8-letter words containing n, s, h
- pinscher — one of a group of related dogs including the Doberman pinscher, miniature pinscher, and affenpinscher.
- plainish — rather ordinary-looking
- plashing — a gentle splash.
- prankish — of the nature of a prank: a prankish plan.
- psyching — psych1 .
- punisher — to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault: to punish a criminal.
- pushdown — a list in which the last item added is at the top
- quashing — Present participle of quash.
- quenches — to slake, satisfy, or allay (thirst, desires, passion, etc.).
- rainwash — material eroded or swept away by rain.
- rashness — acting or tending to act too hastily or without due consideration.
- redshank — an Old World sandpiper, Tringa totanus, having red legs and feet.
- refinish — to give a new surface to (wood, furniture, etc.).
- rhamnose — deoxymannose; a deoxy hexose sugar, C 6 H 1 2 O 5 , that is an important component of the polysaccharides of plant cell walls.
- rhinitis — inflammation of the nose or its mucous membrane.
- rhonchus — a wheezing or snoring sound heard upon auscultation of the chest, caused by an accumulation of mucus or other material.
- richness — having wealth or great possessions; abundantly supplied with resources, means, or funds; wealthy: a rich man; a rich nation.
- 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.
- rinkhals — ringhals.
- romansch — a group of Rhaetian dialects spoken in the Swiss canton of Graubünden; an official language of Switzerland since 1938
- roundish — somewhat round: a roundish man; roundish furniture.
- saganash — (among the Algonquian Indians) a European
- sage hen — the sage grouse, especially the female.
- sahaptin — a member of an American Indian people of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.
- saharian — a desert in N Africa, extending from the Atlantic to the Nile valley. About 3,500,000 sq. mi. (9,065,000 sq. km).
- saintish — resembling a saint
- sakhalin — an island of the Russian Federation in the Sea of Okhotsk, N of Japan: formerly (1905-45) divided between the Soviet Union and Japan. 29,100 sq. mi. (75,369 sq. km).
- salishan — a family of American Indian languages including Coeur d'Alêne, Kalispel, and other languages of British Columbia and the northwestern U.S.
- samantha — a female given name: from an Aramaic word meaning “listener.”.
- 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
- sarpanch — the head of a panchayat
- 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.
- say when — to state when an action is to be stopped or begun, as when someone is pouring a drink
- scathing — bitterly severe, as a remark: a scathing review of the play.
- schantze — a pile of stones heaped to shelter soldiers from gunfire
- scheming — given to making plans, especially sly and underhand ones; crafty.
- schizont — (in the asexual reproduction of certain sporozoans) a cell developed from a trophozoite, which undergoes multiple fission to form merozoites.
- 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.
- schooner — Nautical. any of various types of sailing vessel having a foremast and mainmast, with or without other masts, and having fore-and-aft sails on all lower masts. See also ketch, topsail schooner, yawl1 (def 2).
- schumann — Clara (Clara Wieck) 1819–96, German pianist and composer (wife of Robert Schumann).
- schwaben — German name of Swabia.
- schwerin — a state in NE Germany. 8842 sq. mi. (22,900 sq. km). Capital: Schwerin.
- scrunchy — an elastic band covered with gathered fabric, used to fasten the hair, as in a ponytail.
- scythian — pertaining to Scythia, its people, or their language.