8-letter words containing m, h, o
- outhumor — to exceed in humouring
- outmarch — to march faster or farther than.
- outmatch — to be superior to; surpass; outdo: The home team seems to have been completely outmatched by the visitors.
- outshame — to shame greatly or surpass in shamefulness
- overmuch — If something happens overmuch, it happens too much or very much.
- pashadom — the office or territory of a pasha
- peamouth — a minnow, Mylocheilus caurinus, of northwestern U.S. and British Columbian waters.
- philemon — an Epistle written by Paul. Abbreviation: Phil.
- philomel — the nightingale.
- philomot — having the same colour as that of a dead leaf
- phimosis — constriction of the orifice of the prepuce so as to prevent the foreskin from being drawn back to uncover the glans penis.
- phimotic — constriction of the orifice of the prepuce so as to prevent the foreskin from being drawn back to uncover the glans penis.
- phlegmon — a swollen, red, and painful mass affecting bodily tissue that may progress to abscess
- phonecam — a digital camera incorporated in a mobile phone
- 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).
- phonemic — of or relating to phonemes: a phonemic system.
- phorminx — an ancient Greek stringed musical instrument of the lyre family
- phormium — any plant of the New Zealand bulbous genus Phormium, with leathery evergreen leaves and red or yellow flowers in panicles
- photomap — a mosaic of aerial photographs marked as a map, with grid lines, place-names, etc.
- phyllome — a leaf of a plant.
- plymouth — an island in the Leeward Islands, in the SE West Indies: a British crown colony. 39½ sq. mi. (102 sq. km). Capital: Plymouth.
- pochismo — an English word or expression borrowed into Spanish; a Spanish word showing U.S. influence.
- polymath — a person of great learning in several fields of study; polyhistor.
- pumphood — a cover for the upper wheel of a chain pump
- rehoboam — the successor of Solomon and the first king of Judah, reigned 922?–915? b.c. I Kings 11:43.
- resmooth — to make smooth again
- 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.
- rheotome — an interrupter of an electric current
- rhomboid — an oblique-angled parallelogram with only the opposite sides equal.
- 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.
- romansch — a group of Rhaetian dialects spoken in the Swiss canton of Graubünden; an official language of Switzerland since 1938
- rum shop — a tavern or shop selling liquor.
- rushmore — Mount, a peak in the Black Hills of South Dakota that is a memorial (Mount Rushmore National Memorial) having 60-foot (18-meter) busts of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt, carved into its face between 1927 and 1941, from a design by and under the direction of Gutzon Borglum. 5600 feet (1707 meters).
- schmooze — to chat idly; gossip.
- schmoozy — of or relating to schmoozing
- scholium — Often, scholia. an explanatory note or comment. an ancient annotation upon a passage in a Greek or Latin text.
- scomfish — to stifle
- semihobo — a person looking almost like a hobo
- shame on — shame should be felt by; this is shameful of
- shamokin — a borough in E Pennsylvania.
- shamrock — any of several trifoliate plants, as the wood sorrel, Oxalis acetosella, or a small, pink-flowered clover, Trifolium repens minus, but especially Trifolium procumbens, a small, yellow-flowered clover: the national emblem of Ireland.
- sheikdom — the land or territory under the control of a sheik.
- shipworm — any of various wormlike marine bivalve mollusks that burrow into the timbers of ship, wharves, etc.
- shkotzim — a term used especially by a Jew to refer to a boy or man who is not Jewish.
- shloshim — the period of thirty days' deep mourning following a death
- shoreman — a person who lives on the shore
- shortarm — (of a punch) with the arm bent
- showjump — to take part in a showjumping competition
- showroom — a room used for the display of goods or merchandise.
- showtime — the time at which an entertainment is scheduled to begin.