8-letter words containing n, o, r, h
- overhent — to overtake
- overhung — simple past tense and past participle of overhang.
- overhunt — to hunt in an unsustainable manner
- overthin — too thin
- parochin — a parish
- phorminx — an ancient Greek stringed musical instrument of the lyre family
- phoronid — any member of the invertebrate phylum Phoronida, wormlike marine animals living in a chitinous tube and having an anterior structure bearing ciliated tentacles for feeding.
- proudhon — Pierre Joseph [pyer zhaw-zef] /pyɛr ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1809–65, French socialist and writer.
- prud'hon — Pierre Paul [pyer pawl] /pyɛr pɔl/ (Show IPA), (Pierre Prudon) 1758–1823, French painter.
- ranchero — a rancher.
- randolph — A(sa) Philip, 1889–1979, U.S. labor leader: president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1925–68.
- rathbone — Basil, 1892–1967, English actor, born in South Africa.
- reinhold — a male given name.
- 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.
- rheotron — (formerly) betatron.
- rhiannon — the wife of Pwyll who, accused of having eaten her son, was forced as a penance to carry people on her back until vindicated by her son's return.
- rhodanic — of or relating to thiocyanic acid
- rhonchus — a wheezing or snoring sound heard upon auscultation of the chest, caused by an accumulation of mucus or other material.
- 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.
- right on — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- right-on — exactly right or to the point.
- roaching — Nautical. the upward curve at the foot of a square sail. (loosely) a convexity given to any of the edges of a sail; round.
- rohypnol — Rohypnol is a powerful drug that makes a person semi-conscious.
- romansch — a group of Rhaetian dialects spoken in the Swiss canton of Graubünden; an official language of Switzerland since 1938
- rondache — a small, round shield
- rough on — severe towards
- roundish — somewhat round: a roundish man; roundish furniture.
- schooner — Nautical. any of various types of sailing vessel having a foremast and mainmast, with or without other masts, and having fore-and-aft sails on all lower masts. See also ketch, topsail schooner, yawl1 (def 2).
- shagroon — a nineteenth-century Australian settler in Canterbury
- sheraton — Thomas, 1751–1806, English cabinetmaker and furniture designer.
- shnorrer — a person who habitually borrows or lives at the expense of others with no intention of repaying; sponger; moocher; beggar.
- shoehorn — a shaped piece of horn, metal, or the like, inserted in the heel of a shoe to make it slip on more easily.
- shopworn — worn or marred, as goods exposed and handled in a store.
- shoreman — a person who lives on the shore
- short on — having little length; not long.
- shorting — having little length; not long.
- showring — an area where animals are displayed for sale or competition
- southern — lying toward, situated in, or directed toward the south.
- southron — Southern U.S. southerner (def 2).
- staghorn — a piece of a stag's antler, especially when used to form objects, decorations, or the like.
- sunporch — a room with large windows and often a glass roof, built around one of the main entrances to a building
- synchro- — indicating synchronization
- the horn — the telephone
- the morn — tomorrow
- thermion — an ion emitted by incandescent material.
- thonburi — a city in S Thailand, near Bangkok.
- thornset — set with thorns
- thornton — William, 1759–1828, U.S. architect, born in the British Virgin Islands.
- threnode — threnody.
- threnody — a poem, speech, or song of lamentation, especially for the dead; dirge; funeral song.