7-letter words containing h
- bushido — the feudal code of the Japanese samurai, stressing self-discipline, courage and loyalty
- bushing — an adaptor having ends of unequal diameters, often with internal screw threads, used to connect pipes of different sizes
- bushire — a port in SW Iran, on the Persian Gulf; nuclear power station. Pop: 166 000 (2005 est)
- bushism — any apparently fatuous statement attributed to George W. Bush
- bushman — A Bushman is an aboriginal person from the southwestern part of Africa, especially the Kalahari desert region.
- bushmen — a woodsman.
- bushpig — a wild pig, Potamochoerus porcus, inhabiting forests in tropical Africa and Madagascar. It is brown or black, with pale markings on the face
- bushtit — any small grey active North American songbird of the genus Psaltriparus, such as P. minimus (common bushtit): family Paridae (titmice)
- bushwah — rubbishy nonsense; baloney; bull: You'll hear a lot of boring bushwa about his mechanical skill.
- butcher — A butcher is a shopkeeper who cuts up and sells meat. Some butchers also kill animals for meat and make foods such as sausages and meat pies.
- by half — If you increase something by half, half of the original amount is added to it. If you decrease it by half, half of the original amount is taken away from it.
- by hand — If you do something by hand, you do it using your hands rather than a machine.
- by-path — a private path or an indirect or secondary course or means; byway.
- c shell — (operating system) (csh) The Unix command-line interpreter shell and script language by William Joy, originating from Berkeley Unix. Presumably, csh's C-like syntax was intended to endear it to programmers but sadly it lacks some sh features which are useful for writing shell scripts so you need to know two different syntaxes for every shell construct. A plethora of different shells followed csh, e.g. tcsh, ksh, bash, rc, but sh and csh are the only ones which are provided with most versions of Unix.
- c-sharp — C#
- cachaca — a white Brazilian rum made from sugar cane
- cachets — Plural form of cachet.
- cachexy — (medicine, archaic) Cachexia.
- caching — cache
- cachous — Plural form of cachou.
- caddish — like or characteristic of a cad; ungentlemanly
- cafileh — Alternative form of cafila.
- cahokia — a city in SW Illinois.
- cahoots — partnership; league (esp in the phrases go in cahoots with, go cahoot)
- calchas — a soothsayer who assisted the Greeks in the Trojan War
- caleche — calash
- calhoun — John Caldwell1782-1850; U.S. statesman: vice president (1825-32)
- caliche — a bed of sand or clay in arid regions cemented by calcium carbonate, sodium chloride, and other soluble minerals
- caliphs — Plural form of caliph.
- calmeth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calm.
- caltech — the California Institute of Technology
- camacho — Manuel Ávila [mah-nwel ah-vee-lah] /mɑˈnwɛl ˈɑ viˌlɑ/ (Show IPA). Manuel Avila Camacho.
- camphol — borneol
- camphor — Camphor is a strong-smelling white substance used in various medicines, in mothballs, and in making plastics.
- can tho — a town in S Vietnam, on the River Mekong. Pop: 368 000 (2005 est)
- can-tho — a town in S Vietnam, on the Mekong River.
- cannach — any of various bog plants of the cyperaceous genus Eriophorum; cotton grass
- canthus — the inner or outer corner or angle of the eye, formed by the natural junction of the eyelids
- capeesh — Do you understand?.
- capiche — (chiefly, US) Alternative form of capisce.
- captcha — Captcha is a system for checking that a human and not a machine is using a computer. Captcha is an abbreviation for 'completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart'.
- capuche — a large hood or cowl, esp that worn by Capuchin friars
- carhops — Plural form of carhop.
- carlish — churlish or coarse
- caroche — a stately ceremonial carriage used in the 16th and 17th centuries
- carwash — a place, usually an area at a filling station, which has special equipment, such as rotating brushes and water jets, to wash a car
- casbahs — Plural form of casbah.
- cash in — If you say that someone cashes in on a situation, you are criticizing them for using it to gain an advantage, often in an unfair or dishonest way.
- cash up — (of cashiers, shopkeepers, etc) to add up the money taken, esp at the end of a working day
- cash-in — redemption, as of mutual-fund shares.