8-letter words containing h, e, n, t
- nathless — Alternative form of natheless.
- nautches — Plural form of nautch.
- nazareth — a town in N Israel: the childhood home of Jesus.
- neatherd — cowherd.
- neckshot — a shot in the neck of an animal
- neophyte — a beginner or novice: He's a neophyte at chess.
- nepenthe — a drug or drink, or the plant yielding it, mentioned by ancient writers as having the power to bring forgetfulness of sorrow or trouble.
- nephrite — Mineralogy. a compact or fibrous variety of actinolite, varying from whitish to dark green: a form of jade.
- nephtali — Naphtali.
- netphone — A telephone that connects through the internet.
- new math — a unified, sequential system of teaching arithmetic and mathematics in accord with set theory so as to reveal basic concepts: used in some U.S. schools, especially in the 1960s and 1970s.
- nighters — Plural form of nighter.
- nighties — Plural form of nightie.
- no other — nothing else
- none the — You use none the to say that someone or something does not have any more of a particular quality than they did before.
- nonwhite — a sociocultural classification of modern humans with darker pigmentation of the skin than is characteristic in people of European descent.
- northern — lying toward or situated in the north.
- northers — Plural form of norther.
- now then — used to preface an important remark, the next step in an argument, etc
- nu thena — A software vendor specialising in rapid prototyping tools for real-time hardware and software systems and collaborating with DAZIX.
- nuthouse — a mental hospital; insane asylum.
- nutshell — the shell of a nut.
- nymphets — a young nymph.
- 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.
- one-shot — a magazine, brochure, or the like that is published only one time, with no subsequent issues intended, usually containing articles and photographs devoted to one topical subject.
- onychite — a type of marble stone
- orchanet — Alternative form of alkanet.
- ornithes — birds considered collectively
- othering — (chiefly philosophy) The process of perceiving or portraying someone or something as fundamentally different or alien.
- othoniel — Othniel.
- outshine — to surpass in shining; shine more brightly than.
- outshone — to surpass in shining; shine more brightly than.
- overhent — to overtake
- overhunt — to hunt in an unsustainable manner
- overthin — too thin
- 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.
- panthera — a genus of chiefly large cats that includes the snow leopard, tiger, leopard, jaguar, and lion, most having the ability to roar.
- pathname — the sequence of symbols and names indicating the location of a particular file in a hierarchical file system.
- pathogen — any disease-producing agent, especially a virus, bacterium, or other microorganism.
- penchant — a strong inclination, taste, or liking for something: a penchant for outdoor sports.
- penlight — a flashlight similar in size and shape to a fountain pen.
- pentarch — a government by five persons.
- pentheus — the grandson of Cadmus and his successor as king of Thebes, who resisted the introduction of the cult of Dionysus. In revenge the god drove him mad and he was torn to pieces by a group of bacchantes, one of whom was his mother
- perianth — the envelope of a flower, whether calyx or corolla or both.
- 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.
- pheasant — any of numerous large, usually long-tailed, Old World gallinaceous birds of the family Phasianidae, widely introduced.
- phenetic — pertaining to or based on the observable similarities and differences between organisms without regard to assumed genealogy.
- phengite — a type of transparent selenite
- phonetic — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
- phoniest — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.