8-letter words containing e, y, h, o
- lekythos — an oil jar having an ellipsoidal body, narrow neck, flanged mouth, curved handle extending from below the lip to the shoulder, and a narrow base terminating in a foot: used chiefly for ointments.
- louchely — in an oblique or shifty manner
- methoxyl — containing the methoxy group.
- meyerhof — Otto [ot-oh;; German awt-oh] /ˈɒt oʊ;; German ˈɔt oʊ/ (Show IPA), 1884–1951, German physiologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1922.
- motherly — pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a mother; maternal: motherly solicitude.
- neohippy — A new age hippy.
- neophyte — a beginner or novice: He's a neophyte at chess.
- o. henry — Cole, 1893–1964, U.S. composer.
- onychite — a type of marble stone
- orthoepy — the study of correct pronunciation.
- overholy — too holy
- overhype — to promote excessively
- payphone — a public telephone requiring that the caller deposit coins or use a credit card to pay for a call.
- phyllode — an expanded petiole resembling and having the function of a leaf, but without a true blade.
- phyllome — a leaf of a plant.
- prophecy — the foretelling or prediction of what is to come.
- prophesy — to foretell or predict.
- pyorrhea — Pathology. a discharge of pus.
- rheology — the study of the deformation and flow of matter.
- rheopexy — the property exhibited by certain slow-gelling, thixotropic sols of gelling more rapidly when the containing vessel is shaken gently.
- rhyolite — a fine-grained igneous rock rich in silica: the volcanic equivalent of granite.
- rothesay — a town in the Strathclyde region, on Bute island, in SW Scotland: resort; ruins of 11th-century castle.
- sequoyah — 1770?–1843, Cherokee Indian scholar: inventor of a syllabary for writing Cherokee.
- shockley — William Bradford, 1910–1989, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1956.
- smothery — stifling; close: a smothery atmosphere.
- syphoned — a tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawing a liquid from one container into another on a lower level by placing the shorter leg into the container above and the longer leg into the one below, the liquid being forced up the shorter leg and into the longer one by the pressure of the atmosphere.
- the holy — a sacred place
- the only — being single or very few in number
- the poky — prison
- theodicy — a vindication of the divine attributes, particularly holiness and justice, in establishing or allowing the existence of physical and moral evil.
- theogony — the origin of the gods.
- theology — the field of study and analysis that treats of God and of God's attributes and relations to the universe; study of divine things or religious truth; divinity.
- theonomy — the state of an individual or society that regards its own nature and norms as being in accord with the divine nature.
- threnody — a poem, speech, or song of lamentation, especially for the dead; dirge; funeral song.
- trophesy — a condition caused by a disorder of the nerves relating to nutrition
- typhoeus — the son of Gaea and Tartarus who had a hundred dragon heads, which spurted fire, and a bellowing many-tongued voice. He created the whirlwinds and fought with Zeus before the god hurled him beneath Mount Etna
- unhomely — not homely
- weymouth — a town in E Massachusetts, S of Boston.
- whiteboy — (UK, US, slang, mildly, pejorative) A young Caucasian male.
- xenophya — parts of a shell or skeleton formed by foreign bodies
- yokelish — Like a rustic or bumpkin; simple and ignorant.
- yoohooed — Simple past tense and past participle of yoohoo.
- zoophyte — any of various invertebrate animals resembling a plant, as a coral or a sea anemone.