8-letter words containing y, o, h
- honeybee — any bee that collects and stores honey, especially Apis mellifera.
- honeybun — A type of bun or pastry sweetened with honey.
- honeydew — honeydew melon.
- honeyful — full of honey
- honeying — Present participle of honey.
- honeypot — a pot, as of glass or silver, for storing and serving honey.
- honorary — given for honor only, without the usual requirements, duties, privileges, emoluments, etc.: The university presented the new governor with an honorary degree.
- hoorayed — Simple past tense and past participle of hooray.
- hopingly — in a hopeful manner
- horn fly — a small bloodsucking fly, Haematobia irritans, that is a pest, especially of cattle.
- horology — the art or science of making timepieces or of measuring time.
- horribly — causing or tending to cause horror; shockingly dreadful: a horrible sight.
- horridly — such as to cause horror; shockingly dreadful; abominable.
- horsefly — any bloodsucking, usually large fly of the family Tabanidae, especially of the genus Tabanus, a serious pest of horses, cattle, etc.
- horseway — a bridleway
- hostelry — an inn or hotel.
- houseboy — houseman (def 1).
- housefly — a medium-sized, gray-striped fly, Musca domestica, common around human habitations in nearly all parts of the world.
- hoverfly — Any of various flies from the family Syrphidae that hover in the air and feed on the nectar of flowers.
- huancayo — a city in central Peru, on the Mantaro River.
- hueytown — a town in central Alabama.
- hummocky — Also, hammock. an elevated tract of land rising above the general level of a marshy region.
- hyalogen — any of several insoluble substances found in many animal structures such as cartilage which yield sugars on hydrolysis structures
- hydatoid — watery; resembling water; transparent
- hydrator — something that hydrates.
- hydrogel — a gel whose liquid constituent is water.
- hydrogen — a colorless, odorless, flammable gas that combines chemically with oxygen to form water: the lightest of the known elements. Symbol: H; atomic weight: 1.00797; atomic number: 1; density: 0.0899 g/l at 0°C and 760 mm pressure.
- hydroids — Plural form of hydroid.
- hydrolat — An aromatic hydrosol, especially one made by steam distillation of a plant extract.
- hydromel — a liquor consisting of honey and water that, when fermented, becomes mead.
- hydronic — of or relating to a heating system for a building in which the medium for carrying heat throughout the structure is circulating water, especially when the circulation is aided by a pump.
- hydropac — an urgent warning of navigational dangers in the Pacific Ocean, issued by the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office.
- hydropic — dropsical.
- hydropsy — (formerly) edema.
- hydroski — a hydrofoil attached to a seaplane to aid in takeoffs and landings.
- hydrosol — a colloidal suspension in water.
- hydroxy- — (in chemical compounds) indicating the presence of one or more hydroxyl groups or ions
- hydroxyl — containing the hydroxyl group.
- hydrozoa — (biology) a large group of marine animals, of the class Hydrozoa, whose life cycles contain a sexual and asexual stage.
- hylobate — Any of the genus Hylobates of gibbons.
- hymnbook — (British) A book containing a collection of hymns.
- hyoidean — Also, hyoidal, hyoidean. noting or pertaining to a U -shaped bone at the root of the tongue in humans, or a corresponding bone or collection of bones in animals.
- hyoscine — scopolamine.
- hypergol — any hypergolic agent.
- hyperion — Classical Mythology. a Titan, the father of Helios, Selene, and Eos.
- hyperons — Plural form of hyperon.
- hyperope — A farsighted person, a hyperopic person, a person with hyperopia.
- hypnoses — the ancient Greek god of sleep.
- hypnosis — an artificially induced trance state resembling sleep, characterized by heightened susceptibility to suggestion.
- hypnotee — a person being hypnotized