8-letter words containing n, o, w, h
- now that — at the present time or moment: You are now using a dictionary.
- now then — used to preface an important remark, the next step in an argument, etc
- nowhence — from no place; from nowhere
- nowheres — in or at no place; not anywhere: The missing pen was nowhere to be found.
- on watch — If someone is on watch, they have the job of carefully looking and listening, often while other people are asleep and often as a military duty, so that they can warn them of danger or an attack.
- pawnshop — the shop of a pawnbroker, especially one where unredeemed items are displayed and sold.
- powhatan — a member of any of the Indian tribes belonging to the Powhatan Confederacy.
- pushdown — a list in which the last item added is at the top
- shopworn — worn or marred, as goods exposed and handled in a store.
- showdown — the laying down of one's cards, face upward, in a card game, especially poker.
- showring — an area where animals are displayed for sale or competition
- shutdown — a shutting down, as of a factory, school, or machine; a termination or suspension of operations, services, or business activity: a partial government shutdown; an emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor.
- snowbush — any of several ornamental shrubs having a profusion of white flowers, as Ceanothus cordulatus, of the buckthorn family, native to western North America.
- snowshed — a structure, as over an extent of railroad track on a mountainside, for protection against snow.
- snowshoe — a contrivance that may be attached to the foot to enable the wearer to walk on deep snow without sinking, especially a light, racket-shaped frame across which is stretched a network of rawhide.
- somewhen — sometime.
- thindown — a reduction in the number of particles, esp protons, of very high energy reaching and penetrating the earth's atmosphere from outer space
- throw in — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
- throw on — clothing: put on hastily
- throwing — the act of projecting or casting (something) through the air, esp with a rapid motion of the arm and wrist
- townhall — a hall or building belonging to a town, used for the transaction of the town's business and often also as a place of public assembly.
- townhome — town house (def 3).
- township — a unit of local government, usually a subdivision of a county, found in most midwestern and northeastern states of the U.S. and in most Canadian provinces.
- tungchow — Tongzhou.
- unhallow — to desecrate; profane.
- unshadow — to remove a shadow from
- unworthy — not worthy; lacking worth or excellence.
- wahpeton — a member of a North American Indian people belonging to the Santee branch of the Dakota.
- waldhorn — an organ reed stop
- wanworth — an inexpensive purchase
- washdown — the act or process of washing down, as in cleaning something completely.
- webphone — A telephone that connects through the internet.
- weigh on — to determine or ascertain the force that gravitation exerts upon (a person or thing) by use of a balance, scale, or other mechanical device: to weigh oneself; to weigh potatoes; to weigh gases.
- whatnots — Plural form of whatnot.
- whodunit — a narrative dealing with a murder or a series of murders and the detection of the criminal; detective story.
- wholphin — the hybrid offspring of a whale and a dolphin
- whomping — Present participle of whomp.
- whooping — Present participle of whoop.
- whopping — very large of its kind; thumping: We caught four whopping trout.
- whoreson — a bastard.
- windhoek — a republic in SW Africa: a former German protectorate; a mandate of South Africa 1920–66; gained independence 1990. 318,261 sq. mi. (824,296 sq. km). Capital: Windhoek.
- wineshop — a shop where wine is sold.
- winthrop — John, 1588–1649, English colonist in America: 1st governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony 1629–33, 1637–40, 1642–44, 1646–49.
- wishbone — a forked bone, formed by the fusion of the two clavicles, in front of the breastbone in most birds; furcula.
- womanish — womanlike or feminine.
- wooshing — Present participle of woosh.
- worthing — to happen or betide: woe worth the day.