8-letter words containing m, y, o
- flaysome — (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Terrifying; frightful.
- fogeydom — the state or disposition of a fogey
- formably — formally
- formally — in a formal manner: The store was formally opened on Tuesday.
- formerly — in time past; in an earlier period or age; previously: a custom formerly observed.
- fumatory — of or relating to smoke, especially tobacco smoke, or to a place for smoking.
- fumitory — any plant of the genus Fumaria, especially a delicate herb, F. officinalis, having finely dissected, grayish leaves and spikes of purplish flowers.
- fumosity — the quality or state of being fumous or fumy
- game boy — a handheld games console, made by the company Nintendo, which was popular in the 1990s
- gayomart — the first Aryan and the sixth creation of Ahura Mazda.
- gemology — the science dealing with natural and artificial gemstones.
- geomancy — divination by geographic features or by figures or lines.
- geometry — the branch of mathematics that deals with the deduction of the properties, measurement, and relationships of points, lines, angles, and figures in space from their defining conditions by means of certain assumed properties of space.
- geomyoid — relating to burrowing rodents of the genus Geomys
- glamoury — (obsolete) magic.
- gloomily — dark or dim; deeply shaded: gloomy skies.
- gym shoe — a lightweight canvas shoe with a rubber sole; sneaker.
- gyp-room — a pantry, especially one attached to a student's quarters.
- harmosty — the office of a harmost
- hegemony — leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others, as in a confederation.
- hemocyte — a blood cell.
- hemolyze — to subject (red blood cells) to hemolysis.
- hobbyism — the practice of pursuing a hobby
- hogmanay — the eve of New Year's Day.
- hogmolly — hog sucker.
- hologamy — a type of reproduction in which the gametes are like ordinary cells in form and size, as is found in some algae and protozoa
- holonymy — (countable, semantics) A semantic relation that exists between a term denoting a whole (the holonym) and a term denoting a part that pertains to the whole (the meronym).
- holy man — priest, spiritual leader
- home boy — a person from the same locality as oneself.
- home key — See under home row.
- homebody — a person who prefers pleasures and activities that center around the home; stay-at-home.
- homeboys — Plural form of homeboy.
- homelily — in a homely manner
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- hummocky — Also, hammock. an elevated tract of land rising above the general level of a marshy region.
- hydromel — a liquor consisting of honey and water that, when fermented, becomes mead.
- hymnbook — (British) A book containing a collection of hymns.
- hypoderm — Zoology. an underlayer of epithelial cells in arthropods and certain other invertebrates that secretes substances for the overlying cuticle or exoskeleton.
- hypogamy — Act or practice of seeking a spouse of lower socioeconomic status, or caste status than oneself.
- hypogeum — Ancient Architecture. the underground part of a building, as a vault.