8-letter words containing h, e, r, o
- menorahs — Plural form of menorah.
- merodach — Marduk.
- meshwork — meshed material or a structure of meshes; a network.
- metaphor — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- meyerhof — Otto [ot-oh;; German awt-oh] /ˈɒt oʊ;; German ˈɔt oʊ/ (Show IPA), 1884–1951, German physiologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1922.
- moochers — Plural form of moocher.
- moorhead — a city in W Minnesota.
- morpheme — any of the minimal grammatical units of a language, each constituting a word or meaningful part of a word, that cannot be divided into smaller independent grammatical parts, as the, write, or the -ed of waited. Compare allomorph (def 2), morph (def 1).
- morpheus — Classical Mythology. a son of Hypnos and the god of dreams.
- morphine — a white, bitter, crystalline alkaloid, C 1 7 H 1 9 NO 3 ⋅H 2 O, the most important narcotic and addictive principle of opium, obtained by extraction and crystallization and used chiefly in medicine as a pain reliever and sedative.
- mothered — Simple past tense and past participle of mother.
- motherer — Agent noun of mother: one who mothers.
- motherly — pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a mother; maternal: motherly solicitude.
- mouthier — Comparative form of mouthy.
- neighbor — a person who lives near another.
- neomorph — (genetics) a gain of function mutation that causes novel gene function.
- nephroid — kidney-shaped
- nephrons — Plural form of nephron.
- nichrome — An alloy of nickel with chromium (10 to 20 percent) and sometimes iron (up to 25 percent), used chiefly in high-temperature applications such as electrical heating elements.
- no other — nothing else
- no-hoper — a useless person from whom nothing can be expected.
- non-hero — antihero.
- northern — lying toward or situated in the north.
- northers — Plural form of norther.
- nosherei — food for snacking or noshing.
- nowheres — in or at no place; not anywhere: The missing pen was nowhere to be found.
- o. henry — Cole, 1893–1964, U.S. composer.
- ocherous — any of a class of natural earths, mixtures of hydrated oxide of iron with various earthy materials, ranging in color from pale yellow to orange and red, and used as pigments.
- ochidore — a crab, variously the shore crab (Carcinus Maenas), spider crab (esp of the family Maioidea), or swimming crab (esp of the family Portunidae)
- ochreous — ocher.
- offereth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of offer.
- offshore — off or away from the shore: They pushed the boat offshore.
- ohmmeter — an instrument for measuring electric resistance in ohms.
- 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.
- onrushes — Plural form of onrush.
- oosphere — an unfertilized egg within an oogonium.
- or other — You use or other in expressions like somehow or other and someone or other to indicate that you cannot or do not want to be more precise about the information that you are giving.
- orchanet — Alternative form of alkanet.
- orchesis — the art of dance
- orchises — Plural form of orchis.
- oreshoot — a rich concentration in an orebody.
- ornithes — birds considered collectively
- orphaned — a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent.
- orthoepy — the study of correct pronunciation.
- orthoses — Plural form of orthosis.
- othering — (chiefly philosophy) The process of perceiving or portraying someone or something as fundamentally different or alien.
- otherize — other (def 13).
- otorrhea — a mucopurulent discharge from the ear.
- outhomer — to score more home runs than
- outreach — to reach beyond; exceed: The demand has outreached our supply.