8-letter words containing n, o, h, e, m
- monteith — a large punch bowl, usually of silver, having a notched rim for suspending punch cups.
- moonshee — a native interpreter or language instructor.
- morphine — a white, bitter, crystalline alkaloid, C 1 7 H 1 9 NO 3 ⋅H 2 O, the most important narcotic and addictive principle of opium, obtained by extraction and crystallization and used chiefly in medicine as a pain reliever and sedative.
- 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.
- philemon — an Epistle written by Paul. Abbreviation: Phil.
- 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.
- 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.
- shame on — shame should be felt by; this is shameful of
- shoreman — a person who lives on the shore
- smoothen — to make or become smooth
- somewhen — sometime.
- sondheim — Stephen (Joshua) born 1930, U.S. composer and lyricist.
- stoneham — a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
- thanedom — something that belongs to or lies within the jurisdiction of a thane
- the morn — tomorrow
- theonomy — the state of an individual or society that regards its own nature and norms as being in accord with the divine nature.
- thermion — an ion emitted by incandescent material.
- townhome — town house (def 3).
- unhomely — not homely
- zamenhof — Lazarus Ludwig (laˈzarus ˈludvik). 1859–1917, Polish oculist; invented Esperanto