8-letter words containing m, a, h
- exhumate — (obsolete) To exhume; to disinter.
- falmouth — a seaport in S Cornwall, in SW England.
- famished — extremely hungry: to be famished after a hike; famished, homeless multitudes.
- famishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of famish.
- farmhand — a person who works on a farm, especially a hired worker; hired hand.
- fathomed — a unit of length equal to six feet (1.8 meters): used chiefly in nautical measurements. Abbreviation: fath.
- fishmeal — dried fish ground for use as fertilizer, animal feed, or an ingredient in other foods.
- flashmob — Alternative spelling of flash mob.
- freshman — a student in the first year of the course at a university, college, or high school.
- galumphs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of galumph.
- gamashes — High boots or buskins.
- gomashta — (India,now,historical) A native Indian clerk or steward.
- gomorrah — Also, Douay Bible, Gomorrha. an ancient city destroyed, with Sodom, because of its wickedness. Gen. 19:24, 25.
- goombahs — Plural form of goombah.
- grantham — a town in E England, in Lincolnshire: birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton and Margaret Thatcher. Pop: 34 592 (2001)
- grapheme — a minimal unit of a writing system.
- graphium — a writing stylus
- gymkhana — a field day held for equestrians, consisting of exhibitions of horsemanship and much pageantry.
- habermas — Jürgen (ˈjyrɡən). born 1929, German social theorist: his chief works are Theory and Practice (1963) and Knowledge and Human Interests (1968)
- hadamard — Jacques Salomon [zhahk sa-law-mawn] /ʒɑk sa lɔˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1865–1963, French mathematician.
- haematic — relating to, acting on, having the colour of, or containing blood
- haematin — Alternative spelling of hematin.
- haemato- — indicating blood
- haeremai — a Māori expression of welcome
- hairworm — any small, slender worm of the family Trichostrongylidae, parasitic in the alimentary canals of various animals.
- half-mad — mentally disturbed; deranged; insane; demented.
- halfmoon — the moon when, at either quadrature, half its disk is illuminated.
- halftime — the period indicating completion of half the time allowed for an activity, as for a football or basketball game or an examination.
- halidome — a holy place, as a church or sanctuary.
- hallmark — an official mark or stamp indicating a standard of purity, used in marking gold and silver articles assayed by the Goldsmiths' Company of London; plate mark.
- halloumi — a salty cheese originating in Cyprus and made from sheep’s or goat’s milk: often grilled or fried because it melts very slowly.
- halmstad — a seaport in SW Sweden.
- haloform — A compound derived from methane by substituting three hydrogen atoms for halogen atoms, e.g., chloroform.
- halutzim — a person who immigrates to Israel to establish or join a settlement for accomplishing tasks, as clearing the land or planting trees, that are necessary to future development of the country.
- hamartia — tragic flaw.
- hame tug — a loop or short leather strap attaching a trace to a hame.
- hamerkop — Alternative spelling of hammerkop.
- hamewith — in a homewards manner
- hamilton — William Hamilton
- hamlisch — Marvin. 1944–2012, US composer, best known for the musical A Chorus Line (1975)
- hammered — shaped, formed, or ornamented by a metalworker's hammer: a hammered bowl of brass; hammered gold.
- hammerer — One who hammers.
- hammocks — Plural form of hammock.
- hampered — Hinder or impede the movement or progress of.
- hampster — Alternative form of hamster.
- hamsters — Plural form of hamster.
- hamulate — Furnished with a small hook; hook-shaped.
- handlamp — A small lamp carried in the hand.
- handloom — a loom operated manually, in contrast to a power loom.
- handmade — made by hand, rather than by machine: the luxury of handmade shoes.