8-letter words containing h, s, a
- pushback — a mechanism that forces an object backward.
- pushball — a game played with a large, heavy ball, usually about 6 feet (1.8 meters) in diameter, which two sides attempt to push to opposite goals.
- pushcard — punchboard.
- pushcart — any of various types of wheeled light cart to be pushed by hand, as one used by street vendors.
- quackish — a fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill.
- qualmish — tending to have, or having, qualms.
- quasheba — (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba) Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba) Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba) Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba) Thursday (Quao and Abba) Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi) and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba)
- quashing — Present participle of quash.
- rachises — Plural form of rachis.
- rachitis — rickets.
- rainwash — material eroded or swept away by rain.
- rakshasa — a demon in Hindu mythology
- rashness — acting or tending to act too hastily or without due consideration.
- rathouse — a psychiatric hospital or asylum
- ravisher — to fill with strong emotion, especially joy.
- rawmaish — foolish or exaggerated talk; nonsense
- redshank — an Old World sandpiper, Tringa totanus, having red legs and feet.
- redshare — any red algae, esp one belonging to the genus Polysiphonia
- rehashed — to work up (old material) in a new form.
- rehearse — to practice (a musical composition, a play, a speech, etc.) in private prior to a public presentation.
- rephrase — to phrase again or differently: He rephrased the statement to give it less formality.
- research — to make researches; investigate carefully.
- reshaper — a person or thing that reshapes
- rhagades — linear cracks or scars found in the skin at the angles of the nose and mouth which are one of the later signs of congenital syphilis
- rhamnose — deoxymannose; a deoxy hexose sugar, C 6 H 1 2 O 5 , that is an important component of the polysaccharides of plant cell walls.
- rhapsode — in ancient Greece, a person who recited rhapsodies, esp. one who recited epic poems as a profession
- rhapsody — Music. an instrumental composition irregular in form and suggestive of improvisation.
- rheobase — the minimum electric current required to excite a given nerve or muscle.
- rheostat — an adjustable resistor so constructed that its resistance may be changed without opening the circuit in which it is connected, thereby controlling the current in the circuit.
- rhodesia — (as Southern Rhodesia, ) a former British colony in S Africa: declared independence 1965; name changed to Zimbabwe, 1979.
- richards — a male given name.
- rickshaw — jinrikisha.
- 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.
- roadshow — travelling entertainment
- romansch — a group of Rhaetian dialects spoken in the Swiss canton of Graubünden; an official language of Switzerland since 1938
- roswitha — Hrotsvitha.
- rothesay — a town in the Strathclyde region, on Bute island, in SW Scotland: resort; ruins of 11th-century castle.
- rush mat — a small piece of material made from rushes (plants of the genus Juncus), which is put on the ground or floor for protection, decoration, or comfort
- sacchar- — saccharo-
- sacheted — contained in a sachet
- saganash — (among the Algonquian Indians) a European
- sage hen — the sage grouse, especially the female.
- saguache — Sawatch.
- 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).
- sakharov — Andrei (Dmitrievich) [ahn-drey di-mee-tree-uh-vich;; Russian uhn-dryey dmyee-tryi-yi-vyich] /ˈɑn dreɪ dɪˈmi tri ə vɪtʃ;; Russian ʌnˈdryeɪ ˈdmyi tryɪ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1921–1989, Russian nuclear physicist and human-rights advocate: Nobel Peace Prize 1975.