8-letter words containing o, n, e, h
- nosherei — food for snacking or noshing.
- 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
- 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.
- nuncheon — (now dialectal, archaic) A drink or light snack taken in the afternoon; a refreshment between meals.
- nuthouse — a mental hospital; insane asylum.
- o. henry — Cole, 1893–1964, U.S. composer.
- oenochoe — oinochoe.
- oinochoe — a wine pitcher or jug, characterized by a curved handle extending from the lip to the shoulder, and a round or trefoil mouth.
- on earth — (often initial capital letter) the planet third in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,755 km) and a polar diameter of 7900 miles (12,714 km), a mean distance from the sun of 92.9 million miles (149.6 million km), and a period of revolution of 365.26 days, and having one satellite.
- 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.
- onychite — a type of marble stone
- openhole — Openhole describes an uncased (=having no casing or liner) part of a well.
- orchanet — Alternative form of alkanet.
- ornithes — birds considered collectively
- orphaned — a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent.
- othering — (chiefly philosophy) The process of perceiving or portraying someone or something as fundamentally different or alien.
- othoniel — Othniel.
- outshine — to surpass in shining; shine more brightly than.
- outshone — to surpass in shining; shine more brightly than.
- overhand — thrown or performed with the hand raised over the shoulder; overarm: overhand stroke.
- overhang — to hang or be suspended over: A great chandelier overhung the ballroom.
- overhent — to overtake
- overhung — simple past tense and past participle of overhang.
- overhunt — to hunt in an unsustainable manner
- overthin — too thin
- pancheon — a wide, shallow bowl, originally used for making bread or separating cream
- pantheon — a national monument in Paris, France, used as a sepulcher for eminent French persons, begun in 1764 by Soufflot as the church of Ste. Geneviève and secularized in 1885.
- pathogen — any disease-producing agent, especially a virus, bacterium, or other microorganism.
- payphone — a public telephone requiring that the caller deposit coins or use a credit card to pay for a call.
- phaethon — a son of Helios who borrowed the chariot of the sun and drove it so close to earth that Zeus struck him down to save the world.
- phenolic — Also called carbolic acid, hydroxybenzene, oxybenzene, phenylic acid. a white, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous mass, C 6 H 5 OH, obtained from coal tar, or a hydroxyl derivative of benzene: used chiefly as a disinfectant, as an antiseptic, and in organic synthesis.
- philemon — an Epistle written by Paul. Abbreviation: Phil.
- phlegmon — a swollen, red, and painful mass affecting bodily tissue that may progress to abscess
- phone in — If you phone in to a radio or television show, you telephone the show in order to give your opinion on a matter that the show has raised.
- phone up — call on the telephone
- phonecam — a digital camera incorporated in a mobile phone
- 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).
- phonemic — of or relating to phonemes: a phonemic system.
- phonetic — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
- 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.
- photogen — a light oil obtained by the distillation of bituminous shale, coal, or peat: once commercially produced chiefly as an illuminant and as a solvent.
- pin-hole — a small hole made by or as by a pin.
- pinochet — Augusto (auˈɣusto). 1915-2006, Chilean general and statesman; president of Chile (1974–90) following his overthrow of Allende (1973): charged (2001) with murder and kidnapping but found unfit to stand trial
- pinochle — a popular card game played by two, three, or four persons, with a 48-card deck.
- ponchoed — wearing a poncho