8-letter words containing n, o, r, h
- man-hour — a man who is honored by a group.
- manhours — Plural form of manhour.
- manwhore — (slang) A man who sells his body for money; a male prostitute.
- maranhao — a state in NE Brazil. 125,312 sq. mi. (324,560 sq. km). Capital: São Luiz.
- marathon — a plain in SE Greece, in Attica: the Athenians defeated the Persians here 490 b.c.
- menorahs — Plural form of menorah.
- monarchs — a hereditary sovereign, as a king, queen, or emperor.
- monarchy — a state or nation in which the supreme power is actually or nominally lodged in a monarch. Compare absolute monarchy, limited monarchy.
- morbihan — a department in W France. 2738 sq. mi. (7090 sq. km). Capital: Vannes.
- 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.
- morphing — Linguistics. a sequence of phonemes constituting a minimal unit of grammar or syntax, and, as such, a representation, member, or contextual variant of a morpheme in a specific environment. Compare allomorph (def 2).
- neighbor — a person who lives near another.
- neomorph — (genetics) a gain of function mutation that causes novel gene function.
- nephroid — kidney-shaped
- nephrons — Plural form of nephron.
- niarchos — Stavros Spyros [stahv-raws spee-raws] /ˈstɑv rɔs ˈspi rɔs/ (Show IPA), 1909–1996, Greek businessman and shipowner.
- 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.
- no other — nothing else
- no throw — an illegal throw in a sport such as the discus or shot put
- no-hoper — a useless person from whom nothing can be expected.
- nomarchy — one of the provinces into which modern Greece is divided.
- non-hero — antihero.
- nonhairy — Not hairy.
- nonhardy — characterized by fragility or incapable of surviving under difficult conditions
- noonhour — the hour between 12 noon and 1 p.m.
- northern — lying toward or situated in the north.
- northers — Plural form of norther.
- northing — northward movement or deviation.
- northman — one of the ancient Scandinavians, especially a member of the group that from about the 8th to the 11th century made many raids and established settlements in Great Britain, Ireland, many parts of continental Europe, and probably in parts of North America.
- northrop — John Howard, 1891–1987, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1946.
- northrup — a male given name.
- northumb — Northumberland
- nosherei — food for snacking or noshing.
- nowheres — in or at no place; not anywhere: The missing pen was nowhere to be found.
- o. henry — Cole, 1893–1964, U.S. composer.
- omniarch — A ruler of the world.
- on earth — (often initial capital letter) the planet third in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,755 km) and a polar diameter of 7900 miles (12,714 km), a mean distance from the sun of 92.9 million miles (149.6 million km), and a period of revolution of 365.26 days, and having one satellite.
- onrushes — Plural form of onrush.
- oophoron — an ovary
- orangish — resembling or suggesting an orange, as in taste, appearance, or color: decorated with orangy-pink flowers.
- orchanet — Alternative form of alkanet.
- ornithes — birds considered collectively
- ornithic — of or relating to birds.
- ornitho- — bird or birds
- orphaned — a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent.
- orthicon — a camera tube, more sensitive than the iconoscope, in which a beam of low-velocity electrons scans a photoemissive mosaic.
- othering — (chiefly philosophy) The process of perceiving or portraying someone or something as fundamentally different or alien.
- ourinhos — a city in E Brazil.
- overhand — thrown or performed with the hand raised over the shoulder; overarm: overhand stroke.
- overhang — to hang or be suspended over: A great chandelier overhung the ballroom.