8-letter words containing n, o, h
- homespun — spun or made at home: homespun cloth.
- hometown — the town or city in which a person lives or was born, or from which a person comes.
- hominess — comfortably informal and inviting; cozy; homelike: a homey little inn.
- hominids — any member of the group consisting of all modern and extinct humans and great apes (including gorillas, chimpanzees, and orangutans) and all their immediate ancestors.
- hominine — resembling or characteristic of humans.
- hominins — Plural form of hominin.
- hominize — to make something characteristically human or suitable for humans
- hominoid — Anthropology. a member of the biological superfamily Hominoidea, including all modern great apes and humans and a number of their extinct ancestors and relatives.
- homodont — (of most nonmammalian vertebrates) having teeth that are all of the same type
- 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.
- homogeny — correspondence in form or structure, owing to a common origin.
- homogony — state of being homogonous.
- 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
- honchoed — a leader, especially an assertive leader; chief.
- honduran — a republic in NE Central America. 43,277 sq. mi. (112,087 sq. km). Capital: Tegucigalpa.
- honduras — a republic in NE Central America. 43,277 sq. mi. (112,087 sq. km). Capital: Tegucigalpa.
- honecker — Erich [er-ik;; German ey-rikh] /ˈɛr ɪk;; German ˈeɪ rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1912–94, East German Communist leader: chairman of the Council of State 1976–89.
- honegger — Arthur [ahr-ther;; French ar-too r] /ˈɑr θər;; French arˈtʊər/ (Show IPA), 1892–1955, Swiss composer, born in France.
- honester — Comparative form of honest.
- honestie — Archaic spelling of honesty.
- honestly — in an honest manner.
- honewort — any plant of the genus Cryptotaenia, of the parsley family, especially C. canadensis, having clusters of small white flowers.
- honeybee — any bee that collects and stores honey, especially Apis mellifera.
- honeybun — A type of bun or pastry sweetened with honey.
- honeydew — honeydew melon.
- honeyful — full of honey
- honeying — Present participle of honey.
- honeypot — a pot, as of glass or silver, for storing and serving honey.
- honolulu — a state of the United States comprising the N Pacific islands of Hawaii, Kahoolawe, Kauai, Lanai, Maui, Molokai, Niihau, and Oahu: a U.S. territory 1900–59; admitted to the Union 1959. 6424 sq. mi. (16,715 sq. km). Capital: Honolulu. Abbreviation: HI (for use with zip code), Haw.
- honorand — the recipient of an honor, especially an honorary university degree.
- honorary — given for honor only, without the usual requirements, duties, privileges, emoluments, etc.: The university presented the new governor with an honorary degree.
- honorees — Plural form of honoree.
- honoring — honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
- honorius — (Giacomo Savelli) 1210–87, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1285–87.
- honorous — Honorable, honourable.
- honoured — to hold in honor or high respect; revere: to honor one's parents.
- honouree — One who receives an honour or award.
- hoodwink — to deceive or trick.
- hooknose — a curved nose; aquiline nose.
- hooligan — a ruffian or hoodlum.
- hoop-man — a basketball player.
- hop into — enter casually or spontaneously
- hopingly — in a hopeful manner
- horatian — of or relating to Horace.
- horizons — Plural form of horizon.
- hormonal — Biochemistry. any of various internally secreted compounds, as insulin or thyroxine, formed in endocrine glands, that affect the functions of specifically receptive organs or tissues when transported to them by the body fluids.
- hormones — Biochemistry. any of various internally secreted compounds, as insulin or thyroxine, formed in endocrine glands, that affect the functions of specifically receptive organs or tissues when transported to them by the body fluids.
- hormonic — Biochemistry. any of various internally secreted compounds, as insulin or thyroxine, formed in endocrine glands, that affect the functions of specifically receptive organs or tissues when transported to them by the body fluids.