8-letter words containing u, n, h
- lutheran — of or relating to Luther, adhering to his doctrines, or belonging to one of the Protestant churches that bear his name.
- man-hour — a man who is honored by a group.
- manhours — Plural form of manhour.
- manhunts — Plural form of manhunt.
- manuhiri — a visitor to a Māori marae
- metuchen — a city in NE New Jersey.
- minshuku — a guesthouse
- molehunt — a hunt for moles
- monmouth — James Scott, Duke of, 1649–85, illegitimate son of Charles II of England and pretender to the throne of James II.
- monohull — (of a vessel) having a single hull.
- mouching — to borrow (a small item or amount) without intending to return or repay it.
- mouthing — the action of speaking in a meaningless, bombastic, or hypocritical manner.
- muchness — Archaic. greatness, as in quantity, measure, or degree.
- muishond — A species of weasel found in southern Africa, Poecilogale albinucha.
- mulching — (agriculture) Used for applying a mulch.
- mulhacen — a mountain in S Spain: the highest peak in Spain. 11,411 feet (3478 meters).
- munchies — crunchy or chewy. Informal. for snacking: munchy foods like popcorn and cookies.
- munching — to chew with steady or vigorous working of the jaws, often audibly.
- munchkin — a small person, especially one who is dwarfish or elfin in appearance.
- murrhine — of, relating to, or manufactured of murra.
- mutchkin — Scot. a unit of liquid measure equal to a little less than a U.S. liquid pint.
- naughtly — (obsolete) naughtily; wrongly.
- naumachy — naumachia.
- nautches — Plural form of nautch.
- nenuphar — A water lily, especially the European white water lily (Nymphaea alba) or the yellow water lily (Nuphar lutea).
- new chum — a recent British immigrant
- newburgh — a city in SE New York, on the Hudson.
- newhouse — Samuel I(rving) 1895–1979, U.S. publisher.
- nihonium — a highly radioactive element, of which only a few atoms have ever been produced. Symbol: Nh; atomic no: 113; atomic wt: 286
- nishapur — a town in NE Iran: the birthplace of Omar Khayyám.
- nonesuch — a person or thing without equal; paragon.
- nonhuman — not human.
- noonhour — the hour between 12 noon and 1 p.m.
- northrup — a male given name.
- northumb — Northumberland
- not much — very little
- notch up — make score marks to count
- nu thena — A software vendor specialising in rapid prototyping tools for real-time hardware and software systems and collaborating with DAZIX.
- nucflash — a report of highest precedence notifying the president, secretary of defense, or their deputies of an accidental or unauthorized nuclear-weapon launch or of a nuclear attack.
- numbfish — an electric ray, so called from its power of numbing its prey by means of electric shocks.
- nunchaku — Sometimes, nunchakus. a Japanese hand weapon for defense against frontal assault, consisting of two foot-long hardwood sticks joined by a chain or thick cord that stretches to body width.
- nuncheon — (now dialectal, archaic) A drink or light snack taken in the afternoon; a refreshment between meals.
- nunchuck — Alternative form of nunchaku.
- nuraghic — relating to the Bronze Age Sardinian civilization that is distinguished by nuraghe
- nurhachi — 1559–1626, Manchurian leader, who unified the Manchurian state and began (1618) the Manchurian conquest of China
- nut dash — a dash equal in length to the width of an en quad; en dash.
- nuthatch — any of numerous small, short-tailed, sharp-beaked birds of the family Sittidae that creep on trees and feed on small nuts and insects.
- nuthouse — a mental hospital; insane asylum.
- nutshell — the shell of a nut.
- olynthus — an ancient city in NE Greece, on the Chalcidice Peninsula.