8-letter words containing o, n, e, s, h
- outshone — to surpass in shining; shine more brightly than.
- 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.
- 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.
- sandshoe — a light tennis shoe; sneaker.
- schooner — Nautical. any of various types of sailing vessel having a foremast and mainmast, with or without other masts, and having fore-and-aft sails on all lower masts. See also ketch, topsail schooner, yawl1 (def 2).
- seahound — a dogfish
- shame on — shame should be felt by; this is shameful of
- shenzhou — any of a series of manned Chinese spacecraft
- sheraton — Thomas, 1751–1806, English cabinetmaker and furniture designer.
- shinbone — the tibia.
- shnorrer — a person who habitually borrows or lives at the expense of others with no intention of repaying; sponger; moocher; beggar.
- shoehorn — a shaped piece of horn, metal, or the like, inserted in the heel of a shoe to make it slip on more easily.
- shoreman — a person who lives on the shore
- shoshone — a river in NW Wyoming, flowing NE into the Big Horn River. 120 miles (193 km) long.
- sinkhole — a hole formed in soluble rock by the action of water, serving to conduct surface water to an underground passage.
- siphoned — a tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawing a liquid from one container into another on a lower level by placing the shorter leg into the container above and the longer leg into the one below, the liquid being forced up the shorter leg and into the longer one by the pressure of the atmosphere.
- siphonet — (of aphids) a small siphon on the abdomen by which an aphid emits sticky liquid
- smoothen — to make or become smooth
- snowshed — a structure, as over an extent of railroad track on a mountainside, for protection against snow.
- snowshoe — a contrivance that may be attached to the foot to enable the wearer to walk on deep snow without sinking, especially a light, racket-shaped frame across which is stretched a network of rawhide.
- somewhen — sometime.
- sondheim — Stephen (Joshua) born 1930, U.S. composer and lyricist.
- southern — lying toward, situated in, or directed toward the south.
- sphenoid — being in the shape of a wedge; wedge-shaped.
- stanhope — James, 1st Earl Stanhope, 1673–1721, British soldier and statesman: prime minister 1717–18.
- stoneham — a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
- sulphone — any of a class of organic compounds containing the divalent group –SO2 linked to two other organic groups. Certain sulphones are used in the treatment of leprosy and tuberculosis
- sunchoke — Jerusalem artichoke (def 2).
- syphoned — a tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawing a liquid from one container into another on a lower level by placing the shorter leg into the container above and the longer leg into the one below, the liquid being forced up the shorter leg and into the longer one by the pressure of the atmosphere.
- thornset — set with thorns
- unchosen — a past participle of choose.
- unkosher — Judaism. fit or allowed to be eaten or used, according to the dietary or ceremonial laws: kosher meat; kosher dishes; a kosher tallith. adhering to the laws governing such fitness: a kosher restaurant.
- whoreson — a bastard.
- wineshop — a shop where wine is sold.
- wishbone — a forked bone, formed by the fusion of the two clavicles, in front of the breastbone in most birds; furcula.