8-letter words containing h, o, n, r, i
- hornlike — Projecting like a horn.
- hornpipe — an English folk clarinet having one ox horn concealing the reed and another forming the bell.
- horntail — any of various wasplike insects of the family Siricidae, the females of which have a hornlike ovipositor.
- hotliner — a person who speaks to callers on a telephone hot line.
- hovering — Present participle of hover.
- humoring — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- hydronic — of or relating to a heating system for a building in which the medium for carrying heat throughout the structure is circulating water, especially when the circulation is aided by a pump.
- hyperion — Classical Mythology. a Titan, the father of Helios, Selene, and Eos.
- in short — having little length; not long.
- inchworm — measuringworm.
- incroach — Archaic form of encroach.
- ingrowth — growth inward.
- inholder — An indweller, or anything indwelling; inhabitant; occupant.
- inkhorns — Plural form of inkhorn.
- inthrone — enthrone.
- iserlohn — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia,W Germany.
- isochron — A line on a diagram or map connecting points relating to the same time or equal times.
- kohinoor — an Indian diamond weighing 106 carats; now part of the British crown jewels.
- korchnoi — Victor. 1931–2016, Soviet-born chess player: Soviet champion 1960, 1962, and 1964: defected to the West in 1976
- longhair — Sometimes Disparaging. an intellectual.
- 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).
- neighbor — a person who lives near another.
- nephroid — kidney-shaped
- niarchos — Stavros Spyros [stahv-raws spee-raws] /ˈstɑv rɔs ˈspi rɔs/ (Show IPA), 1909–1996, Greek businessman and shipowner.
- 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.
- nonhairy — Not hairy.
- northing — northward movement or deviation.
- nosherei — food for snacking or noshing.
- omniarch — A ruler of the world.
- orangish — resembling or suggesting an orange, as in taste, appearance, or color: decorated with orangy-pink flowers.
- ornithes — birds considered collectively
- ornithic — of or relating to birds.
- ornitho- — bird or birds
- orthicon — a camera tube, more sensitive than the iconoscope, in which a beam of low-velocity electrons scans a photoemissive mosaic.
- othering — (chiefly philosophy) The process of perceiving or portraying someone or something as fundamentally different or alien.
- ourinhos — a city in E Brazil.
- overthin — too thin
- parochin — a parish
- 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.
- reinhold — a male given name.
- 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.
- rhodanic — of or relating to thiocyanic acid
- richmond — a state in the E United States, on the Atlantic coast: part of the historical South. 40,815 sq. mi. (105,710 sq. km). Capital: Richmond. Abbreviation: VA (for use with zip code), Va.
- right on — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- right-on — exactly right or to the point.
- roaching — Nautical. the upward curve at the foot of a square sail. (loosely) a convexity given to any of the edges of a sail; round.
- roundish — somewhat round: a roundish man; roundish furniture.