8-letter words containing m, h, o
- homegirl — a girl or woman from the same locality as oneself.
- homeland — one's native land.
- homeless — without a home: a homeless child.
- homelier — Comparative form of homely.
- homelike — like or suggestive of home; familiar; warmly comfortable.
- homelily — in a homely manner
- homemade — made or prepared at home, locally, or by the maker's own efforts: The restaurant's pastry is homemade. Breakfast at the farmhouse always meant homemade preserves.
- homeobox — Any of a class of closely similar sequences that occur in various genes and are involved in regulating embryonic development in a wide range of species.
- homeosis — The replacement of part of one segment of an insect or other segmented animal by a structure characteristic of a different segment, especially through mutation.
- homeotic — Of or pertaining to homeosis.
- homepage — Alternative form of home page.
- homeport — The port where a vessel is based (not necessarily the one where it is registered).
- homering — Present participle of homer.
- homeroom — a classroom in which pupils in the same grade or division of a grade meet at certain times under the supervision of a teacher, who takes attendance and administers other school business.
- homesick — sad or depressed from a longing for home or family while away from them for a long time.
- homesite — a plot of land for a home.
- homespun — spun or made at home: homespun cloth.
- homestay — housing accommodations in a home with a family in residence, as for a student or traveler: Foreign-exchange students can choose between a homestay or campus dormitory.
- hometime — The time when pupils go home at the end of the school day.
- hometown — the town or city in which a person lives or was born, or from which a person comes.
- homeward — Also, homewards. toward home.
- homeware — crockery, furniture, and furnishings with which a house, room, etc, is furnished
- homewood — a city in central Alabama, near Birmingham.
- homework — schoolwork assigned to be done outside the classroom (distinguished from classwork).
- homicide — the killing of one human being by another.
- homilies — Plural form of homily.
- homilist — a person who writes or delivers homilies.
- hominess — comfortably informal and inviting; cozy; homelike: a homey little inn.
- hominids — any member of the group consisting of all modern and extinct humans and great apes (including gorillas, chimpanzees, and orangutans) and all their immediate ancestors.
- hominine — resembling or characteristic of humans.
- hominins — Plural form of hominin.
- hominize — to make something characteristically human or suitable for humans
- hominoid — Anthropology. a member of the biological superfamily Hominoidea, including all modern great apes and humans and a number of their extinct ancestors and relatives.
- homodont — (of most nonmammalian vertebrates) having teeth that are all of the same type
- homodyne — of or relating to reception by a device that generates a varying voltage of the same or nearly the same frequency as the incoming carrier wave and combines it with the incoming signal for detection.
- homogamy — the state of being homogamous.
- homogeny — correspondence in form or structure, owing to a common origin.
- homogony — state of being homogonous.
- homologs — Plural form of homolog.
- homology — the state of being homologous; homologous relation or correspondence.
- homonyms — Phonetics. a word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning, whether spelled the same way or not, as heir and air; a homophone (def 1).
- homonymy — homonymous state.
- homotony — the condition of being homotonic
- homotope — (topology, transitive) To define or demonstrate a homotopy of (one map with another).
- homotopy — the relation that exists between two mappings in a topological space if one mapping can be deformed in a continuous way to make it coincide with the other.
- homotype — an organ or part having a structure similar to that of another organ or part; homologue.
- hoodlums — Plural form of hoodlum.
- hookworm — any of certain bloodsucking nematode worms, as Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus, parasitic in the intestine of humans and other animals.
- hoop-man — a basketball player.
- hormesis — Stimulation by the use of a low concentration of a toxin.