8-letter words containing n, o, s, h, r
- menorahs — Plural form of menorah.
- monarchs — a hereditary sovereign, as a king, queen, or emperor.
- nephrons — Plural form of nephron.
- niarchos — Stavros Spyros [stahv-raws spee-raws] /ˈstɑv rɔs ˈspi rɔs/ (Show IPA), 1909–1996, Greek businessman and shipowner.
- northers — Plural form of norther.
- nosherei — food for snacking or noshing.
- nowheres — in or at no place; not anywhere: The missing pen was nowhere to be found.
- onrushes — Plural form of onrush.
- orangish — resembling or suggesting an orange, as in taste, appearance, or color: decorated with orangy-pink flowers.
- ornithes — birds considered collectively
- ourinhos — a city in E Brazil.
- 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.
- rhonchus — a wheezing or snoring sound heard upon auscultation of the chest, caused by an accumulation of mucus or other material.
- romansch — a group of Rhaetian dialects spoken in the Swiss canton of Graubünden; an official language of Switzerland since 1938
- 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
- thornset — set with thorns
- thurston — a male given name: from a Scandinavian word meaning “Thor's stone.”.
- torshavn — the capital of the Faeroe Islands, on the S tip of Streymoy Island.
- unkosher — Judaism. fit or allowed to be eaten or used, according to the dietary or ceremonial laws: kosher meat; kosher dishes; a kosher tallith. adhering to the laws governing such fitness: a kosher restaurant.
- unshroud — to divest of a shroud or something that shrouds or hides: to unshroud a corpse; to unshroud a mystery.
- whoreson — a bastard.