8-letter words containing s, h, o
- beehouse — A beehive or apiary.
- behooves — use; advantage; benefit: The money was spent for his own behoof.
- bescorch — to scorch badly
- beshadow — to darken with shadow
- beshroud — to cover with a shroud
- besmooth — to smooth
- besoothe — to soothe
- besought — beseech
- big shot — A big shot is an important and powerful person in a group or organization.
- binchois — Gilles [Dutch khil-uh s;; French zheel] /Dutch ˈxɪl əs;; French ʒil/ (Show IPA), or Egidius [Dutch ey-khee-dee-oo s] /Dutch eɪˈxi diˌʊs/ (Show IPA), c1400–60, Flemish composer.
- birdshot — small pellets designed for shooting birds
- blockish — lacking vivacity or imagination; stupid
- blokeish — denoting or exhibiting the characteristics believed typical of an ordinary man
- blondish — (of hair, skin, etc.) light-colored: the child's soft blond curls.
- blowfish — puffer (sense 2)
- blush-on — blusher (def 2).
- boarfish — any of various spiny-finned marine teleost fishes of the genera Capros, Antigonia, etc, related to the dories, having a deep compressed body, a long snout, and large eyes
- boethius — Anicius Manlius Severinus (əˈnɪsɪəs ˈmænlɪəs ˌsɛvəˈraɪnəs). ?480–?524 ad, Roman philosopher and statesman, noted particularly for his work De Consolatione Philosophiae. He was accused of treason and executed by Theodoric
- bog rush — a blackish tufted cyperaceous plant, Schoenus nigricans, growing on boggy ground
- bone ash — the residue obtained when bones are burned in air, consisting mainly of calcium phosphate. It is used as a fertilizer and in the manufacture of bone china
- bonefish — a silvery marine clupeoid game fish, Albula vulpes, occurring in warm shallow waters: family Albulidae
- boobyish — stupid or silly
- bookshop — A bookshop is a shop where books are sold.
- boothose — a protective stocking or boot liner fashionable in the 17th century
- borghese — a noble Italian family whose members were influential in Italian art and politics from the 16th to the 19th century
- bosthoon — a boor
- broadish — fairly broad
- broguish — having or tending to a brogue
- bronchus — either of the two main branches of the trachea, which contain cartilage within their walls
- brownish — Something that is brownish is slightly brown in colour.
- brush-on — fit to be applied with a brush: a brush-on paint remover.
- brushoff — an abrupt or rude dismissal, esp. in the phrase give (or get) the brushoff
- buckshot — Buckshot consists of pieces of lead fired from a gun when hunting animals.
- bughouse — a mental hospital or asylum
- bullshot — a cocktail of vodka and beef stock
- bush lot — a tract of timberland
- bush-hog — to clear (land) by using a bush hog.
- bushgoat — a S African antelope
- caboshed — (of an animal, as a deer) shown facing forward without a neck: a stag's head caboshed.
- campshot — a facing of planks and piles placed along the bank of a river to prevent erosion.
- caroches — Plural form of caroche.
- caschrom — a wooden hand-plough used to till the ground in the northwest of Scotland
- cash cow — In business, a cash cow is a product or investment that steadily continues to be profitable.
- cash mob — a group of people coordinated to meet and spend money at a local, independent business at a particular time
- cash out — cash in1 (sense 1)
- cash-out — Also, cashout. a direct cash payment or a cash profit or remainder: The store owner lived on a cash-out of fifty dollars a day.
- cashbook — a book in which all receipts and payments of money are entered
- cashflow — Of or pertaining to a cash flow.
- castilho — Antonio Feliciano de [ahn-taw-n-yoo fuh-lees-yah-noo] /ɑ̃ˈtɔˈn yu fə lisˈyɑ nu/ (Show IPA), 1800–75, Portuguese poet.
- cathodes — Plural form of cathode.