8-letter words containing a, h, o
- bothyman — a person who lives in a bothy
- bouchard — (Louis) Henri [lwee ahn-ree] /lwi ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1875–1960, French sculptor.
- bow hand — the hand that holds the bow in archery or in playing a violin, cello, etc.
- brachio- — indicating a brachium
- broached — Machinery. an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.
- broacher — Machinery. an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.
- broadish — fairly broad
- bronchia — the ramifications or branches of the bronchi.
- brougham — a four-wheeled horse-drawn closed carriage having a raised open driver's seat in front
- brouhaha — A brouhaha is an excited and critical fuss or reaction to something.
- bushgoat — a S African antelope
- caboched — (of an image of the head of a beast) having an exposed face but a concealed neck
- cabochon — a smooth domed gem, polished but unfaceted
- caboshed — (of an animal, as a deer) shown facing forward without a neck: a stag's head caboshed.
- cachalot — sperm whale
- cachepot — an ornamental container for a flowerpot
- cakehole — (slang) The mouth.
- calthrop — any of several plants having spiny heads or fruit, as those of the genera Tribulus and Kallstroemia, or the star thistle, Centaurea calcitrapa.
- camphone — a combined mobile phone and digital camera
- campshot — a facing of planks and piles placed along the bank of a river to prevent erosion.
- camwhore — a person who performs sexual or titillating acts in front of a webcam for the gratification of online customers who reward him or her with money or gifts
- canephor — a sculpted figure carrying a basket on his or her head
- canthook — a wooden pole with a blunt steel tip and an adjustable hook at one end, used for handling logs
- caroches — Plural form of caroche.
- carphone — a telephone that operates by cellular radio for use in a car
- cartouch — Alternative form of cartouche.
- caschrom — a wooden hand-plough used to till the ground in the northwest of Scotland
- cash cow — In business, a cash cow is a product or investment that steadily continues to be profitable.
- cash mob — a group of people coordinated to meet and spend money at a local, independent business at a particular time
- cash out — cash in1 (sense 1)
- cash-out — Also, cashout. a direct cash payment or a cash profit or remainder: The store owner lived on a cash-out of fifty dollars a day.
- cashbook — a book in which all receipts and payments of money are entered
- cashflow — Of or pertaining to a cash flow.
- castilho — Antonio Feliciano de [ahn-taw-n-yoo fuh-lees-yah-noo] /ɑ̃ˈtɔˈn yu fə lisˈyɑ nu/ (Show IPA), 1800–75, Portuguese poet.
- cataphor — a word that refers to or stands for another word used later
- catch on — If you catch on to something, you understand it, or realize that it is happening.
- catechol — a colourless crystalline phenol found in resins and lignins; 1,2-dihydroxybenzene. It is used as a photographic developer. Formula: C6H4(OH)2
- cathodal — (biochemistry) Attracted towards a cathode.
- cathodes — Plural form of cathode.
- cathodic — pertaining to a cathode or phenomena in its vicinity.
- catholic — The Catholic Church is the branch of the Christian Church that accepts the Pope as its leader and is based in the Vatican in Rome.
- cathouse — a house of prostitution
- cenotaph — A cenotaph is a structure that is built in honour of soldiers who died in a war.
- cephalo- — indicating the head
- cephalon — the head, especially of an arthropod.
- chaconne — a musical form consisting of a set of continuous variations upon a ground bass
- chad box — (hardware) (IBM called this a "chip box") A metal box about the size of a lunchbox (or in some models a large wastebasket), for collecting the chad that accumulated in Iron Age card punches. You had to open the covers of the card punch periodically and empty the chad box. The bit bucket was notionally the equivalent device in the CPU enclosure, which was typically across the room in another great grey-and-blue box.
- chadlock — Alternative form of charlock.
- chaebols — Plural form of chaebol.
- chaldron — a unit of capacity equal to 36 bushels. Formerly used in the US for the measurement of solids, being equivalent to 1.268 cubic metres. Used in Britain for both solids and liquids, it is equivalent to 1.309 cubic metres