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8-letter words containing h

  • achenium — (botany) achene.
  • achernar — the brightest star in the constellation Eridanus, visible only in the S hemisphere. Visual magnitude: 0.5; spectral type: B3V; distance: 144 light years
  • achieved — Reach or attain (a desired objective, level, or result) by effort, skill, or courage.
  • achiever — A high achiever is someone who is successful in their studies or their work, usually as a result of their efforts. A low achiever is someone who achieves less than those around them.
  • achieves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of achieve.
  • achilary — having no labellum or lip, or one that is undeveloped, as in the flower of certain orchids.
  • achillea — any plant of the N temperate genus Achillea, with white, yellow, or purple flowers, some species of which are widely grown as garden plants: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • achilles — Greek hero, the son of Peleus and the sea goddess Thetis: in the Iliad the foremost of the Greek warriors at the siege of Troy. While he was a baby his mother plunged him into the river Styx making his body invulnerable except for the heel by which she held him. After slaying Hector, he was killed by Paris who wounded him in the heel
  • achimaas — Ahimaaz.
  • achinese — Atjehnese.
  • achiness — a constant, dull pain
  • achingly — You can use achingly for emphasis when you are referring to things that create feelings of wanting something very much, but of not being able to have it.
  • achroite — the colorless or white variety of tourmaline, often used as a gem.
  • achromat — a lens designed to bring light of two chosen wavelengths to the same focal point, thus reducing chromatic aberration
  • achromia — (medicine) Absence of pigmentation, especially in the skin or blood.
  • achromic — colourless
  • achronic — Timeless.
  • achroous — Colorless; achromatic.
  • acidhead — a person who uses LSD
  • acquight — to acquit
  • acrolith — (esp in ancient Greek sculpture) a wooden, often draped figure with only the head, hands, and feet in stone
  • actorish — of, relating to, or characteristic of an actor
  • adherend — a material attached using adhesive
  • adherent — An adherent is someone who holds a particular belief or supports a particular person or group.
  • adherers — Plural form of adherer.
  • adhering — to stay attached; stick fast; cleave; cling (usually followed by to): The mud adhered to his shoes.
  • adhesion — Adhesion is the ability of one thing to stick firmly to another.
  • adhesive — An adhesive is a substance such as glue, which is used to make things stick firmly together.
  • admonish — If you admonish someone, you tell them very seriously that they have done something wrong.
  • adonijah — a son of David, put to death at the order of Solomon. II Sam. 3:4; I Kings 2:19–25.
  • aerolith — a meteorite consisting mainly of stony matter.
  • aesthete — An aesthete is someone who loves and appreciates works of art and beautiful things.
  • aetheric — ether (defs 3–5).
  • affright — to frighten
  • afghanis — Plural form of afghani.
  • aga khan — the hereditary title of the head of the Ismaili sect of Muslims
  • agalloch — the fragrant, resinous wood of an East Indian tree, Aquilaria agallocha, of the mezereum family, used as incense in Asia.
  • agathism — The doctrine that the ultimate end of all things is good, although the intermediate means may be evil.
  • agathist — A person who believes in agathism.
  • agnathan — any jawless eel-like aquatic vertebrate of the superclass Agnatha, which includes the lampreys and hagfishes
  • agraphia — loss of the ability to write, resulting from a brain lesion
  • agraphic — having or relating to agraphia
  • agraphon — saying of Jesus not in Gospels
  • aguishly — in an aguish manner
  • ahankara — the false identification of the purusha, or true inner self, with the body, the mind, or the outside world.
  • ahead of — If someone is ahead of you, they are directly in front of you. If someone is moving ahead of you, they are in front of you and moving in the same direction.
  • ahemeral — not constituting a full 24-hour day
  • ahmadiya — a modern sect, divided into an older group (Qadianis) and a newer group (Lahore party)
  • ahmose i — 1580–1557 b.c, founder of the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt.
  • ahuzzath — a friend of Abimelech with whom he journeyed from Gerar to make a covenant with Isaac in Beersheba. Gen. 26:26–31.
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