8-letter words containing h, i, n
- phonemic — of or relating to phonemes: a phonemic system.
- 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.
- phorminx — an ancient Greek stringed musical instrument of the lyre family
- phoronid — any member of the invertebrate phylum Phoronida, wormlike marine animals living in a chitinous tube and having an anterior structure bearing ciliated tentacles for feeding.
- 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.
- photonic — of or relating to processes involving photons.
- phrasing — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- phrenism — one of the three vital forces, which are non-physical life forces. Phrenism is the thought force, as opposed to neurism, the nerve force, and bathmism, the growth force.
- phrygian — of or relating to Phrygia, its people, or their language.
- phthalin — any of a group of compounds obtained by the reduction of the phthaleins.
- phubbing — to ignore (a person or one's surroundings) when in a social situation by busying oneself with a phone or other mobile device: Hey, are you phubbing me? I hate to see a mother wheeling a stroller while phubbing her baby.
- phytonic — of or relating to a phyton
- pin-hole — a small hole made by or as by a pin.
- pinchbug — a stag beetle
- pincheck — a very small check woven into fabric, much used in the manufacture of men's and women's suits.
- pinchers — a gripping tool consisting of two pivoted limbs forming a pair of jaws and a pair of handles (usually used with pair of).
- pinchgut — someone who does not give other people enough food
- pinochet — Augusto (auˈɣusto). 1915-2006, Chilean general and statesman; president of Chile (1974–90) following his overthrow of Allende (1973): charged (2001) with murder and kidnapping but found unfit to stand trial
- pinochle — a popular card game played by two, three, or four persons, with a 48-card deck.
- pinscher — one of a group of related dogs including the Doberman pinscher, miniature pinscher, and affenpinscher.
- pinwheel — a child's toy consisting of a wheel or leaflike curls of paper or plastic loosely attached by a pin to a stick, designed to revolve when blown by or as by the wind.
- pitch in — to erect or set up (a tent, camp, or the like).
- pitch on — to erect or set up (a tent, camp, or the like).
- pitching — any of various dark, tenacious, and viscous substances for caulking and paving, consisting of the residue of the distillation of coal tar or wood tar.
- pitchman — an itinerant vendor of small wares that are usually carried in a case with collapsible legs, allowing it to be set up or removed quickly.
- plainish — rather ordinary-looking
- plashing — a gentle splash.
- poaching — the illegal practice of trespassing on another's property to hunt or steal game without the landowner's permission.
- pouching — a bag, sack, or similar receptacle, especially one for small articles or quantities: a tobacco pouch.
- prankish — of the nature of a prank: a prankish plan.
- prehnite — a mineral, hydrous calcium aluminum silicate, Ca 2 Al 2 Si 3 O 1 0 (OH) 2 , occurring in light-green reniform aggregates or tabular crystals.
- psyching — psych1 .
- punch in — a thrusting blow, especially with the fist.
- punchier — punch-drunk.
- punching — a tool or machine for perforating or stamping materials, driving nails, etc.
- punisher — to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault: to punish a criminal.
- pythonic — prophetic; oracular.
- qing hai — a lake in W central China, in NE Qinghai province. 2300 sq. mi. (5950 sq. km).
- quashing — Present participle of quash.
- qui nhon — a seaport in SE Vietnam, on the South China Sea coast.
- rainwash — material eroded or swept away by rain.
- ranching — an establishment maintained for raising livestock under range conditions.
- raphania — a type of ergotism possibly resulting from ingestion of the poison from radish seeds
- red hind — a grouper, Epinephelus guttatus, of Florida, the West Indies, etc., valued as a food fish.
- refinish — to give a new surface to (wood, furniture, etc.).
- reinhold — a male given name.
- retching — to make efforts to vomit.
- reuchlin — Johann [yoh-hahn] /ˈyoʊ hɑn/ (Show IPA), 1455–1522, German humanist scholar.
- rhaetian — of or relating to Rhaetia.