8-letter words containing y, o, h
- ho-daddy — one who engages in the sport of surfing or, esp., one who spends much time on beaches with surfers for vicarious excitement
- hoarsely — having a vocal tone characterized by weakness of intensity and excessive breathiness; husky: the hoarse voice of the auctioneer.
- hobbyism — the practice of pursuing a hobby
- hobbyist — an activity or interest pursued for pleasure or relaxation and not as a main occupation: Her hobbies include stamp-collecting and woodcarving.
- hobnobby — tending to hobnob or characterized by hobnobbing
- hodology — The study of pathways.
- hogmanay — the eve of New Year's Day.
- hogmolly — hog sucker.
- hogtying — to tie (an animal) with all four feet together.
- hoistway — a shaft for a hoist or a lift
- holarchy — a system composed of interacting holons
- holiatry — holism (def 2).
- holidays — Plural form of holiday.
- holliday — Judith Tuvim ("Judy") 1921–65, U.S. comic actress.
- hollowly — having a space or cavity inside; not solid; empty: a hollow sphere.
- hologamy — a type of reproduction in which the gametes are like ordinary cells in form and size, as is found in some algae and protozoa
- hologyny — the inheritance of genetic traits through females only
- holonymy — (countable, semantics) A semantic relation that exists between a term denoting a whole (the holonym) and a term denoting a part that pertains to the whole (the meronym).
- holotype — the type specimen used in the original description of a species.
- holy ark — a cabinet in a synagogue set into or against the wall that faces eastward toward Jerusalem, for keeping the scrolls of the Torah.
- holy cow — astonishment
- holy day — a consecrated day or religious festival, especially one other than Sunday.
- holy joe — a chaplain, especially in the U.S. armed forces.
- holy man — priest, spiritual leader
- holy oil — consecrated oil; chrism.
- holy one — God. Isa. 10:20.
- holy see — Roman Catholic Church. the see of Rome; the office or jurisdiction of the pope.
- holy war — a war waged for what is supposed or proclaimed to be a holy purpose, as the defense of faith.
- holyhead — a seaport on Holy Island in NW Wales.
- holyness — Alternative spelling of holiness.
- holyoake — Sir Keith Jacka [jak-uh] /ˈdʒæk ə/ (Show IPA), 1904–83, New Zealand political leader: prime minister 1957, 1960–72; governor general 1977–80.
- holyrood — the cross on which Jesus died.
- holytide — a time of religious observances.
- home boy — a person from the same locality as oneself.
- home key — See under home row.
- homebody — a person who prefers pleasures and activities that center around the home; stay-at-home.
- homeboys — Plural form of homeboy.
- homelily — in a homely manner
- homestay — housing accommodations in a home with a family in residence, as for a student or traveler: Foreign-exchange students can choose between a homestay or campus dormitory.
- homodyne — of or relating to reception by a device that generates a varying voltage of the same or nearly the same frequency as the incoming carrier wave and combines it with the incoming signal for detection.
- homogamy — the state of being homogamous.
- homogeny — correspondence in form or structure, owing to a common origin.
- homogony — state of being homogonous.
- homology — the state of being homologous; homologous relation or correspondence.
- homonyms — Phonetics. a word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning, whether spelled the same way or not, as heir and air; a homophone (def 1).
- homonymy — homonymous state.
- homotony — the condition of being homotonic
- homotopy — the relation that exists between two mappings in a topological space if one mapping can be deformed in a continuous way to make it coincide with the other.
- homotype — an organ or part having a structure similar to that of another organ or part; homologue.
- honestly — in an honest manner.