8-letter words containing i, n, h
- mouthing — the action of speaking in a meaningless, bombastic, or hypocritical manner.
- muishond — A species of weasel found in southern Africa, Poecilogale albinucha.
- mulching — (agriculture) Used for applying a mulch.
- munchies — crunchy or chewy. Informal. for snacking: munchy foods like popcorn and cookies.
- munching — to chew with steady or vigorous working of the jaws, often audibly.
- munchkin — a small person, especially one who is dwarfish or elfin in appearance.
- murrhine — of, relating to, or manufactured of murra.
- mutchkin — Scot. a unit of liquid measure equal to a little less than a U.S. liquid pint.
- nailhead — the enlarged top of a nail, usually flattened but sometimes rounded.
- naismith — James, 1861–1939, U.S. physical-education teacher and originator of basketball, born in Canada.
- nanching — a port in and the capital of Jiangsu province, in E China, on the Chang Jiang: a former capital of China.
- nannyish — Like a nanny; tending to coddle.
- naphtali — the sixth son of Jacob and Bilhah. Gen. 30:7,8.
- narghile — a Middle Eastern tobacco pipe in which the smoke is drawn through water before reaching the lips; hookah.
- nargileh — Alternative form of narghile.
- nathalie — a female given name.
- nebbishy — a pitifully ineffectual, luckless, and timid person.
- nehemiah — a Hebrew leader of the 5th century b.c.
- neighbor — a person who lives near another.
- neighing — Present participle of neigh.
- neohippy — A new age hippy.
- nephrism — chronic kidney disease, renal failure
- nephrite — Mineralogy. a compact or fibrous variety of actinolite, varying from whitish to dark green: a form of jade.
- nephroid — kidney-shaped
- nephtali — Naphtali.
- new-rich — newly or suddenly wealthy.
- niarchos — Stavros Spyros [stahv-raws spee-raws] /ˈstɑv rɔs ˈspi rɔs/ (Show IPA), 1909–1996, Greek businessman and shipowner.
- nichiren — (Zennichi; Zenshobo Rencho) 1222–82, Japanese Buddhist monk: founder of Nichiren Buddhism.
- nicholas — (Thomas Parentucelli) 1397?–1455, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1447–55.
- 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.
- niflheim — a place of eternal cold, darkness, and fog, ruled over by Hel: abode of those who die of illness or old age.
- nighness — The quality or state of being nigh, or near.
- nightcap — Informal. an alcoholic drink taken at bedtime or at the end of a festive evening.
- nighters — Plural form of nighter.
- nighties — Plural form of nightie.
- nightjar — a nocturnal European bird, Caprimulgus europaeus, of the family Caprimulgidae, having a short bill and a wide mouth and feeding on insects captured in the air.
- nightowl — a person who often stays up late at night; nighthawk.
- nihilism — total rejection of established laws and institutions.
- nihilist — total rejection of established laws and institutions.
- nihility — nothingness; nonexistence.
- nihonium — a highly radioactive element, of which only a few atoms have ever been produced. Symbol: Nh; atomic no: 113; atomic wt: 286
- ninnyish — Silly; foolish.
- nishapur — a town in NE Iran: the birthplace of Omar Khayyám.
- noachian — of or relating to the patriarch Noah or his time.
- nohowish — lacking distinctiveness
- nonhairy — Not hairy.
- nonohmic — of or pertaining to that which does not obey Ohm's law
- nonwhite — a sociocultural classification of modern humans with darker pigmentation of the skin than is characteristic in people of European descent.
- northing — northward movement or deviation.
- nosherei — food for snacking or noshing.