8-letter words containing o, n, h
- horn fly — a small bloodsucking fly, Haematobia irritans, that is a pest, especially of cattle.
- horn-mad — furiously enraged; intensely angry.
- hornbeak — a dialect name for a fish known as the garfish, hornfish or sea needle
- 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)
- hornbill — any large bird of the family Bucerotidae, of the Old World tropics, characterized by a very large bill usually surmounted by a horny protuberance.
- hornbook — a leaf or page containing the alphabet, religious materials, etc., covered with a sheet of transparent horn and fixed in a frame with a handle, formerly used in teaching children to read.
- horndogs — Plural form of horndog.
- 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
- hornists — Plural form of hornist.
- 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.
- hornpout — horned pout.
- horntail — any of various wasplike insects of the family Siricidae, the females of which have a hornlike ovipositor.
- hornwork — A type of fortification consisting of a pair of demi-bastions with a curtain wall connecting them and with two long sides directed upon the faces of the bastions, or ravelins of the inner fortifications, so as to be defended by them.
- hornworm — the larva of any of several hawk moths, having a hornlike process at the rear of the abdomen.
- hornwort — any aquatic plant of the genus Ceratophyllum, found in ponds and slow streams.
- horseman — a person who is skilled in riding a horse.
- horsemen — Plural form of horseman.
- hortense — a female given name.
- hortulan — (obsolete) Belonging to a garden.
- hosannas — Plural form of hosanna.
- 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 link — a link between two files, as between a spreadsheet and a document, such that a change in one effects a change in the other.
- 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.
- houghing — Scot. hock1 (defs 1, 2).
- houghton — Henry Oscar, 1823–95, U.S. publisher.
- 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.
- hounding — 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.
- hounslow — a borough of Greater London, England.
- hourlong — lasting an hour: an hourlong interview.
- houseman — a male servant who performs general duties in a home, hotel, etc.
- housemen — Plural form of houseman.
- housings — Plural form of housing.
- housling — the growing of the climbing stem of the hop into a dense mass at the top of the poles which support it
- 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.
- how now? — what is the meaning of this?
- howdunit — A type of detective story in which the focus is not on who committed the crime, but how they have done so.
- howlings — Plural form of howling.
- hox gene — any of a class of genes that determines the basic structure and orientation of an organism.
- huancayo — a city in central Peru, on the Mantaro River.
- huapango — a fast, rhythmic dance of Mexico, performed by couples.
- 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.