8-letter words containing h, o, i
- 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.
- photo id — a piece of personal identification that contains a photograph
- photofit — A Photofit is a picture of someone wanted by the police which is made up of several photographs or drawings of different parts of the face. Compare e-fit, , identikit.
- photonic — of or relating to processes involving photons.
- photopia — vision in bright light (opposed to scotopia).
- phylloid — leaflike.
- physico- — physical, physical and
- physiol. — physiological
- phytonic — of or relating to a phyton
- phytosis — a disease which is caused by a vegetable parasite, for example a fungus
- pie-hole — a person's mouth
- pihoihoi — a New Zealand pipit, Anthus novaeseelandiae
- pin-hole — a small hole made by or as by a pin.
- 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.
- piroshki — small turnovers or dumplings with a filling, as of meat or fruit.
- pirozhki — small triangular pastries filled with meat, vegetables, etc
- pishogue — sorcery; witchcraft; black magic.
- pisolith — a pea-size calcareous concretion, larger than an oolith, aggregates of which constitute a pisolite.
- pitch on — to erect or set up (a tent, camp, or the like).
- pitchout — Baseball. a ball purposely thrown by a pitcher too far outside of the plate for the batter to hit, especially in anticipation of an attempted steal by a base runner.
- pitchpot — a pot used by sailors for heating pitch.
- po chu-i — a.d. 772–846, Chinese poet.
- poaching — the illegal practice of trespassing on another's property to hunt or steal game without the landowner's permission.
- pochismo — an English word or expression borrowed into Spanish; a Spanish word showing U.S. influence.
- poetship — the state or function of being poet
- pokerish — resembling a poker in stiffness
- polglish — informal Polish containing a high proportion of words of English origin
- polished — made smooth and glossy: a figurine of polished mahogany.
- polisher — to make smooth and glossy, especially by rubbing or friction: to polish a brass doorknob.
- popeship — the office of a pope
- porkfish — a black and gold grunt, Anisotremus virginicus, of West Indian waters.
- postiche — superadded, especially inappropriately, as a sculptural or architectural ornament.
- potiphar — the Egyptian officer whose wife tried to seduce Joseph. Gen. 39:1–20.
- pouching — a bag, sack, or similar receptacle, especially one for small articles or quantities: a tobacco pouch.
- prohibit — to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.
- proudish — rather proud
- prowfish — a fish, Zaprora silenus, of the North Pacific.
- psychoid — the innate impetus to perform actions
- pythonic — prophetic; oracular.
- qui nhon — a seaport in SE Vietnam, on the South China Sea coast.
- rabbitoh — (formerly) an itinerant seller of rabbits for eating
- regolith — mantle rock.
- reinhold — a male given name.
- repolish — a repolishing, the action of polishing again
- rhabdoid — a rod-shaped structure found in the cells of some plants and animals
- rheophil — (of organisms) liking flowing water
- rhetoric — (in writing or speech) the undue use of exaggeration or display; bombast.
- 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.
- rhizopod — any of numerous protozoa of the widespread subphylum (or superclass) Rhizopoda, characterized by a pseudopod and comprising most members of the phylum Sarcodina, including the amebas and foraminifers.