8-letter words containing o, h, e, n
- funhouse — (in an amusement park) a building equipped with trick mirrors, shifting floors, and other devices designed to scare or amuse people as they walk through.
- funkhole — a dugout
- gemshorn — a type of horn with carved tone holes, traditionally made from the horn of the chamois
- genizoth — Plural form of genizah.
- geophone — a device that is placed on or in the ground and used to detect seismic waves.
- ginhouse — a building in which cotton is ginned
- groaneth — Archaic third-person singular form of groan.
- groschen — a zinc or aluminum coin of Austria until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a schilling.
- gunhouse — an armoured rotatable enclosure for guns on a warship
- gunkhole — a quiet anchorage, as in a cove, used by small yachts.
- habanero — an extremely pungent small pepper, the fruit of a variety of Capsicum chinense, used in cookery.
- hagueton — acton.
- halazone — a white crystalline powder, C 7 H 5 Cl 2 NO 4 S, having a strong chlorinelike odor, used to disinfect water.
- halcyone — a third-magnitude star in the constellation Taurus: brightest star in the Pleiades.
- half one — 30 minutes after one o'clock, two o'clock, three o'clock, etc
- halftone — Also called middle-tone. (in painting, drawing, graphics, photography, etc.) a value intermediate between light and dark.
- halogens — Plural form of halogen.
- handover — the act of relinquishing property, authority, etc.: a handover of occupied territory.
- handsome — having an attractive, well-proportioned, and imposing appearance suggestive of health and strength; good-looking: a handsome man; a handsome woman.
- hanepoot — a variety of muscat grape used as a dessert fruit and in making wine
- hangover — the disagreeable physical aftereffects of drunkenness, such as a headache or stomach disorder, usually felt several hours after cessation of drinking.
- hannover — a member of the royal family that ruled Great Britain under that name from 1714 to 1901.
- hapteron — a structure by which a fungus, aquatic plant, or algae colony attaches to an object; a holdfast.
- hardnose — a person who is tough and uncompromising
- have-not — Usually, have-nots. an individual or group that is without wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have).
- hawknose — a nose curved like the beak of a hawk.
- hazleton — a city in E Pennsylvania.
- headlong — with the head foremost; headfirst: to plunge headlong into the water.
- headnote — a brief summary, comment, or explanation that precedes a chapter, report, etc.
- heavy on — using large quantities of
- hedonics — the branch of psychology that deals with pleasurable and unpleasurable states of consciousness.
- hedonism — the doctrine that pleasure or happiness is the highest good.
- hedonist — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
- hegemony — leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others, as in a confederation.
- helicons — Plural form of helicon.
- hellions — Plural form of hellion.
- hemionus — (zoology, obsolete) A wild ass found in Tibet; the kiang.
- hencoops — Plural form of hencoop.
- henhouse — a shelter for poultry.
- henroost — A place used by hens for roosting.
- henryson — Robert. ?1430–?1506, Scottish poet. His works include Testament of Cresseid (1593), a sequel to Chaucer's Troilus and Cressida, the 13 Moral Fables of Esope the Phrygian, and the pastoral dialogue Robene and Makyne
- henslowe — Philip, died 1616, English theater manager.
- heptagon — a polygon having seven angles and seven sides.
- hereinto — into this place.
- hereunto — to this matter, document, subject, etc.; regarding this point: attached hereto; agreeable hereto.
- hereupon — upon or on this.
- herisson — A beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot, used to block up a passage.
- hermione — the daughter of Menelaus and Helen.
- herodian — of or relating to Herod the Great, his family, or its partisans.
- heroines — Plural form of heroine.