7-letter words containing h, o, n
- hypnone — acetophenone.
- hypogyn — (botany) Any hypogynous plant.
- hyponym — a term that denotes a subcategory of a more general class: “Chair” and “table” are hyponyms of “furniture.”. Compare superordinate (def 4).
- idahoan — a state in the NW United States. 83,557 sq. mi. (216,415 sq. km). Capital: Boise. Abbreviation: ID (for use with zip code), Id., Ida.
- in hock — If someone is in hock, they are in debt.
- in-home — available, provided, or taking place in a person's home: in-home tutoring.
- inhouse — Alternative spelling of in-house.
- inkhorn — a small container of horn or other material, formerly used to hold writing ink.
- inkhosi — Alternative spelling of inkosi.
- inshoot — The act of shooting or moving rapidly inward, as a baseball that is pitched with a curve.
- inshore — close or closer to the shore.
- insooth — (obsolete) truly.
- iphinoe — a daughter of Antia and Proetus who was inflicted with madness for her irreverence toward the gods. Compare Iphianassa (def 2).
- isoneph — a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having the same amount of cloudiness.
- ivanhoe — a novel (1819) by Sir Walter Scott.
- jinzhou — a city in S Liaoning province, in NE China.
- johanna — a female given name.
- john ii — (Mercurius) died a.d. 535, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 533–535.
- john iv — died a.d. 642, pope 640–642.
- john ix — died a.d. 900, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 898–900.
- john vi — died a.d. 705, Greek ecclesiastic: pope 701–705.
- john xi — died a.d. 936, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 931–936.
- john xv — died a.d. 996, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 985–996.
- johnson — Andrew, 1808–75, seventeenth president of the U.S. 1865–69.
- joshing — good-natured banter.
- kaneohe — a town on E Oahu, in Hawaii.
- kenosha — a port in SE Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
- kherson — a port in S Ukraine, on the Dnieper River, on the Black Sea.
- khoisan — a family of languages found chiefly in southern Africa and including the languages of the San and the Khoikhoi.
- khojent — a town in Tajikistan on the Syr Darya River: one of the oldest towns in central Asia; textile industries. Pop: 146 000 (2005 est)
- khorana — Har Gobind [hahr goh-bind] /hɑr ˈgoʊ bɪnd/ (Show IPA), 1922–2011, U.S. biochemist and researcher in genetics, born in India: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1968.
- knoweth — Archaic third-person singular form of know.
- knowhow — knowledge of how to do something; faculty or skill for a particular activity; expertise: Designing a computer requires a lot of know-how.
- kohonen — T. Kohonen
- kronach — Lucas ("the Elder") 1472–1553, German painter and graphic artist.
- lanchow — a city in and the capital of Gansu province, in N China, on the Huang He.
- lanzhou — a province in N central China. 137,104 sq. mi. (355,099 sq. km). Capital: Lanzhou.
- leghorn — English name of Livorno.
- lochans — Plural form of lochan.
- lokshen — noodles
- longeth — Archaic third-person singular form of long.
- longish — somewhat long.
- lothian — a region in E Scotland. 700 sq. mi. (1813 sq. km).
- lowchen — a small dog of a breed with a long wavy coat, often having the hindquarters and tail clipped to resemble a lion
- machaon — a son of Asclepius who was famed as a healer and who served as physician of the Greeks in the Trojan War.
- mahjong — a game of Chinese origin usually played by four persons with 144 dominolike pieces or tiles marked in suits, counters, and dice, the object being to build a winning combination of pieces.
- mahonia — any of various evergreen shrubs belonging to the genus Mahonia, of the barberry family, including the Oregon grape.
- mahound — Archaic. Muhammad.
- manetho — flourished c250 b.c, Egyptian high priest of Heliopolis: author of a history of Egypt.
- manhole — a hole, usually with a cover, through which a person may enter a sewer, drain, steam boiler, etc., especially one located in a city street.