8-letter words containing o, n, h
- nosehole — A nostril.
- nosherei — food for snacking or noshing.
- not half — Half is sometimes used in negative statements, with a positive meaning, to emphasize a particular fact or quality. For example, if you say 'he isn't half lucky', you mean that he is very lucky.
- not much — very little
- not that — which is not to say or suppose that
- notch up — make score marks to count
- notching — an angular or V -shaped cut, indentation, or slit in an object, surface, or edge.
- nothings — Plural form of nothing.
- 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 that — at the present time or moment: You are now using a dictionary.
- 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.
- nymphoid — Of or pertaining to a nymph.
- o. henry — Cole, 1893–1964, U.S. composer.
- oanshagh — a foolish girl or woman
- oenochoe — oinochoe.
- off hand — If you do not know something off hand, you do not know it without having to ask someone else or look it up in a book.
- oinochoe — a wine pitcher or jug, characterized by a curved handle extending from the lip to the shoulder, and a round or trefoil mouth.
- old hand — a person who is experienced in or familiar with a subject, area, procedure, etc.: The guide you just hired is an old hand at leading safaris.
- oliphant — Margaret Wilson, 1828–97, Scottish novelist.
- olynthus — an ancient city in NE Greece, on the Chalcidice Peninsula.
- omadhaun — a foolish man or boy
- omniarch — A ruler of the world.
- 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 faith — through trust; without proof or evidence
- on sight — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- on watch — If someone is on watch, they have the job of carefully looking and listening, often while other people are asleep and often as a military duty, so that they can warn them of danger or an attack.
- 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
- onychium — a small fern plant of Old World tropics and subtropics
- oolachan — eulachon.
- oophoron — an ovary
- openhole — Openhole describes an uncased (=having no casing or liner) part of a well.
- ophidian — belonging or pertaining to the suborder Ophidia (Serpentes), comprising the snakes.
- orangish — resembling or suggesting an orange, as in taste, appearance, or color: decorated with orangy-pink flowers.
- orchanet — Alternative form of alkanet.
- ornithes — birds considered collectively
- ornithic — of or relating to birds.
- ornitho- — bird or birds
- orphaned — a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent.
- orthicon — a camera tube, more sensitive than the iconoscope, in which a beam of low-velocity electrons scans a photoemissive mosaic.
- othering — (chiefly philosophy) The process of perceiving or portraying someone or something as fundamentally different or alien.
- othoniel — Othniel.
- oughtn't — ought not, ought not to
- ourinhos — a city in E Brazil.