8-letter words containing n, o, h
- froshing — Present participle of frosh.
- frothing — an aggregation of bubbles, as on an agitated liquid or at the mouth of a hard-driven horse; foam; spume.
- funhouse — (in an amusement park) a building equipped with trick mirrors, shifting floors, and other devices designed to scare or amuse people as they walk through.
- funkhole — a dugout
- gemshorn — a type of horn with carved tone holes, traditionally made from the horn of the chamois
- genizoth — Plural form of genizah.
- geophone — a device that is placed on or in the ground and used to detect seismic waves.
- ghosting — the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
- ginhouse — a building in which cotton is ginned
- gnathion — Craniometry. the lowest point on the anterior margin of the lower jaw in the midsaggital plane.
- gohonzon — (in Nichiren Buddhism) the paper scroll to which devotional chanting is directed
- groaneth — Archaic third-person singular form of groan.
- groschen — a zinc or aluminum coin of Austria until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a schilling.
- gryphons — Plural form of gryphon.
- gumphion — a funeral banner
- gunhouse — an armoured rotatable enclosure for guns on a warship
- gunkhole — a quiet anchorage, as in a cove, used by small yachts.
- gunshots — Plural form of gunshot.
- habanero — an extremely pungent small pepper, the fruit of a variety of Capsicum chinense, used in cookery.
- hadronic — (physics) of, related to, or composed of hadrons.
- hagueton — acton.
- haiphong — a seaport in N Vietnam, near the Gulf of Tonkin.
- halation — a blurred effect around the edges of highlight areas in a photographic image caused by reflection and scattering of light through the emulsion from the back surface of the film support or plate.
- halazone — a white crystalline powder, C 7 H 5 Cl 2 NO 4 S, having a strong chlorinelike odor, used to disinfect water.
- halcyone — a third-magnitude star in the constellation Taurus: brightest star in the Pleiades.
- halcyons — Plural form of halcyon.
- half one — 30 minutes after one o'clock, two o'clock, three o'clock, etc
- halfmoon — the moon when, at either quadrature, half its disk is illuminated.
- halftone — Also called middle-tone. (in painting, drawing, graphics, photography, etc.) a value intermediate between light and dark.
- halogens — Plural form of halogen.
- hamilton — William Hamilton
- hand job — an act of masturbation.
- hand log — chip log.
- hand off — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- hand out — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- hand-job — an act of masturbation.
- hand-off — Football. an offensive play in which a player, usually a back, hands the ball to a teammate. the ball itself during the execution of such a transfer: He fumbled the hand-off.
- hand-out — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- handbook — a book of instruction or guidance, as for an occupation; manual: a handbook of radio.
- handhold — a grip with the hand or hands.
- handiron — andiron.
- handload — to load (cartridges or other ammunition) by hand.
- handloom — a loom operated manually, in contrast to a power loom.
- handoffs — Plural form of handoff, alternative form of 'hand-off'.
- handouts — Plural form of handout.
- handover — the act of relinquishing property, authority, etc.: a handover of occupied territory.
- handroll — a Japanese dish consisting of a large cone of dried seaweed filled with cold rice and other ingredients, eaten with the fingers rather than chopsticks
- hands on — of, belonging to, using, or used by the hand.
- hands-on — characterized by or involved in active personal participation in an activity; individual and direct: a workshop to give children hands-on experience with computers.
- handsome — having an attractive, well-proportioned, and imposing appearance suggestive of health and strength; good-looking: a handsome man; a handsome woman.