi. (153,299 sq. km). Capital: Jinan.
- shaoxing — a city in NE Zhejiang province, in E China.
- shaoyang — a city in central Hunan province, in E China.
- she-goat — a female goat
- shoaling — any large number of persons or things.
- shortage — a deficiency in quantity: a shortage of cash.
- show bag — a bag containing samples, promotional material, etc, given out at trade fairs and other such events
- staghorn — a piece of a stag's antler, especially when used to form objects, decorations, or the like.
- swagshop — a shop selling cheap goods
- taizhong — Taichung.
- the goat — the constellation Capricorn, the tenth sign of the zodiac
- thongage — an additional charge made at a restaurant to a patron wearing thongs (flip-flops)
- tombaugh — Clyde William, 1906–97, U.S. astronomer: discovered Pluto 1930.
- tongshan — former name of Xuzhou.
- van gogh — Vincent [vin-suh nt;; Dutch vin-sent] /ˈvɪn sənt;; Dutch vɪnˈsɛnt/ (Show IPA), 1853–90, Dutch painter.