8-letter words containing g, o, h
- mahogany — any of several tropical American trees of the genus Swietenia, especially S. mahagoni and S. macrophylla, yielding hard, reddish-brown wood used for making furniture.
- manchego — a Spanish cheese made from ewes' milk
- monaghan — a county in the NE Republic of Ireland. 498 sq. mi. (1290 sq. km). County seat: Monaghan.
- mooching — Present participle of mooch.
- morphing — Linguistics. a sequence of phonemes constituting a minimal unit of grammar or syntax, and, as such, a representation, member, or contextual variant of a morpheme in a specific environment. Compare allomorph (def 2).
- moss hag — an area, pit, or hole from which peat has been dug.
- mouching — to borrow (a small item or amount) without intending to return or repay it.
- mouthing — the action of speaking in a meaningless, bombastic, or hypocritical manner.
- mug shot — Also called headshot. an identifying photograph of a suspect or criminal, often one of a set showing a frontal view, a profile view, and a view of the back of the head.
- mugshots — Plural form of mugshot.
- musk hog — the collared peccary. See under peccary.
- myograph — an instrument for recording the contractions and relaxations of muscles.
- nanchong — a city in E central Sichuan province, in central China.
- neighbor — a person who lives near another.
- nightowl — a person who often stays up late at night; nighthawk.
- northing — northward movement or deviation.
- notching — an angular or V -shaped cut, indentation, or slit in an object, surface, or edge.
- nothings — Plural form of nothing.
- oanshagh — a foolish girl or woman
- ockeghem — Johannes [yoh-hah-nuh s] /yoʊˈhɑ nəs/ (Show IPA), Okeghem, Jean d'.
- odograph — a recording odometer.
- ogeechee — a river in E Georgia, flowing SE to the Atlantic Ocean. 250 miles (402 km) long.
- oghamist — Alternative capitalization of Oghamist.
- oiltight — constructed to be impervious to oil: an oiltight bulkhead.
- oligarch — one of the rulers in an oligarchy.
- omophagy — The eating of raw food, especially raw meat.
- on sight — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- orangish — resembling or suggesting an orange, as in taste, appearance, or color: decorated with orangy-pink flowers.
- othering — (chiefly philosophy) The process of perceiving or portraying someone or something as fundamentally different or alien.
- oughtn't — ought not, ought not to
- outfight — To fight or battle better than.
- outlaugh — (transitive) To ridicule or laugh someone out of a purpose, principle, etc.; laugh down; discourage or put out of countenance by laughing.
- outnight — to mention nights more often than
- outright — complete or total: an outright loss.
- outsight — the ability to see and understand external things clearly.
- outtough — to get the better of (a competitor) by showing more determination.
- outweigh — to exceed in value, importance, influence, etc.: The advantages of the plan outweighed its defects.
- overhang — to hang or be suspended over: A great chandelier overhung the ballroom.
- overhigh — too high
- overhung — simple past tense and past participle of overhang.
- pagehood — the office of, or state of being, a page
- pathogen — any disease-producing agent, especially a virus, bacterium, or other microorganism.
- phlegmon — a swollen, red, and painful mass affecting bodily tissue that may progress to abscess
- phosgene — a poisonous, colorless, very volatile liquid or suffocating gas, COCl 2 , a chemical-warfare compound: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- photogen — a light oil obtained by the distillation of bituminous shale, coal, or peat: once commercially produced chiefly as an illuminant and as a solvent.
- pishogue — sorcery; witchcraft; black magic.
- plughole — drainage hole in sink or bath
- poaching — the illegal practice of trespassing on another's property to hunt or steal game without the landowner's permission.
- polglish — informal Polish containing a high proportion of words of English origin
- polygoth — (language) A distributed language integrating classes with a parallel block structure, including multiprocedures and fragments.