8-letter words containing n, o, h, m
- omadhaun — a foolish man or boy
- omniarch — A ruler of the world.
- onychium — a small fern plant of Old World tropics and subtropics
- 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.
- phorminx — an ancient Greek stringed musical instrument of the lyre family
- 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.
- 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
- shame on — shame should be felt by; this is shameful of
- shamokin — a borough in E Pennsylvania.
- shoreman — a person who lives on the shore
- smithson — James, 1765–1829, English chemist and mineralogist.
- 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.
- symphony — Music. an elaborate instrumental composition in three or more movements, similar in form to a sonata but written for an orchestra and usually of far grander proportions and more varied elements. an instrumental passage occurring in a vocal composition, or between vocal movements in a composition. an instrumental piece, often in several movements, forming the overture to an opera or the like.
- 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.
- thompson — Benjamin, Count Rumford, 1753–1814, English physicist and diplomat, born in the U.S.
- thrombin — an enzyme of the blood plasma that catalyzes the conversion of fibrinogen to fibrin, the last step of the blood clotting process.
- thurmond — (James) Strom [strom] /strɒm/ (Show IPA), 1902–2003, U.S. politician.
- thymosin — a hormone, produced by the thymus gland, that promotes the development of T cells from stem cells.
- townhome — town house (def 3).
- unhomely — not homely
- unmodish — passé, unfashionable
- unsmooth — coarse or unrefined
- vamphorn — a megaphone in use during the 18th and early 19th centuries for public address in church services.
- whomping — Present participle of whomp.
- womanish — womanlike or feminine.
- xanthoma — a yellow papule or nodule in the skin, containing lipid deposits.
- zamenhof — Lazarus Ludwig (laˈzarus ˈludvik). 1859–1917, Polish oculist; invented Esperanto