8-letter words containing a, l, o, h, n
- hortulan — (obsolete) Belonging to a garden.
- hotelman — hotelkeeper.
- hov lane — a highway or street lane for high-occupancy vehicles, usually marked with large diamond shapes on the pavement.
- hyalogen — any of several insoluble substances found in many animal structures such as cartilage which yield sugars on hydrolysis structures
- iolanthe — an operetta (1882) by Sir William S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan.
- john law — Andrew Bonar [bon-er] /ˈbɒn ər/ (Show IPA), 1858–1923, English statesman, born in Canada: prime minister 1922–23.
- lahontan — Lake, an Ice Age lake in W Nevada and NE California, about 8600 sq. mi. (22,000 sq. km): remnants include Carson Sink, Pyramid Lake.
- lanthorn — lantern.
- latch on — a device for holding a door, gate, or the like, closed, consisting basically of a bar falling or sliding into a catch, groove, hole, etc.
- laughton — Charles, 1899–1962, U.S. actor, born in England.
- lichanos — (in Greek music) a note played using the forefinger
- lionhead — a small breed of rabbit with long fur around the face
- loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
- lochearn — a city in N Maryland, near Baltimore.
- longhair — Sometimes Disparaging. an intellectual.
- longhand — writing of the ordinary kind, in which words are written out in full (distinguished from shorthand).
- longhead — a dolichocephalic person.
- lothians — a region in E Scotland. 700 sq. mi. (1813 sq. km).
- manholes — Plural form of manhole.
- mansholt — Sicco Leendert (ˈsɪko ˈleːndərt). 1908–95, Dutch economist and politician; vice president (1958–72) and president (1972–73) of the European Economic Community Commission. He was the author of the Mansholt Plan for the agricultural organization of the European Economic Community
- methanol — methyl alcohol.
- monachal — of or relating to monks or their life; monastic.
- naphthol — either of two isomeric hydroxyl derivatives, C 1 0 H 7 OH, of naphthalene (alpha-naphthol or 1-naphthol and beta-naphthol or 2-naphthol) white or yellowish crystals, with a phenolic odor, that darken on exposure to light: used chiefly in dyes, drugs, perfumes, and insecticides.
- nicholas — (Thomas Parentucelli) 1397?–1455, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1447–55.
- not half — Half is sometimes used in negative statements, with a positive meaning, to emphasize a particular fact or quality. For example, if you say 'he isn't half lucky', you mean that he is very lucky.
- old hand — a person who is experienced in or familiar with a subject, area, procedure, etc.: The guide you just hired is an old hand at leading safaris.
- oliphant — Margaret Wilson, 1828–97, Scottish novelist.
- oolachan — eulachon.
- randolph — A(sa) Philip, 1889–1979, U.S. labor leader: president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1925–68.
- shalloon — a light, twilled woolen fabric used chiefly for linings.
- shoaling — any large number of persons or things.
- townhall — a hall or building belonging to a town, used for the transaction of the town's business and often also as a place of public assembly.
- unhallow — to desecrate; profane.
- waldhorn — an organ reed stop