9-letter words containing s, h, a
- aldehydes — Plural form of aldehyde.
- aldershot — a town in S England, in Hampshire: site of a large military camp. Pop: 58 170 (2001)
- alehouses — Plural form of alehouse.
- alewashed — showing the effects of drinking beer
- ali pasha — known as the Lion of Janina. 1741–1822, Turkish pasha and ruler of Albania (1787–1820), who was deposed and assassinated after intriguing against Turkey
- allmouths — Plural form of allmouth.
- almohades — a member of a Muslim dynasty ruling in Spain and northern Africa during the 12th and 13th centuries.
- almshouse — Almshouses are houses in Britain which were built and run by charities to provide accommodation for poor or old people who could not afford to pay rent.
- alphabets — Plural form of alphabet.
- alphasort — to arrange in alphabetical order
- alphonsus — a crater in the SE quadrant of the moon, about 112 km in diameter, in which volcanic activity may have occurred
- althusser — Louis. 1918–90, French Marxist philosopher, author of For Marx (1965) and Reading Capital (1965): committed to a mental hospital (1981) after killing his wife
- amaranths — Plural form of amaranth.
- amberfish — amberjack.
- ambushing — an act or instance of lying concealed so as to attack by surprise: The highwaymen waited in ambush near the road.
- amethysts — Plural form of amethyst.
- amianthus — any of the fine silky varieties of asbestos
- amidships — Amidships means halfway along the length of a ship.
- amorphism — the state or quality of being amorphous.
- amorphous — Something that is amorphous has no clear shape or structure.
- amphioxus — cephalochordate
- amphipods — Plural form of amphipod.
- anacharis — a genus of water plant native to North America and commonly used in aquariums
- anaglyphs — Plural form of anaglyph.
- ananthous — (of higher plants) having no flowers
- anaphasic — relating to the third stage in cell division
- anaphoras — Plural form of anaphora.
- anarchies — Plural form of anarchy.
- anarchise — make anarchic
- anarchism — Anarchism is the belief that the laws and power of governments should be replaced by people working together freely.
- anarchist — An anarchist is a person who believes in anarchism.
- anathemas — Plural form of anathema.
- anchoress — a female anchorite
- anchovies — Plural form of anchovy.
- anchylose — ankylose
- angashore — a miserable person given to complaining
- angelfish — any of various small tropical marine percoid fishes of the genus Pomacanthus and related genera, which have a deep flattened brightly coloured body and brushlike teeth: family Chaetodontidae
- anguished — Anguished means showing or feeling great mental suffering or physical pain.
- anguishes — Plural form of anguish.
- anhydrase — an enzyme that catalyses the removal of water
- anhydrous — containing no water, esp no water of crystallization
- anna shaw — Anna Howard, 1847–1919, U.S. physician, reformer, and suffragist, born in England.
- anopheles — any of various mosquitoes constituting the genus Anopheles, some species of which transmit the malaria parasite to man
- anorakish — (British, informal) Obsessively absorbed in a subject, especially an unusual or obscure subject.
- anorchism — Anorchia.
- anschluss — a political or economic union, esp the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany (1938)
- answereth — Archaic third-person singular form of answer.
- antiochus — name of thirteen kings of the Seleucid dynasty of Syria
- antiphase — (physics, mathematics) A difference in phase (of two waves) of 180°.
- antiphons — Plural form of antiphon.