8-letter words containing s, i, n, h
- monkfish — angler (def 3).
- moonfish — Also called horsefish, horsehead. any of several silvery marine fishes of the genus Selene, having a very compressed body and inhabiting shallow coastal waters.
- moonship — a lunar module
- muishond — A species of weasel found in southern Africa, Poecilogale albinucha.
- munchies — crunchy or chewy. Informal. for snacking: munchy foods like popcorn and cookies.
- naismith — James, 1861–1939, U.S. physical-education teacher and originator of basketball, born in Canada.
- nannyish — Like a nanny; tending to coddle.
- nebbishy — a pitifully ineffectual, luckless, and timid person.
- nephrism — chronic kidney disease, renal failure
- niarchos — Stavros Spyros [stahv-raws spee-raws] /ˈstɑv rɔs ˈspi rɔs/ (Show IPA), 1909–1996, Greek businessman and shipowner.
- nicholas — (Thomas Parentucelli) 1397?–1455, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1447–55.
- nighness — The quality or state of being nigh, or near.
- nighters — Plural form of nighter.
- nighties — Plural form of nightie.
- nihilism — total rejection of established laws and institutions.
- nihilist — total rejection of established laws and institutions.
- ninnyish — Silly; foolish.
- nishapur — a town in NE Iran: the birthplace of Omar Khayyám.
- nohowish — lacking distinctiveness
- nosherei — food for snacking or noshing.
- 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
- numbfish — an electric ray, so called from its power of numbing its prey by means of electric shocks.
- on sight — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- orangish — resembling or suggesting an orange, as in taste, appearance, or color: decorated with orangy-pink flowers.
- ornithes — birds considered collectively
- ourinhos — a city in E Brazil.
- outshine — to surpass in shining; shine more brightly than.
- parishen — a parishioner
- pashmina — a fabric or garment made from pashm, especially a shawl, wrap, or scarf.
- pershing — a 38-foot (12 meters) U.S. Army surface-to-surface nuclear missile with a single warhead and range of more than 1000 miles (1609 km).
- phase in — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- phase-in — an act or instance of phasing in; gradual introduction or implementation.
- phishing — to try to obtain financial or other confidential information from Internet users, typically by sending an email that looks as if it is from a legitimate organization, usually a financial institution, but contains a link to a fake website that replicates the real one.
- phoniest — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
- phrasing — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- phrenism — one of the three vital forces, which are non-physical life forces. Phrenism is the thought force, as opposed to neurism, the nerve force, and bathmism, the growth force.
- pinchers — a gripping tool consisting of two pivoted limbs forming a pair of jaws and a pair of handles (usually used with pair of).
- pinscher — one of a group of related dogs including the Doberman pinscher, miniature pinscher, and affenpinscher.
- plainish — rather ordinary-looking
- plashing — a gentle splash.
- prankish — of the nature of a prank: a prankish plan.
- psyching — psych1 .
- punisher — to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault: to punish a criminal.
- quashing — Present participle of quash.
- rainwash — material eroded or swept away by rain.
- refinish — to give a new surface to (wood, furniture, etc.).
- rhinitis — inflammation of the nose or its mucous membrane.
- richness — having wealth or great possessions; abundantly supplied with resources, means, or funds; wealthy: a rich man; a rich nation.
- ringhals — a highly venomous snake, Hemachatus haemachatus, of southern Africa, related to the cobras, having one to three light-colored bands across its throat and characterized by its ability to accurately spit its venom up to 7 feet (2.1 meter) away.