8-letter words containing h, o, n, s
- nonesuch — a person or thing without equal; paragon.
- northers — Plural form of norther.
- nosehole — A nostril.
- nosherei — food for snacking or noshing.
- nothings — Plural form of nothing.
- novelish — (esp of a name or a person) characteristic of a novel; having qualities like those of a character or scene in a novel; fanciful; romantic
- nowheres — in or at no place; not anywhere: The missing pen was nowhere to be found.
- nuthouse — a mental hospital; insane asylum.
- oanshagh — a foolish girl or woman
- olynthus — an ancient city in NE Greece, on the Chalcidice Peninsula.
- on sight — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- on-shelf — On-shelf goods are available now and displayed for sale.
- one-shot — a magazine, brochure, or the like that is published only one time, with no subsequent issues intended, usually containing articles and photographs devoted to one topical subject.
- onrushes — Plural form of onrush.
- orangish — resembling or suggesting an orange, as in taste, appearance, or color: decorated with orangy-pink flowers.
- ornithes — birds considered collectively
- ourinhos — a city in E Brazil.
- outshine — to surpass in shining; shine more brightly than.
- outshone — to surpass in shining; shine more brightly than.
- pansophy — universal wisdom or knowledge.
- pawnshop — the shop of a pawnbroker, especially one where unredeemed items are displayed and sold.
- phonemes — any of a small set of units, usually about 20 to 60 in number, and different for each language, considered to be the basic distinctive units of speech sound by which morphemes, words, and sentences are represented. They are arrived at for any given language by determining which differences in sound function to indicate a difference in meaning, so that in English the difference in sound and meaning between pit and bit is taken to indicate the existence of different labial phonemes, while the difference in sound between the unaspirated p of spun and the aspirated p of pun, since it is never the only distinguishing feature between two different words, is not taken as ground for setting up two different p phonemes in English. Compare distinctive feature (def 1).
- phoniest — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
- phosgene — a poisonous, colorless, very volatile liquid or suffocating gas, COCl 2 , a chemical-warfare compound: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- pushdown — a list in which the last item added is at the top
- rhamnose — deoxymannose; a deoxy hexose sugar, C 6 H 1 2 O 5 , that is an important component of the polysaccharides of plant cell walls.
- rhonchus — a wheezing or snoring sound heard upon auscultation of the chest, caused by an accumulation of mucus or other material.
- romansch — a group of Rhaetian dialects spoken in the Swiss canton of Graubünden; an official language of Switzerland since 1938
- roundish — somewhat round: a roundish man; roundish furniture.
- sandshoe — a light tennis shoe; sneaker.
- schizont — (in the asexual reproduction of certain sporozoans) a cell developed from a trophozoite, which undergoes multiple fission to form merozoites.
- schooner — Nautical. any of various types of sailing vessel having a foremast and mainmast, with or without other masts, and having fore-and-aft sails on all lower masts. See also ketch, topsail schooner, yawl1 (def 2).
- seahound — a dogfish
- shagroon — a nineteenth-century Australian settler in Canterbury
- shalloon — a light, twilled woolen fabric used chiefly for linings.
- shame on — shame should be felt by; this is shameful of
- shamokin — a borough in E Pennsylvania.
- shandong — a maritime province in E China. 59,189 sq. mi. (153,299 sq. km). Capital: Jinan.
- shaoxing — a city in NE Zhejiang province, in E China.
- shaoyang — a city in central Hunan province, in E China.
- shenzhou — any of a series of manned Chinese spacecraft
- sheraton — Thomas, 1751–1806, English cabinetmaker and furniture designer.
- shillong — a state in NE India. 8660 sq. mi. (22,429 sq. km). Capital: Shillong.
- shinbone — the tibia.
- shnorrer — a person who habitually borrows or lives at the expense of others with no intention of repaying; sponger; moocher; beggar.
- shoaling — any large number of persons or things.
- shocking — causing intense surprise, disgust, horror, etc.
- shoehorn — a shaped piece of horn, metal, or the like, inserted in the heel of a shoe to make it slip on more easily.
- shogging — to shake; jolt.
- shooting — to hit, wound, damage, kill, or destroy with a missile discharged from a weapon.