8-letter words containing o, n, h
- outnight — to mention nights more often than
- outpunch — to punch better than
- outshine — to surpass in shining; shine more brightly than.
- outshone — to surpass in shining; shine more brightly than.
- outthank — to outdo in thanking
- outthink — to excel in thinking; think faster, more accurately, or more perceptively than: outthinking most of her contemporaries in the field of human relations.
- 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
- pachinko — a Japanese pinball game played on a vertical machine in which slots struck by the player's ball release other balls that in turn are exchanged for noncash prizes.
- pancheon — a wide, shallow bowl, originally used for making bread or separating cream
- pansophy — universal wisdom or knowledge.
- 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.
- parochin — a parish
- pathogen — any disease-producing agent, especially a virus, bacterium, or other microorganism.
- pawnshop — the shop of a pawnbroker, especially one where unredeemed items are displayed and sold.
- 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.
- phorminx — an ancient Greek stringed musical instrument of the lyre family
- phoronid — any member of the invertebrate phylum Phoronida, wormlike marine animals living in a chitinous tube and having an anterior structure bearing ciliated tentacles for feeding.
- phosgene — a poisonous, colorless, very volatile liquid or suffocating gas, COCl 2 , a chemical-warfare compound: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- photinia — any of various trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Photinia, of the rose family, having clusters of small white flowers and red, berrylike fruit.
- 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.
- photonic — of or relating to processes involving photons.
- phytonic — of or relating to a phyton
- 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.
- pitch on — to erect or set up (a tent, camp, or the like).
- poaching — the illegal practice of trespassing on another's property to hunt or steal game without the landowner's permission.
- polyphon — a large clockwork or hand-operated music box
- ponchoed — wearing a poncho
- pouching — a bag, sack, or similar receptacle, especially one for small articles or quantities: a tobacco pouch.
- powhatan — a member of any of the Indian tribes belonging to the Powhatan Confederacy.
- proudhon — Pierre Joseph [pyer zhaw-zef] /pyɛr ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1809–65, French socialist and writer.
- prud'hon — Pierre Paul [pyer pawl] /pyɛr pɔl/ (Show IPA), (Pierre Prudon) 1758–1823, French painter.
- puncheon — a heavy slab of timber, roughly dressed, for use as a floorboard.