8-letter words containing n, a, g, h, i
- hiragana — the cursive and more widely used of the two Japanese syllabaries.
- hoarding — a supply or accumulation that is hidden or carefully guarded for preservation, future use, etc.: a vast hoard of silver.
- hollaing — Present participle of holla.
- homaging — Present participle of homage.
- hooligan — a ruffian or hoodlum.
- huang ti — the legendary first emperor of China.
- huizinga — Johan, 1872–1945, Dutch historian.
- huzzaing — Present participle of huzza.
- ingather — to gather or bring in, as a harvest.
- inhaling — Present participle of inhale.
- jahangir — 1569–1627, 4th Mogul emperor in India 1605–27 (son of Akbar).
- jehangir — 1569–1627, 4th Mogul emperor in India 1605–27 (son of Akbar).
- ka-ching — expressing sth moneymaking
- languish — to be or become weak or feeble; droop; fade.
- lashings — a binding or fastening with a rope or the like.
- latching — a device for holding a door, gate, or the like, closed, consisting basically of a bar falling or sliding into a catch, groove, hole, etc.
- laughing — that laughs or is given to laughter: a laughing child.
- laughlin — James, IV, 1914–97, U.S. editor, publisher, and poet.
- leaching — to dissolve out soluble constituents from (ashes, soil, etc.) by percolation.
- lesghian — Lezghian.
- lezghian — a member of a people living mainly in the Dagestan Autonomous Republic in the Russian Federation.
- loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
- longhair — Sometimes Disparaging. an intellectual.
- marching — to touch at the border; border.
- mashings — Plural form of mashing.
- matching — a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.
- michigan — a state in the N central United States. 58,216 sq. mi. (150,780 sq. km). Capital: Lansing. Abbreviation: MI (for use with zip code), Mich.
- nanching — a port in and the capital of Jiangsu province, in E China, on the Chang Jiang: a former capital of China.
- narghile — a Middle Eastern tobacco pipe in which the smoke is drawn through water before reaching the lips; hookah.
- nargileh — Alternative form of narghile.
- nightcap — Informal. an alcoholic drink taken at bedtime or at the end of a festive evening.
- nightjar — a nocturnal European bird, Caprimulgus europaeus, of the family Caprimulgidae, having a short bill and a wide mouth and feeding on insects captured in the air.
- nuraghic — relating to the Bronze Age Sardinian civilization that is distinguished by nuraghe
- orangish — resembling or suggesting an orange, as in taste, appearance, or color: decorated with orangy-pink flowers.
- parching — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
- peaching — to inform against an accomplice or associate.
- pharming — the process of producing medically useful products from genetically modified plants and animals.
- phrasing — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- phrygian — of or relating to Phrygia, its people, or their language.
- plashing — a gentle splash.
- poaching — the illegal practice of trespassing on another's property to hunt or steal game without the landowner's permission.
- qing hai — a lake in W central China, in NE Qinghai province. 2300 sq. mi. (5950 sq. km).
- quashing — Present participle of quash.
- ranching — an establishment maintained for raising livestock under range conditions.
- rheingau — a small wine-growing region in Hesse, in central Germany, on the Rhine.
- 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.
- roaching — Nautical. the upward curve at the foot of a square sail. (loosely) a convexity given to any of the edges of a sail; round.
- scathing — bitterly severe, as a remark: a scathing review of the play.
- shadings — a slight variation or difference of color, character, etc.
- shafting — a long pole forming the body of various weapons, as lances, halberds, or arrows.