8-letter words containing s, h, a, d
- headshot — a photograph of someone's face, especially a promotional photograph of a model, actor, or author.
- headsman — a public executioner who beheads condemned persons.
- headsmen — Plural form of headsman.
- headstay — (on a sailing vessel) a stay leading forward from the head of the foremost mast to the stem head or the end of the bowsprit.
- helipads — Plural form of helipad.
- herdsman — a herder; the keeper of a herd, especially of cattle or sheep.
- herodias — the second wife of Herod Antipas and the mother of Salome: she told Salome to ask Herod for the head of John the Baptist.
- hexapods — Plural form of hexapod.
- hidalgos — Plural form of hidalgo.
- hindcast — to test (a mathematical model) by observing whether it would have correctly predicted a historical event
- hinsdale — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- hoarders — Plural form of hoarder.
- hogshead — a large cask, especially one containing from 63 to 140 gallons (238 to 530 liters).
- holdalls — Plural form of holdall.
- holdfast — something used to hold or secure a thing in place; a catch, hook, clamp, etc.
- holidays — Plural form of holiday.
- hollands — John Philip, 1840–1914, Irish inventor in the U.S.
- honduras — a republic in NE Central America. 43,277 sq. mi. (112,087 sq. km). Capital: Tegucigalpa.
- hopheads — (slang) Plural form of hophead.
- hospodar — a former title of governors or princes of Wallachia and Moldavia.
- hostaged — a person given or held as security for the fulfillment of certain conditions or terms, promises, etc., by another.
- hotheads — Plural form of hothead.
- husbands — Plural form of husband.
- hydatids — Plural form of hydatid.
- hydrants — Plural form of hydrant.
- hydrates — Plural form of hydrate.
- jadishly — In a jadish manner.
- jarheads — Plural form of jarhead.
- jihadism — a jihadi.
- jihadist — a jihadi.
- jim dash — a dash, often three ems long, used within a headline, between the headline and the main body of printed matter, between items in a single column, or between related but different material within a story.
- kedushah — a liturgical prayer of varying form that is incorporated into the third blessing of the Amidah during the repetition of this prayer by the cantor.
- l-shaped — having the shape of the letter L
- ladyfish — a game fish, Elops saurus, of warm seas, closely related to but smaller than the tarpon.
- ladyship — (often initial capital letter) the form used in speaking of or to a woman having the title of Lady (usually preceded by her or your).
- landshut — a city in SE Germany, in Bavaria: Trausnitz castle (13th century); manufacturing centre for machinery and chemicals. Pop: 60 282 (2003 est)
- landwash — the foreshore, especially that part between high and low tidemarks.
- lavished — expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion: lavish spending.
- lushhead — lush2 (def 1).
- madhouse — a hospital for the confinement and treatment of mentally disturbed persons.
- madrasah — a school or college, especially a school attached to a mosque where young men study theology.
- masthead — Also called flag. a statement printed in all issues of a newspaper, magazine, or the like, usually on the editorial page, giving the publication's name, the names of the owner and staff, etc.
- misheard — to hear incorrectly or imperfectly: to mishear a remark.
- mudbaths — Plural form of mudbath.
- mushhead — a stupid person.
- mut dash — a dash equal in length to one side of an em quad; em dash.
- nut dash — a dash equal in length to the width of an en quad; en dash.
- o-shaped — resembling the rounded form of the letter O
- orchards — Plural form of orchard.
- padishah — (often initial capital letter) great king; emperor (a title applied especially formerly to the shah of Iran, the sultan of Turkey, and to the British sovereign as emperor in India).