8-letter words containing m, h, o
- mothlike — Resembling a moth or some aspect of one.
- mouchard — a police informer or spy
- mouching — to borrow (a small item or amount) without intending to return or repay it.
- mouchoir — a handkerchief.
- mouthbow — Musical bow.
- mouthful — the amount a mouth can hold.
- mouthier — Comparative form of mouthy.
- mouthily — in a mouthy or bombastic manner
- mouthing — the action of speaking in a meaningless, bombastic, or hypocritical manner.
- muchacho — (in Spanish-speaking regions) a young man.
- mud hose — A mud hose is a flexible tube which connects the mud tank to the swivel for forcing mud down the hole inside the drill string.
- mug shot — Also called headshot. an identifying photograph of a suspect or criminal, often one of a set showing a frontal view, a profile view, and a view of the back of the head.
- mugshots — Plural form of mugshot.
- muishond — A species of weasel found in southern Africa, Poecilogale albinucha.
- mulhouse — a city in E France, near the Rhine.
- multihop — (networking) Proceeding in multiple hops.
- mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
- musk hog — the collared peccary. See under peccary.
- myograph — an instrument for recording the contractions and relaxations of muscles.
- myopathy — any abnormality or disease of muscle tissue.
- myophily — pollination of plants by flies
- neomorph — (genetics) a gain of function mutation that causes novel gene function.
- 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.
- nihonium — a highly radioactive element, of which only a few atoms have ever been produced. Symbol: Nh; atomic no: 113; atomic wt: 286
- nomarchy — one of the provinces into which modern Greece is divided.
- nonhuman — not human.
- nonmatch — That which is not a match; a mismatch.
- nonohmic — of or pertaining to that which does not obey Ohm's law
- northman — one of the ancient Scandinavians, especially a member of the group that from about the 8th to the 11th century made many raids and established settlements in Great Britain, Ireland, many parts of continental Europe, and probably in parts of North America.
- northumb — Northumberland
- not much — very little
- nymphoid — Of or pertaining to a nymph.
- obeahism — the custom of or faith in the form of witchcraft known as obeah
- ockeghem — Johannes [yoh-hah-nuh s] /yoʊˈhɑ nəs/ (Show IPA), Okeghem, Jean d'.
- oghamist — Alternative capitalization of Oghamist.
- ohmmeter — an instrument for measuring electric resistance in ohms.
- oklahoma — a state in the S central U.S. 69,919 sq. mi. (181,090 sq. km). . Capital: Oklahoma City. Abbreviation: OK (for use with zip code), Okla.
- old chum — a person who is experienced, esp in life in colonial Australia
- omadhaun — a foolish man or boy
- omniarch — A ruler of the world.
- omohyoid — a muscle found in the shoulder
- omophagy — The eating of raw food, especially raw meat.
- omphalic — Of or pertaining to the umbilicus, or navel.
- omphalo- — navel, umbilicus
- omphalos — the navel; umbilicus.
- onychium — a small fern plant of Old World tropics and subtropics
- ophidism — Poisoning by snake venom.
- opsimath — (rare) A person who learns late in life.Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed., 2004.
- outcharm — to exceed in charming
- outhomer — to score more home runs than