7-letter words containing h
- abhored — Misspelling of abhorred.
- abideth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abide.
- abishag — a young maiden brought to David in his old age as a nurse and companion. I Kings 1:1–4.
- abolish — If someone in authority abolishes a system or practice, they formally put an end to it.
- abought — simple past tense and past participle of aby.
- abraham — the first of the patriarchs, the father of Isaac and the founder of the Hebrew people (Genesis 11–25)
- abroach — (of a cask, barrel, etc) tapped; broached
- absinth — Alternate form of absinthe.
- abthane — a territorial possession of the early Scottish church
- acaleph — any of the coelenterates of the former taxonomic group Acalephae, which included the jellyfishes
- acantha — a pointed, projecting structure, such as a thorn or prickle
- acanthi — Irregular plural form of acanthus.
- achaean — a member of a principal Greek tribe in the Mycenaean era
- acharné — furiously violent
- acharya — a prominent religious teacher and spiritual guide
- achates — Aeneas' faithful companion in Virgil's Aeneid
- achenes — Plural form of achene.
- acheron — one of the rivers in Hades over which the souls of the dead were ferried by Charon
- acheson — Dean (Gooderham). 1893–1971, US lawyer and statesman: secretary of state (1949–53) under President Truman
- achiest — Superlative form of achy.
- achieve — If you achieve a particular aim or effect, you succeed in doing it or causing it to happen, usually after a lot of effort.
- achinsk — a city in the S central Russian Federation in Asia.
- achiote — annatto.
- achiral — able to be superimposed on its mirror image
- acholia — a condition involving partial or complete lack of bile secretion
- acholic — lack of a secretion of bile.
- acolyth — an acolyte or follower
- acouchi — any of several South American rodents of the genus Myoprocta, closely related to the agoutis but much smaller, with a white-tipped tail: family Dasyproctidae
- acushla — darling: a term of endearment
- adharma — unrighteousness or wickedness
- adhered — to stay attached; stick fast; cleave; cling (usually followed by to): The mud adhered to his shoes.
- adherer — a person who adheres to practices or beliefs
- adheres — Stick fast to (a surface or substance).
- adhibit — to administer or apply
- adichie — Chimamanda Ngozi, born 1977, Nigerian novelist; her novels include Purple Hibiscus (2003) and Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), which won the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction
- aechmea — any of various epiphytic bromeliads of the genus Aechmea, native to tropical America, having stiff, spiny leaves and clusters of red, yellow, or blue flowers: popular as a houseplant.
- affiche — a poster or advertisement, esp one drawn by an artist, as for the opening of an exhibition
- afghani — the standard monetary unit of Afghanistan, divided into 100 puli
- afghans — Plural form of afghan.
- agathon — c450–c400 b.c, Greek poet and dramatist.
- aggadah — a homiletic passage of the Talmud
- agnatha — the class of vertebrates comprising the lampreys, hagfishes, and several extinct forms, having no jaws or paired appendages.
- agoroth — agorot
- agrapha — sayings of Jesus not recorded in the canonical Gospels
- agreeth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of agree.
- agulhas — Capesouthernmost point of Africa, in Western Cape province, South Africa
- ahaziah — a son of Ahab and his successor as king of Israel, reigned 853?–852? b.c. I Kings 22:40.
- aheight — at a significant height
- ahiezer — a Danite who assisted Moses with the census and was head of the tribe of Dan in the wilderness. Num. 1:12; 2:35; 10:25.
- ahimaaz — a priest who supported David during the revolt of Absalom. II Sam. 18:19–32.