8-letter words containing h, o, n, u
- job-hunt — to seek employment; look for a job.
- junkshop — A shop selling miscellaneous items of questionable value.
- krumhorn — crumhorn.
- laughton — Charles, 1899–1962, U.S. actor, born in England.
- lunchbox — a small container, usually of metal or plastic and with a handle, for carrying one's lunch from home to school or work.
- luncheon — lunch, especially a formal lunch held in connection with a meeting or other special occasion: the alumni luncheon.
- man-hour — a man who is honored by a group.
- manhours — Plural form of manhour.
- molehunt — a hunt for moles
- monmouth — James Scott, Duke of, 1649–85, illegitimate son of Charles II of England and pretender to the throne of James II.
- monohull — (of a vessel) having a single hull.
- mouching — to borrow (a small item or amount) without intending to return or repay it.
- mouthing — the action of speaking in a meaningless, bombastic, or hypocritical manner.
- muishond — A species of weasel found in southern Africa, Poecilogale albinucha.
- newhouse — Samuel I(rving) 1895–1979, U.S. publisher.
- nihonium — a highly radioactive element, of which only a few atoms have ever been produced. Symbol: Nh; atomic no: 113; atomic wt: 286
- nonesuch — a person or thing without equal; paragon.
- nonhuman — not human.
- noonhour — the hour between 12 noon and 1 p.m.
- northrup — a male given name.
- northumb — Northumberland
- not much — very little
- notch up — make score marks to count
- nuncheon — (now dialectal, archaic) A drink or light snack taken in the afternoon; a refreshment between meals.
- nuthouse — a mental hospital; insane asylum.
- olynthus — an ancient city in NE Greece, on the Chalcidice Peninsula.
- omadhaun — a foolish man or boy
- onrushes — Plural form of onrush.
- onychium — a small fern plant of Old World tropics and subtropics
- oughtn't — ought not, ought not to
- ourinhos — a city in E Brazil.
- outnight — to mention nights more often than
- outpunch — to punch better than
- outshine — to surpass in shining; shine more brightly than.
- outshone — to surpass in shining; shine more brightly than.
- outthank — to outdo in thanking
- outthink — to excel in thinking; think faster, more accurately, or more perceptively than: outthinking most of her contemporaries in the field of human relations.
- overhung — simple past tense and past participle of overhang.
- overhunt — to hunt in an unsustainable manner
- phone up — call on the telephone
- pouching — a bag, sack, or similar receptacle, especially one for small articles or quantities: a tobacco pouch.
- proudhon — Pierre Joseph [pyer zhaw-zef] /pyɛr ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1809–65, French socialist and writer.
- prud'hon — Pierre Paul [pyer pawl] /pyɛr pɔl/ (Show IPA), (Pierre Prudon) 1758–1823, French painter.
- puncheon — a heavy slab of timber, roughly dressed, for use as a floorboard.
- pushdown — a list in which the last item added is at the top
- quanzhou — a seaport in SE Fujian province, in SE China, on Taiwan Strait.
- qui nhon — a seaport in SE Vietnam, on the South China Sea coast.
- rhonchus — a wheezing or snoring sound heard upon auscultation of the chest, caused by an accumulation of mucus or other material.
- rough on — severe towards
- roundish — somewhat round: a roundish man; roundish furniture.