8-letter words containing a, e, r, o, h
- hoaxster — Alternative form of hoaxer (rare).
- homecare — The care and maintenance of one's home.
- homeward — Also, homewards. toward home.
- homeware — crockery, furniture, and furnishings with which a house, room, etc, is furnished
- hoorayed — Simple past tense and past participle of hooray.
- hordeola — sty2 .
- hornbeak — a dialect name for a fish known as the garfish, hornfish or sea needle
- hornbeam — any North American shrub or tree belonging to the genus Carpinus, of the birch family, yielding a hard, heavy wood, as C. caroliniana (American hornbeam)
- horsecar — a streetcar drawn by a horse or horses.
- horseman — a person who is skilled in riding a horse.
- horseway — a bridleway
- hot tear — a crack formed in hot metal during cooling, caused by an improper pouring temperature or undue restraint.
- hovercar — A fictional motor car that hovers a short distance above the ground.
- huaquero — the Spanish name for a tomb or grave robber
- jobshare — an arrangement in which two or more people divide the duties and payment for one position between them, working at different times
- larouche — Lyndon H., Jr. born 1922, U.S. economist and politician.
- loathers — Plural form of loather.
- lochearn — a city in N Maryland, near Baltimore.
- manwhore — (slang) A man who sells his body for money; a male prostitute.
- menorahs — Plural form of menorah.
- merodach — Marduk.
- metaphor — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- moorhead — a city in W Minnesota.
- on earth — (often initial capital letter) the planet third in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,755 km) and a polar diameter of 7900 miles (12,714 km), a mean distance from the sun of 92.9 million miles (149.6 million km), and a period of revolution of 365.26 days, and having one satellite.
- orchanet — Alternative form of alkanet.
- orphaned — a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent.
- otorrhea — a mucopurulent discharge from the ear.
- outreach — to reach beyond; exceed: The demand has outreached our supply.
- overarch — to span with or like an arch: A new bridge overarches the river.
- overhair — the outer coat of an animal
- overhand — thrown or performed with the hand raised over the shoulder; overarm: overhand stroke.
- overhang — to hang or be suspended over: A great chandelier overhung the ballroom.
- overhard — too hard
- overhate — to hate too much
- overhaul — to make necessary repairs on; restore to serviceable condition: My car was overhauled by an expert mechanic.
- overhead — over one's head; aloft; up in the air or sky, especially near the zenith: There was a cloud overhead.
- overheap — to supply too much
- overhear — to hear (speech or a speaker) without the speaker's intention or knowledge: I accidentally overheard what they were saying.
- overheat — to heat to excess.
- overrash — too rash
- overwash — the act of washing over something
- plethora — overabundance; excess: a plethora of advice and a paucity of assistance.
- prophage — a stable, inherited form of bacteriophage in which the genetic material of the virus is integrated into, replicated, and expressed with the genetic material of the bacterial host.
- prophase — Cell Biology. the first stage of mitosis or meiosis in eukaryotic cell division, during which the nuclear envelope breaks down and strands of chromatin form into chromosomes.
- pyorrhea — Pathology. a discharge of pus.
- ranchero — a rancher.
- rat-hole — a hole made by a rat, as into a room, barn, etc.: The first chore in the old building is to plug up the ratholes.
- rathbone — Basil, 1892–1967, English actor, born in South Africa.
- rathouse — a psychiatric hospital or asylum
- reaphook — a sickle