8-letter words containing ash
- mishmash — a confused mess; hodgepodge; jumble.
- musquash — Chiefly British. the fur of the muskrat.
- mut dash — a dash equal in length to one side of an em quad; em dash.
- nucflash — a report of highest precedence notifying the president, secretary of defense, or their deputies of an accidental or unauthorized nuclear-weapon launch or of a nuclear attack.
- nut dash — a dash equal in length to the width of an en quad; en dash.
- outflash — a brief, sudden burst of bright light: a flash of lightning.
- overrash — too rash
- overwash — the act of washing over something
- parashah — a portion of the Torah chanted or read each week in the synagogue on the Sabbath.
- pashadom — the office or territory of a pasha
- pashalik — the territory governed by a pasha.
- pashmina — a fabric or garment made from pashm, especially a shawl, wrap, or scarf.
- pearlash — commercial potassium carbonate.
- plashing — a gentle splash.
- precrash — of or pertaining to the period before a crash, esp of a motor vehicle; coming into effect or being deployed prior to a crash
- quasheba — (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba) Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba) Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba) Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba) Thursday (Quao and Abba) Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi) and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba)
- quashing — Present participle of quash.
- rainwash — material eroded or swept away by rain.
- rashness — acting or tending to act too hastily or without due consideration.
- rehashed — to work up (old material) in a new form.
- saganash — (among the Algonquian Indians) a European
- sash bar — muntin (def 1).
- sash saw — a small tenon saw used for cutting sashes
- sashayed — to glide, move, or proceed easily or nonchalantly: She just sashayed in as if she owned the place.
- sashless — lacking a window or wall sash
- seashell — the shell of any marine mollusk.
- seashore — land along the sea or ocean.
- shashlik — shish kebab.
- slapdash — in a hasty, haphazard manner: He assembled the motor slapdash.
- slashing — a sweeping stroke, as with a knife, sword, or pen.
- smash it — to execute a task exceptionally well
- smash up — destroy, break into pieces
- smash-up — the act or an instance of smashing or shattering.
- smashing — of, relating to, or constituting a great success: That composer has written many smash tunes.
- soda ash — sodium carbonate (def 1).
- splasher — a person or thing that splashes.
- squabash — to crush or demolish (an attack, argument, opponent, etc.)
- squashed — to press into a flat mass or pulp; crush: She squashed the flower under her heel.
- stramash — an uproar; disturbance.
- swashing — Printing. noting or pertaining to a character having a swash: a swash letter.
- tashkent — a republic in S central Asia. 172,741 sq. mi. (447,400 sq. km). Capital: Tashkent.
- tashlikh — a Jewish rite, performed on the afternoon usually of the first day of Rosh Hashanah, in which the participants symbolically cast off their sins by gathering along the banks of a river, stream, or the like and reciting prayers of repentance.
- tatahash — a stew containing potatoes and cheap cuts of meat
- the cash — a checkout counter
- the wash — a shallow inlet of the North Sea on the E coast of England, between Lincolnshire and Norfolk
- thrashed — to beat soundly in punishment; flog.
- thrasher — a person or thing that thrashes.
- trash-80 — Derogatory name for Tandy's TRS-80.
- trashing — anything worthless, useless, or discarded; rubbish.
- trashman — a person who collects trash for removal in a truck.