8-letter words containing h, i, n
- ludhiana — a city in central Punjab, in N India.
- lunching — a light midday meal between breakfast and dinner; luncheon.
- lungfish — any of various slender, air-breathing fishes of the order (or subclass) Dipnoi, of rivers and lakes in Africa, South America, and Australia, having a lunglike air bladder as well as gills and growing to a length of 3 to 6 feet (0.9 to 1.8 meters).
- lurching — Archaic. the act of lurking or state of watchfulness.
- lynching — to put to death, especially by hanging, by mob action and without legal authority.
- lynchpin — a pin inserted through the end of an axletree to keep the wheel on.
- machinal — Of, or pertaining to machines.
- machined — Simple past tense and past participle of machine.
- machiner — One who operates a machine.
- machines — Plural form of machine.
- mahanadi — a river in central India, flowing N and E to the Bay of Bengal. 550 miles (885 km) long.
- maharani — (formerly) the wife of a maharajah.
- mahonias — Plural form of mahonia.
- malihini — a newcomer to Hawaii.
- manchild — a male child; boy; son.
- manichee — Also, Manichee [man-i-kee] /ˈmæn ɪˌki/ (Show IPA). an adherent of the dualistic religious system of Manes, a combination of Gnostic Christianity, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, and various other elements, with a basic doctrine of a conflict between light and dark, matter being regarded as dark and evil.
- mannheim — Karl [kahrl;; German kahrl] /kɑrl;; German kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1893–1947, German sociologist.
- manshift — the work accomplished by one person in one shift
- manuhiri — a visitor to a Māori marae
- marching — to touch at the border; border.
- mashings — Plural form of mashing.
- matachin — a 16th century dance performed by extravagantly dressed masked dancers carrying swords
- matching — a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.
- mcintosh — a variety of red apple that ripens in early autumn.
- mechanic — a person who repairs and maintains machinery, motors, etc.: an automobile mechanic.
- memphian — a native or inhabitant of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis.
- methinks — It seems to me.
- michelin — André (ɑ̃dre). 1853–1931, French industrialist; founder, with his brother Édouard Michelin (1859–1940), of the Michelin Tyre Company (1888): the first to use demountable pneumatic tyres on motor vehicles
- michener — (Daniel) Roland, 1900–91, Canadian public official and diplomat: governor general 1967–74.
- michigan — a state in the N central United States. 58,216 sq. mi. (150,780 sq. km). Capital: Lansing. Abbreviation: MI (for use with zip code), Mich.
- midhinge — (statistics) A measure of location of a batch or sample equal to the average of the first and third quartiles. Equivalently, it is the 25% trimmed mid-range;.
- midmonth — the middle of the month
- midnight — the middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.
- mightn't — Mightn't is a spoken form of 'might not'.
- minarchy — (countable) Government with the least necessary power over its citizens.
- minidish — A minidish is a small satellite dish that can receive signals from communications satellites for media such as television programmes and the Internet.
- minshuku — a guesthouse
- mishnaic — the collection of oral laws compiled about a.d. 200 by Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi and forming the basic part of the Talmud.
- misthink — to think incorrectly or unfavorably.
- mitching — Present participle of mitch.
- monkfish — angler (def 3).
- monolith — an obelisk, column, large statue, etc., formed of a single block of stone.
- monteith — a large punch bowl, usually of silver, having a notched rim for suspending punch cups.
- mooching — Present participle of mooch.
- moonfish — Also called horsefish, horsehead. any of several silvery marine fishes of the genus Selene, having a very compressed body and inhabiting shallow coastal waters.
- moonship — a lunar module
- morbihan — a department in W France. 2738 sq. mi. (7090 sq. km). Capital: Vannes.
- 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.
- 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).
- mouching — to borrow (a small item or amount) without intending to return or repay it.