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8-letter words containing o, w, h

  • fishworm — an earthworm.
  • for show — in order to impress, for display only
  • foreshow — to show beforehand.
  • forewish — (transitive) To wish or desire beforehand.
  • goshawks — Plural form of goshawk.
  • hackwork — writing, painting, or any professional work done for hire and usually following a formula rather than being motivated by any creative impulse.
  • hailwood — Mike, full name Stanley Michael Bailey Hailwood. 1940–81, English racing motorcyclist: world champion (250 cc.) 1961 and 1966–67; (350 cc.) 1966–67; and (500 cc.) 1962–65
  • hairwork — the art of producing articles made of hair
  • hairworm — any small, slender worm of the family Trichostrongylidae, parasitic in the alimentary canals of various animals.
  • halfword — (computing) An area of storage one half the size of the word in a particular system; usually two bytes.
  • hallowed — regarded as holy; venerated; sacred: Hallowed be Thy name; the hallowed saints; our hallowed political institutions.
  • handwork — work done by hand, as distinguished from work done by machine.
  • hangchow — Older Spelling. Hangzhou.
  • hard-won — If you describe something that someone has gained or achieved as hard-won, you mean that they worked hard to gain or achieve it.
  • hardwood — the hard, compact wood or timber of various trees, as the oak, cherry, maple, or mahogany.
  • harewood — the greenish-gray wood of the sycamore maple, used for making furniture.
  • harrowed — an agricultural implement with spikelike teeth or upright disks, drawn chiefly over plowed land to level it, break up clods, root up weeds, etc.
  • harrower — an agricultural implement with spikelike teeth or upright disks, drawn chiefly over plowed land to level it, break up clods, root up weeds, etc.
  • hawk owl — a gray and white diurnal owl, Surnia ulula, of northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere, resembling a hawk in appearance and actions.
  • hawknose — a nose curved like the beak of a hawk.
  • hawthorn — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Crataegus, of the rose family, typically a small tree with stiff thorns, certain North American species of which have white or pink blossoms and bright-colored fruits and are cultivated in hedges.
  • hayworth — Rita (Margarita Carmen Cansino) 1918–87, U.S. dancer and actress.
  • headword — a word, phrase, or the like, appearing as the heading of a chapter, dictionary or encyclopedia entry, etc.
  • headwork — mental labor; thought.
  • hedgerow — a row of bushes or trees forming a hedge.
  • heelwork — the training of a dog to heel or perform maneuvers while heeling.
  • henslowe — Philip, died 1616, English theater manager.
  • hepworth — Dame Barbara, 1903–75, English sculptor.
  • high-low — a game of poker in which both high and low hands are eligible to win, the pot usually being split equally between the player with the highest hand and the player with the lowest hand.
  • highbrow — a person of superior intellectual interests and tastes.
  • hit show — successful tv series
  • hoedowns — Plural form of hoedown.
  • hog wild — highly excited; without moderation or restraint
  • hog-ward — someone who looks after hogs
  • hog-wild — wildly or intemperately enthusiastic or excited.
  • hoistway — a shaft for a hoist or a lift
  • holddown — a clamp for holding a metal piece, as a sheet being deep-drawn, to prevent distortion or movement.
  • hole saw — crown saw.
  • hollowed — having a space or cavity inside; not solid; empty: a hollow sphere.
  • hollower — Comparative form of hollow.
  • hollowly — having a space or cavity inside; not solid; empty: a hollow sphere.
  • holy cow — astonishment
  • holy war — a war waged for what is supposed or proclaimed to be a holy purpose, as the defense of faith.
  • home row — (in touch typing) the row on a typewriter or computer keyboard that contains the keys (home keys) to which four fingers of each hand return as a base, on a QWERTY keyboard being A, S, D, and F for the left hand and J, K, L, and the semicolon for the right.
  • homebrew — beer or other alcoholic beverage made at home.
  • hometown — the town or city in which a person lives or was born, or from which a person comes.
  • homeward — Also, homewards. toward home.
  • homeware — crockery, furniture, and furnishings with which a house, room, etc, is furnished
  • homewood — a city in central Alabama, near Birmingham.
  • homework — schoolwork assigned to be done outside the classroom (distinguished from classwork).
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