8-letter words that end in h
- outworth — to be more valuable than
- overarch — to span with or like an arch: A new bridge overarches the river.
- overfish — to fish (an area) excessively; to exhaust the supply of usable fish in (certain waters): Scientists are concerned that fishing boats may overfish our coastal waters.
- overhigh — too high
- overlush — excessively lush
- overmuch — If something happens overmuch, it happens too much or very much.
- overrash — too rash
- overrich — having wealth or great possessions; abundantly supplied with resources, means, or funds; wealthy: a rich man; a rich nation.
- overwash — the act of washing over something
- padishah — (often initial capital letter) great king; emperor (a title applied especially formerly to the shah of Iran, the sultan of Turkey, and to the British sovereign as emperor in India).
- parashah — a portion of the Torah chanted or read each week in the synagogue on the Sabbath.
- peamouth — a minnow, Mylocheilus caurinus, of northwestern U.S. and British Columbian waters.
- pearlash — commercial potassium carbonate.
- penneech — a card game in which the seven of diamonds is the highest card and the trump suit changes with each trick
- pentarch — a government by five persons.
- perianth — the envelope of a flower, whether calyx or corolla or both.
- petrarch — (Francesco Petrarca) 1304–74, Italian poet and scholar.
- phylarch — the chief of a tribe in Ancient Greece, and in Athens, the head of a clan in battle, or generally, the chief of a tribe
- pie dish — a shallow dish that you cook pies in
- pipefish — any elongated, marine and sometimes freshwater fish species of the family Syngnathidae, having a tubular snout and covered with bony plates.
- pisolith — a pea-size calcareous concretion, larger than an oolith, aggregates of which constitute a pisolite.
- pixieish — a fairy or sprite, especially a mischievous one.
- plainish — rather ordinary-looking
- play-doh — Play-Doh is a soft coloured substance like clay which children use for making models.
- plumpish — somewhat plump; tending to plumpness.
- plutarch — a.d. c46–c120, Greek biographer.
- plymouth — an island in the Leeward Islands, in the SE West Indies: a British crown colony. 39½ sq. mi. (102 sq. km). Capital: Plymouth.
- pokerish — resembling a poker in stiffness
- polglish — informal Polish containing a high proportion of words of English origin
- polyarch — (of a woody tissue) having multiple points of origin
- polygoth — (language) A distributed language integrating classes with a parallel block structure, including multiprocedures and fragments.
- polymath — a person of great learning in several fields of study; polyhistor.
- pooh bah — a person who holds several positions, especially ones that give him or her bureaucratic importance.
- pooh-bah — a person who holds several positions, especially ones that give him or her bureaucratic importance.
- porkfish — a black and gold grunt, Anisotremus virginicus, of West Indian waters.
- pot arch — an auxiliary furnace in which pots used in melting frit are preheated.
- potlatch — (among American Indians of the northern Pacific coast, especially the Kwakiutl) a ceremonial festival at which gifts are bestowed on the guests and property is destroyed by its owner in a show of wealth that the guests later attempt to surpass.
- prankish — of the nature of a prank: a prankish plan.
- prebirth — the period, usually six months, preceding a child's birth.
- precrash — of or pertaining to the period before a crash, esp of a motor vehicle; coming into effect or being deployed prior to a crash
- predeath — occurring before or in the lead-up to death; of or pertaining to the period immediately prior to death
- prefetch — instruction prefetch
- prelunch — of or relating to the period before lunch
- prepunch — to pierce with holes in advance
- preweigh — to weigh beforehand
- priggish — a person who displays or demands of others pointlessly precise conformity, fussiness about trivialities, or exaggerated propriety, especially in a self-righteous or irritating manner.
- prograph — (language) A visual dataflow programming language and environment from the Technical University of Halifax. Prograph is an entirely graphical visual programming language, other than for the text of method names, and supports the program development process in a highly-interactive fashion. Operation icons are connected by data links through which information flows. It supports object orientation via class-based data abstraction with single inheritance. Prograph is available for the Macintosh, and soon for Windows and Unix, from TGS Systems.
- proudish — rather proud
- prowfish — a fish, Zaprora silenus, of the North Pacific.
- pseudish — pretentious