6-letter words containing o, n, h
- noshes — to snack or eat between meals.
- notchy — an angular or V -shaped cut, indentation, or slit in an object, surface, or edge.
- nother — Informal. a whole nother, an entirely different; a whole other.
- nothin — Apocopic form of nothing.
- nought — nothing.
- nympho — A nymphomaniac.
- ochone — an expression of sorrow or regret
- ohioan — of Ohio
- onhand — Alternative form of on hand.
- onrush — a strong forward rush, flow, etc.
- onycha — a part of a marine mollusc used as an ingredient in Mosaic incense
- oohing — Present participle of ooh.
- orihon — a manuscript scroll having columns running across the width, folded in accordion fashion along the separating margins.
- orkhon — a river in E central Asia, flowing E, N, and then NE from the N central Mongolian People's Republic to the Selenga River. About 400 miles (645 km) long.
- orphan — a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent.
- othman — Osman.
- pheno- — showing or manifesting
- phenol — 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.
- phenom — a phenomenon, especially a young prodigy: a twelve-year-old tennis phenom.
- phonal — a speech sound: There are three phonetically different “t” phones in an utterance of “titillate,” and two in an utterance of “tattletale.”.
- phoner — a person making a telephone call
- phoney — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
- phonic — of or relating to speech sounds.
- phono- — indicating a sound or voice
- phonon — a quantum of sound or vibratory elastic energy, being the analogue of a photon of electromagnetic energy.
- photon — a quantum of electromagnetic radiation, usually considered as an elementary particle that is its own antiparticle and that has zero rest mass and charge and a spin of one. Symbol: γ.
- phylon — a group that has a genetic relationship or common origin, as a race.
- phyton — the smallest part of a stem, root, or leaf, that, when removed from a plant, may grow into a new plant.
- pohang — a port city in SE South Korea.
- poncho — a blanketlike cloak with a hole in the center to admit the head, originating in South America, now often worn as a raincoat.
- python — a large dragon who guarded the chasm at Delphi from which prophetic vapors emerged. He was finally killed by Apollo, who established his oracle on the site.
- rancho — a ranch.
- rhino- — indicating the nose or nasal
- rhonda — a female given name.
- rhyton — an ancient Greek drinking horn, made of pottery or metal, having a base in the form of the head of a woman or animal.
- sancho — an African stringed instrument
- schnoz — a nose, especially one of unusually large size.
- senhor — a Portuguese term of address equivalent to sir or Mr., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a man. Abbreviation: Sr.
- shango — a W African religious cult surviving in some parts of the Caribbean
- sharon — Ariel, 1928–2014, Israeli military and political leader; prime minister 2001–06.
- shinto — Also, Shintoism. the native religion of Japan, primarily a system of nature and ancestor worship.
- shlong — the penis.
- shnook — schnook.
- shogun — the title applied to the chief military commanders from about the 8th century a.d. to the end of the 12th century, then applied to the hereditary officials who governed Japan, with the emperor as nominal ruler, until 1868, when the shogunate was terminated and the ruling power was returned to the emperor.
- shonky — of dubious integrity or legality
- shoran — a system for aircraft navigation in which two signals sent from an aircraft are received and answered by two fixed transponders, the round-trip times of the signals enabling the navigator to determine the aircraft's position.
- shunto — the annual sessions of collective bargaining for wage increases sought by Japanese labor unions each spring.
- siphon — 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.
- stheno — one of the three Gorgons
- syphon — 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.