8-letter words containing o, h, e, n
- hornbeam — any North American shrub or tree belonging to the genus Carpinus, of the birch family, yielding a hard, heavy wood, as C. caroliniana (American hornbeam)
- hornfels — a dark, fine-grained metamorphic rock, the result of recrystallization of siliceous or argillaceous sediments by contact metamorphism.
- horngeld — a feudal tax levied on horned cattle
- hornless — one of the bony, permanent, hollow paired growths, often curved and pointed, that project from the upper part of the head of certain ungulate mammals, as cattle, sheep, goats, or antelopes.
- hornlike — Projecting like a horn.
- hornpipe — an English folk clarinet having one ox horn concealing the reed and another forming the bell.
- horseman — a person who is skilled in riding a horse.
- horsemen — Plural form of horseman.
- hortense — a female given name.
- hostname — (computing) the unique name by which any device attached to a network is known.
- hot line — a direct telecommunications link, as a telephone line or Teletype circuit, enabling immediate communication between heads of state in an international crisis: the hot line between Washington and Moscow.
- hot zone — a variable area towards the end of a line of text that informs the operator that a decision must be taken as to whether to hyphenate or begin a new line
- hotelman — hotelkeeper.
- hotliner — a person who speaks to callers on a telephone hot line.
- hotlines — Plural form of hotline.
- hounders — one of any of several breeds of dogs trained to pursue game either by sight or by scent, especially one with a long face and large drooping ears.
- houseman — a male servant who performs general duties in a home, hotel, etc.
- housemen — Plural form of houseman.
- hov lane — a highway or street lane for high-occupancy vehicles, usually marked with large diamond shapes on the pavement.
- hovering — Present participle of hover.
- hox gene — any of a class of genes that determines the basic structure and orientation of an organism.
- hueytown — a town in central Alabama.
- huguenot — a member of the Reformed or Calvinistic communion of France in the 16th and 17th centuries; a French Protestant.
- hum tone — a note produced by a bell when struck, lying an octave or (in many English bells) a sixth or seventh below the strike tone
- hungover — hung (def 3).
- hurcheon — a hedgehog.
- hyalogen — any of several insoluble substances found in many animal structures such as cartilage which yield sugars on hydrolysis structures
- hydrogen — a colorless, odorless, flammable gas that combines chemically with oxygen to form water: the lightest of the known elements. Symbol: H; atomic weight: 1.00797; atomic number: 1; density: 0.0899 g/l at 0°C and 760 mm pressure.
- hyoidean — Also, hyoidal, hyoidean. noting or pertaining to a U -shaped bone at the root of the tongue in humans, or a corresponding bone or collection of bones in animals.
- hyoscine — scopolamine.
- hyperion — Classical Mythology. a Titan, the father of Helios, Selene, and Eos.
- hyperons — Plural form of hyperon.
- hypnoses — the ancient Greek god of sleep.
- hypnotee — a person being hypnotized
- hypogean — Existing or growing underground.
- hypogene — formed beneath the earth's surface, as granite (opposed to epigene).
- hypopnea — abnormally shallow and slow breathing.
- in holes — so worn as to be full of holes
- in-house — company: internal
- inchoate — not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary.
- infotech — Information technology.
- inhesion — the state or fact of inhering; inherence.
- inholder — An indweller, or anything indwelling; inhabitant; occupant.
- inthrone — enthrone.
- iolanthe — an operetta (1882) by Sir William S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan.
- iserlohn — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia,W Germany.
- isophane — (uncountable, medicine) A synthetic form of insulin used to treat diabetes.
- isophone — an isogloss marking off an area in which a particular feature of pronunciation is found
- johannes — a gold coin formerly used as currency in Portugal, first issued in the early 18th century.
- john dee — John, 1527–1608, English mathematician and astrologer.