8-letter words containing w, h, n
- hoodwink — to deceive or trick.
- hornwork — A type of fortification consisting of a pair of demi-bastions with a curtain wall connecting them and with two long sides directed upon the faces of the bastions, or ravelins of the inner fortifications, so as to be defended by them.
- hornworm — the larva of any of several hawk moths, having a hornlike process at the rear of the abdomen.
- hornwort — any aquatic plant of the genus Ceratophyllum, found in ponds and slow streams.
- hounslow — a borough of Greater London, England.
- how now? — what is the meaning of this?
- howdunit — A type of detective story in which the focus is not on who committed the crime, but how they have done so.
- howlings — Plural form of howling.
- hueytown — a town in central Alabama.
- huntaway — a sheep dog.
- hwang ho — Older Spelling. Huang He.
- inchworm — measuringworm.
- ingrowth — growth inward.
- john law — Andrew Bonar [bon-er] /ˈbɒn ər/ (Show IPA), 1858–1923, English statesman, born in Canada: prime minister 1922–23.
- kingchow — former name of Jiangling.
- know-how — the fact or state of knowing; knowledge.
- landwash — the foreshore, especially that part between high and low tidemarks.
- landwehr — (in Germany, Austria, etc.) the part of the organized military forces of a nation that has completed a certain amount of compulsory training, and whose continuous service is required only in time of war.
- law-hand — a style of handwriting used in old legal documents, especially in England.
- lewisohn — Ludwig [luhd-wig] /ˈlʌd wɪg/ (Show IPA), 1882?–1955, U.S. novelist and critic, born in Germany.
- manwhore — (slang) A man who sells his body for money; a male prostitute.
- narwhals — Plural form of narwhal.
- new chum — a recent British immigrant
- new hope — a town in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- new math — a unified, sequential system of teaching arithmetic and mathematics in accord with set theory so as to reveal basic concepts: used in some U.S. schools, especially in the 1960s and 1970s.
- new-rich — newly or suddenly wealthy.
- newburgh — a city in SE New York, on the Hudson.
- newhaven — a seaport in S Connecticut, on Long Island Sound.
- newhouse — Samuel I(rving) 1895–1979, U.S. publisher.
- newshawk — a newspaper reporter, especially one who is energetic and aggressive.
- newshole — Alternative form of news hole.
- nightowl — a person who often stays up late at night; nighthawk.
- no throw — an illegal throw in a sport such as the discus or shot put
- nohowish — lacking distinctiveness
- nonwhite — a sociocultural classification of modern humans with darker pigmentation of the skin than is characteristic in people of European descent.
- now that — at the present time or moment: You are now using a dictionary.
- now then — used to preface an important remark, the next step in an argument, etc
- nowhence — from no place; from nowhere
- nowheres — in or at no place; not anywhere: The missing pen was nowhere to be found.
- on watch — If someone is on watch, they have the job of carefully looking and listening, often while other people are asleep and often as a military duty, so that they can warn them of danger or an attack.
- pawnshop — the shop of a pawnbroker, especially one where unredeemed items are displayed and sold.
- pinwheel — a child's toy consisting of a wheel or leaflike curls of paper or plastic loosely attached by a pin to a stick, designed to revolve when blown by or as by the wind.
- powhatan — a member of any of the Indian tribes belonging to the Powhatan Confederacy.
- pushdown — a list in which the last item added is at the top
- rainwash — material eroded or swept away by rain.
- run with — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- sandwich — a town in E Kent, in SE England: one of the Cinque Ports.
- say when — to state when an action is to be stopped or begun, as when someone is pouring a drink
- schwaben — German name of Swabia.
- schwerin — a state in NE Germany. 8842 sq. mi. (22,900 sq. km). Capital: Schwerin.