8-letter words containing o, n, h
- unbought — simple past tense and past participle of buy.
- unchosen — a past participle of choose.
- unclothe — to strip of clothes.
- unfought — (of a victory, battle, etc) not fought
- unhallow — to desecrate; profane.
- unheroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- unholily — in an unholy manner
- unhomely — not homely
- 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.
- unmodish — passé, unfashionable
- unpolish — to remove polish from, to make imperfect
- unshadow — to remove a shadow from
- unshroud — to divest of a shroud or something that shrouds or hides: to unshroud a corpse; to unshroud a mystery.
- unsmooth — coarse or unrefined
- unsought — simple past tense and past participle of seek.
- unthrone — to dethrone or remove as if by dethroning.
- unworthy — not worthy; lacking worth or excellence.
- vamphorn — a megaphone in use during the 18th and early 19th centuries for public address in church services.
- van gogh — Vincent [vin-suh nt;; Dutch vin-sent] /ˈvɪn sənt;; Dutch vɪnˈsɛnt/ (Show IPA), 1853–90, Dutch painter.
- voronezh — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe.
- vouching — to support as being true, certain, reliable, etc. (usually followed by for): Her record in office vouches for her integrity.
- wahpeton — a member of a North American Indian people belonging to the Santee branch of the Dakota.
- waldhorn — an organ reed stop
- wanworth — an inexpensive purchase
- washdown — the act or process of washing down, as in cleaning something completely.
- webphone — A telephone that connects through the internet.
- weigh on — to determine or ascertain the force that gravitation exerts upon (a person or thing) by use of a balance, scale, or other mechanical device: to weigh oneself; to weigh potatoes; to weigh gases.
- whatnots — Plural form of whatnot.
- whodunit — a narrative dealing with a murder or a series of murders and the detection of the criminal; detective story.
- wholphin — the hybrid offspring of a whale and a dolphin
- whomping — Present participle of whomp.
- whooping — Present participle of whoop.
- whopping — very large of its kind; thumping: We caught four whopping trout.
- whoreson — a bastard.
- windhoek — a republic in SW Africa: a former German protectorate; a mandate of South Africa 1920–66; gained independence 1990. 318,261 sq. mi. (824,296 sq. km). Capital: Windhoek.
- wineshop — a shop where wine is sold.
- winthrop — John, 1588–1649, English colonist in America: 1st governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony 1629–33, 1637–40, 1642–44, 1646–49.
- wishbone — a forked bone, formed by the fusion of the two clavicles, in front of the breastbone in most birds; furcula.
- womanish — womanlike or feminine.
- wooshing — Present participle of woosh.
- worthing — to happen or betide: woe worth the day.
- xanthoma — a yellow papule or nodule in the skin, containing lipid deposits.
- xanthone — (organic compound) An aromatic ketone, 9-oxo-xanthene, that is used as an insecticide.
- xanthous — yellow.
- xenolith — a rock fragment foreign to the igneous rock in which it is embedded.
- xenophon — 434?–355? b.c, Greek historian and essayist.
- xenophya — parts of a shell or skeleton formed by foreign bodies
- yangshao — of or designating a Neolithic culture of N China c5000–3000 b.c., characterized by dwellings with sunken floors, domestication of the pig, and a fine handmade pottery painted mainly in geometric designs of spirals and circles.
- yangzhou — a city in central Jiangsu province, in E China.
- youngish — somewhat young.