8-letter words containing n, s, h
- nighters — Plural form of nighter.
- nighties — Plural form of nightie.
- nihilism — total rejection of established laws and institutions.
- nihilist — total rejection of established laws and institutions.
- ninnyish — Silly; foolish.
- nishapur — a town in NE Iran: the birthplace of Omar Khayyám.
- nohowish — lacking distinctiveness
- nonesuch — a person or thing without equal; paragon.
- northers — Plural form of norther.
- nosehole — A nostril.
- nosherei — food for snacking or noshing.
- nothings — Plural form of nothing.
- novelish — (esp of a name or a person) characteristic of a novel; having qualities like those of a character or scene in a novel; fanciful; romantic
- nowheres — in or at no place; not anywhere: The missing pen was nowhere to be found.
- nucflash — a report of highest precedence notifying the president, secretary of defense, or their deputies of an accidental or unauthorized nuclear-weapon launch or of a nuclear attack.
- numbfish — an electric ray, so called from its power of numbing its prey by means of electric shocks.
- nut dash — a dash equal in length to the width of an en quad; en dash.
- nuthouse — a mental hospital; insane asylum.
- nutshell — the shell of a nut.
- nymphets — a young nymph.
- oanshagh — a foolish girl or woman
- olynthus — an ancient city in NE Greece, on the Chalcidice Peninsula.
- on sight — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- on-shelf — On-shelf goods are available now and displayed for sale.
- one-shot — a magazine, brochure, or the like that is published only one time, with no subsequent issues intended, usually containing articles and photographs devoted to one topical subject.
- 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.
- outshine — to surpass in shining; shine more brightly than.
- outshone — to surpass in shining; shine more brightly than.
- pansophy — universal wisdom or knowledge.
- parishen — a parishioner
- pashmina — a fabric or garment made from pashm, especially a shawl, wrap, or scarf.
- pawnshop — the shop of a pawnbroker, especially one where unredeemed items are displayed and sold.
- pentheus — the grandson of Cadmus and his successor as king of Thebes, who resisted the introduction of the cult of Dionysus. In revenge the god drove him mad and he was torn to pieces by a group of bacchantes, one of whom was his mother
- pershing — a 38-foot (12 meters) U.S. Army surface-to-surface nuclear missile with a single warhead and range of more than 1000 miles (1609 km).
- phantasm — an apparition or specter.
- phantast — a visionary or dreamer.
- phantasy — fantasy.
- phase in — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- phase-in — an act or instance of phasing in; gradual introduction or implementation.
- pheasant — any of numerous large, usually long-tailed, Old World gallinaceous birds of the family Phasianidae, widely introduced.
- phishing — to try to obtain financial or other confidential information from Internet users, typically by sending an email that looks as if it is from a legitimate organization, usually a financial institution, but contains a link to a fake website that replicates the real one.
- phonemes — any of a small set of units, usually about 20 to 60 in number, and different for each language, considered to be the basic distinctive units of speech sound by which morphemes, words, and sentences are represented. They are arrived at for any given language by determining which differences in sound function to indicate a difference in meaning, so that in English the difference in sound and meaning between pit and bit is taken to indicate the existence of different labial phonemes, while the difference in sound between the unaspirated p of spun and the aspirated p of pun, since it is never the only distinguishing feature between two different words, is not taken as ground for setting up two different p phonemes in English. Compare distinctive feature (def 1).
- phoniest — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
- phosgene — a poisonous, colorless, very volatile liquid or suffocating gas, COCl 2 , a chemical-warfare compound: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- phrasing — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- phrenism — one of the three vital forces, which are non-physical life forces. Phrenism is the thought force, as opposed to neurism, the nerve force, and bathmism, the growth force.
- pinchers — a gripping tool consisting of two pivoted limbs forming a pair of jaws and a pair of handles (usually used with pair of).