8-letter words containing ome
- homeless — without a home: a homeless child.
- homelier — Comparative form of homely.
- homelike — like or suggestive of home; familiar; warmly comfortable.
- homelily — in a homely manner
- homemade — made or prepared at home, locally, or by the maker's own efforts: The restaurant's pastry is homemade. Breakfast at the farmhouse always meant homemade preserves.
- homeobox — Any of a class of closely similar sequences that occur in various genes and are involved in regulating embryonic development in a wide range of species.
- homeosis — The replacement of part of one segment of an insect or other segmented animal by a structure characteristic of a different segment, especially through mutation.
- homeotic — Of or pertaining to homeosis.
- homepage — Alternative form of home page.
- homeport — The port where a vessel is based (not necessarily the one where it is registered).
- homering — Present participle of homer.
- homeroom — a classroom in which pupils in the same grade or division of a grade meet at certain times under the supervision of a teacher, who takes attendance and administers other school business.
- homesick — sad or depressed from a longing for home or family while away from them for a long time.
- homesite — a plot of land for a home.
- homespun — spun or made at home: homespun cloth.
- 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.
- hometime — The time when pupils go home at the end of the school day.
- hometown — the town or city in which a person lives or was born, or from which a person comes.
- homeward — Also, homewards. toward home.
- homeware — crockery, furniture, and furnishings with which a house, room, etc, is furnished
- homewood — a city in central Alabama, near Birmingham.
- homework — schoolwork assigned to be done outside the classroom (distinguished from classwork).
- how come — in what way or manner; by what means?: How did the accident happen?
- hydromel — a liquor consisting of honey and water that, when fermented, becomes mead.
- immoment — of no value
- incomers — Plural form of incomer.
- isomeric — of, relating to, or displaying isomerism.
- isometry — equality of measure.
- jerksome — Indicative of quick, rapid movements; jerky.Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. (1989).
- jokesome — Joky, humorous.
- khomeini — Ayatollah Ruhollah [roo-hoh-luh;; Persian roo-haw-lah] /ruˈhoʊ lə;; Persian ˌru hɔˈlɑ/ (Show IPA), 1900?–89, Islamic leader of Iran 1979–89.
- kingdome — Obsolete spelling of kingdom.
- komensky — Jan Amos [Czech yahn ah-maws] /Czech yɑn ˈɑ mɔs/ (Show IPA), Comenius, John Amos.
- kromesky — a croquette consisting of a piece of bacon wrapped round minced meat or fish
- laomedon — a king of Troy and the father of Priam, for whom the walls of Troy were built by Apollo and Poseidon.
- larksome — mischievous or fond of larking
- laywomen — a woman who is not a member of the clergy.
- lifesome — (poetic) animated; gay; lively; sprightly.
- liposome — Cell Biology. a microscopic artificial sac composed of fatty substances and used in experimental research of the cell.
- lonesome — depressed or sad because of the lack of friends, companionship, etc.; lonely: to feel lonesome.
- longsome — tiresomely long; so protracted as to weary or cause boredom.
- lovesome — inspiring love; lovely; lovable.
- lysosome — a cell organelle containing enzymes that digest particles and that disintegrate the cell after its death.
- madwomen — Plural form of madwoman.
- menopome — the hellbender, Cryptobranchus alleganiensis
- merwomen — Plural form of merwoman.
- mesomere — a blastomere of intermediate size between a micromere and a macromere.
- mesosome — the anterior portion of the abdomen in arachnids.
- misnomer — A wrong or inaccurate name or designation.
- momently — with every moment; from moment to moment.