8-letter words containing o, h, m, s
- mcintosh — a variety of red apple that ripens in early autumn.
- menorahs — Plural form of menorah.
- mephisto — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
- meshwork — meshed material or a structure of meshes; a network.
- mishmosh — a confused mess; hodgepodge; jumble.
- misshood — the state or period of being an unmarried woman
- misthrow — (transitive) To throw incorrectly.
- mistouch — To touch inappropriately, wrongly or by mistake.
- modishly — In a modish manner.
- mohallas — Plural form of mohalla.
- monarchs — a hereditary sovereign, as a king, queen, or emperor.
- monkfish — angler (def 3).
- moochers — Plural form of moocher.
- moonfish — Also called horsefish, horsehead. any of several silvery marine fishes of the genus Selene, having a very compressed body and inhabiting shallow coastal waters.
- moonshee — a native interpreter or language instructor.
- moonship — a lunar module
- moonshot — the act or procedure of launching a rocket or spacecraft to the moon.
- morosoph — (obsolete) A philosophical or learned fool.
- morpheus — Classical Mythology. a son of Hypnos and the god of dreams.
- morphism — (mathematics, formally) an arrow in a category.
- moschate — having a musky smell.
- mosh pit — Slang. an area usually in front of a stage where people mosh at rock concerts.
- moshavim — Plural form of moshav.
- moss hag — an area, pit, or hole from which peat has been dug.
- mostwhat — most
- mud hose — A mud hose is a flexible tube which connects the mud tank to the swivel for forcing mud down the hole inside the drill string.
- mug shot — Also called headshot. an identifying photograph of a suspect or criminal, often one of a set showing a frontal view, a profile view, and a view of the back of the head.
- mugshots — Plural form of mugshot.
- muishond — A species of weasel found in southern Africa, Poecilogale albinucha.
- mulhouse — a city in E France, near the Rhine.
- mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
- musk hog — the collared peccary. See under peccary.
- obeahism — the custom of or faith in the form of witchcraft known as obeah
- oghamist — Alternative capitalization of Oghamist.
- omphalos — the navel; umbilicus.
- ophidism — Poisoning by snake venom.
- opsimath — (rare) A person who learns late in life.Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed., 2004.
- outshame — to shame greatly or surpass in shamefulness
- pashadom — the office or territory of a pasha
- phimosis — constriction of the orifice of the prepuce so as to prevent the foreskin from being drawn back to uncover the glans penis.
- 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).
- pochismo — an English word or expression borrowed into Spanish; a Spanish word showing U.S. influence.
- resmooth — to make smooth again
- 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.
- romansch — a group of Rhaetian dialects spoken in the Swiss canton of Graubünden; an official language of Switzerland since 1938
- rum shop — a tavern or shop selling liquor.
- rushmore — Mount, a peak in the Black Hills of South Dakota that is a memorial (Mount Rushmore National Memorial) having 60-foot (18-meter) busts of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt, carved into its face between 1927 and 1941, from a design by and under the direction of Gutzon Borglum. 5600 feet (1707 meters).
- schmooze — to chat idly; gossip.
- schmoozy — of or relating to schmoozing
- scholium — Often, scholia. an explanatory note or comment. an ancient annotation upon a passage in a Greek or Latin text.