8-letter words containing h, a, n, o
- not that — which is not to say or suppose that
- now that — at the present time or moment: You are now using a dictionary.
- oanshagh — a foolish girl or woman
- off hand — If you do not know something off hand, you do not know it without having to ask someone else or look it up in a book.
- 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.
- omadhaun — a foolish man or boy
- omniarch — A ruler of the world.
- 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.
- on faith — through trust; without proof or evidence
- on watch — If someone is on watch, they have the job of carefully looking and listening, often while other people are asleep and often as a military duty, so that they can warn them of danger or an attack.
- oolachan — eulachon.
- ophidian — belonging or pertaining to the suborder Ophidia (Serpentes), comprising the snakes.
- orangish — resembling or suggesting an orange, as in taste, appearance, or color: decorated with orangy-pink flowers.
- orchanet — Alternative form of alkanet.
- orphaned — a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent.
- outthank — to outdo in thanking
- 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.
- pachinko — a Japanese pinball game played on a vertical machine in which slots struck by the player's ball release other balls that in turn are exchanged for noncash prizes.
- pancheon — a wide, shallow bowl, originally used for making bread or separating cream
- pansophy — universal wisdom or knowledge.
- pantheon — a national monument in Paris, France, used as a sepulcher for eminent French persons, begun in 1764 by Soufflot as the church of Ste. Geneviève and secularized in 1885.
- parochin — a parish
- pathogen — any disease-producing agent, especially a virus, bacterium, or other microorganism.
- pawnshop — the shop of a pawnbroker, especially one where unredeemed items are displayed and sold.
- payphone — a public telephone requiring that the caller deposit coins or use a credit card to pay for a call.
- phaethon — a son of Helios who borrowed the chariot of the sun and drove it so close to earth that Zeus struck him down to save the world.
- phonecam — a digital camera incorporated in a mobile phone
- photinia — any of various trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Photinia, of the rose family, having clusters of small white flowers and red, berrylike fruit.
- poaching — the illegal practice of trespassing on another's property to hunt or steal game without the landowner's permission.
- powhatan — a member of any of the Indian tribes belonging to the Powhatan Confederacy.
- quanzhou — a seaport in SE Fujian province, in SE China, on Taiwan Strait.
- ranchero — a rancher.
- randolph — A(sa) Philip, 1889–1979, U.S. labor leader: president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1925–68.
- rathbone — Basil, 1892–1967, English actor, born in South Africa.
- rhamnose — deoxymannose; a deoxy hexose sugar, C 6 H 1 2 O 5 , that is an important component of the polysaccharides of plant cell walls.
- rhiannon — the wife of Pwyll who, accused of having eaten her son, was forced as a penance to carry people on her back until vindicated by her son's return.
- rhodanic — of or relating to thiocyanic acid
- roaching — Nautical. the upward curve at the foot of a square sail. (loosely) a convexity given to any of the edges of a sail; round.
- romansch — a group of Rhaetian dialects spoken in the Swiss canton of Graubünden; an official language of Switzerland since 1938
- rondache — a small, round shield
- sandshoe — a light tennis shoe; sneaker.
- seahound — a dogfish
- shagroon — a nineteenth-century Australian settler in Canterbury
- shalloon — a light, twilled woolen fabric used chiefly for linings.
- shame on — shame should be felt by; this is shameful of
- shamokin — a borough in E Pennsylvania.
- shandong — a maritime province in E China. 59,189 sq. mi. (153,299 sq. km). Capital: Jinan.
- shaoxing — a city in NE Zhejiang province, in E China.