8-letter words containing h, s, a
- salishan — a family of American Indian languages including Coeur d'Alêne, Kalispel, and other languages of British Columbia and the northwestern U.S.
- salt hay — hay made up of salt grass, often used as fodder or as a mulch.
- saltbush — any of various plants or shrubs of the genus Atriplex, having mostly alternate leaves and clusters of inconspicuous flowers, often growing in saline or alkaline soil.
- 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?
- samantha — a female given name: from an Aramaic word meaning “listener.”.
- 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.
- sandheap — a heap of sand
- sandhill — a hill of sand, esp a dune on the seashore
- sandshoe — a light tennis shoe; sneaker.
- sandwich — a town in E Kent, in SE England: one of the Cinque Ports.
- sandyish — somewhat sandy
- sap bush — sugarbush (def 2).
- sapphira — a woman who, with her husband, Ananias, was struck dead for lying. Acts 5.
- sapphire — any gem variety of corundum other than the ruby, especially one of the blue varieties.
- sapphism — lesbianism.
- sapphist — a lesbian
- sargodha — a city in NE Pakistan.
- sarpanch — the head of a panchayat
- sash bar — muntin (def 1).
- sash saw — a small tenon saw used for cutting sashes
- sashayed — to glide, move, or proceed easily or nonchalantly: She just sashayed in as if she owned the place.
- sashless — lacking a window or wall sash
- sather-k — (language) Karlsruhe Sather. A sublanguage of Sather used for introductory courses in object-oriented design and typesafe programming. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- savannah — a plain characterized by coarse grasses and scattered tree growth, especially on the margins of the tropics where the rainfall is seasonal, as in eastern Africa.
- sawhorse — a movable frame or trestle for supporting wood being sawed.
- sawshark — a shark with a long, flat, saw-like snout from the family Pristiophoridae and found in waters from South Africa to Australia and Japan
- sawtooth — one of the cutting teeth of a saw.
- say what — the true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics: a lecture on the whats and hows of crop rotation.
- say when — to state when an action is to be stopped or begun, as when someone is pouring a drink
- scampish — an unscrupulous and often mischievous person; rascal; rogue; scalawag.
- scaphoid — boat-shaped; navicular.
- scarfish — a fish in the family Scaridae
- scathing — bitterly severe, as a remark: a scathing review of the play.
- schantze — a pile of stones heaped to shelter soldiers from gunfire
- schapska — a cavalry helmet with a flat, square top
- schawlow — Arthur Leonard, 1921–99, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1981.
- schemata — a diagram, plan, or scheme. Synonyms: outline, framework, model.
- schiedam — a city in SW Netherlands.
- schlager — a type of European popular music focusing on love and feelings
- schmaltz — Informal. exaggerated sentimentalism, as in music or soap operas.
- schmatte — an old ragged garment; tattered article of clothing.
- schnabel — Artur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1882–1951, Austrian pianist.
- schnapps — (in Europe) any strong, dry spirit, as slivovitz, aquavit, or kirsch.
- schryari — a musical woodwind instrument of the 16th and 17th centuries having a double reed concealed in a cylinder and producing a shrill tone.
- schumann — Clara (Clara Wieck) 1819–96, German pianist and composer (wife of Robert Schumann).
- schwaben — German name of Swabia.
- schwartz — Delmore [del-mawr,, -mohr] /ˈdɛl mɔr,, -moʊr/ (Show IPA), 1913–1966, U.S. poet, short-story writer, and critic.
- scratchy — causing or liable to cause a slight grating noise: a scratchy record.