8-letter words containing a, h, r
- forehand — (in tennis, squash, etc.) of, relating to, or noting a stroke made from the same side of the body as that of the hand holding the racket, paddle, etc. Compare backhand (def 5).
- forehead — the part of the face above the eyebrows; brow.
- forhaile — to distress
- forkhead — the head of an arrow
- fortrash — (abuse, language) /for'trash/ Hackerism for the Fortran language, referring to its primitive design, gross and irregular syntax, limited control constructs, and slippery, exception-filled semantics.
- frailish — reasonably frail
- franchot — a male given name, form of Francis.
- frankish — of or relating to the Franks.
- fraughts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fraught.
- fravashi — the soul of a dead ancestor.
- freakish — queer; odd; unusual; grotesque: a freakish appearance.
- freehand — drawn or executed by hand without guiding instruments, measurements, or other aids: a freehand map.
- freshman — a student in the first year of the course at a university, college, or high school.
- fujayrah — Al-, one of the United Arab Emirates, on the Gulf of Oman.
- gandhara — an ancient region in what is now NW Pakistan.
- garishly — crudely or tastelessly colorful, showy, or elaborate, as clothes or decoration.
- gathered — Simple past tense and past participle of gather.
- gatherer — to bring together into one group, collection, or place: to gather firewood; to gather the troops.
- gearhead — A mechanical device used to increase the torque of gears.
- genearch — a chief of a family or tribe.
- ghaghara — a river in SW Tibet, Nepal, and N India, flowing S and SE to the Ganges River. 640 miles (1030 km) long.
- ghardaia — a city in N Algeria.
- gharials — Plural form of gharial.
- gheraoed — Simple past tense and past participle of gherao.
- gheraoes — Plural form of gherao.
- gnashers — Plural form of gnasher.
- goatherd — a person who tends goats.
- gomorrah — Also, Douay Bible, Gomorrha. an ancient city destroyed, with Sodom, because of its wickedness. Gen. 19:24, 25.
- gracchus — Gaius Sempronius [gey-uh s sem-proh-nee-uh s] /ˈgeɪ əs sɛmˈproʊ ni əs/ (Show IPA), 153–121 b.c, and his brother, Tiberius Sempronius [tahy-beer-ee-uh s] /taɪˈbɪər i əs/ (Show IPA) 163–133 b.c., Roman reformers and orators.
- graithly — in a graith manner
- gralloch — the entrails of a deer
- grantham — a town in E England, in Lincolnshire: birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton and Margaret Thatcher. Pop: 34 592 (2001)
- grapheme — a minimal unit of a writing system.
- graphene — A fullerene consisting of bonded carbon atoms in sheet form one atom thick.
- graphics — a product of the graphic arts, as a drawing or print.
- graphing — Present participle of graph.
- graphite — a very common mineral, soft native carbon, occurring in black to dark-gray foliated masses, with metallic luster and greasy feel: used for pencil leads, as a lubricant, and for making crucibles and other refractories; plumbago; black lead.
- graphium — a writing stylus
- gray hat — a hacker who violates the security of a system without true malicious intent but often without the prior knowledge or consent of the owner or developer, and who later reports system vulnerabilities to the authorities, sometimes for personal profit.
- grayfish — a name used in marketing for any of several American sharks, especially the dogfishes of the genus Squalus.
- grenache — a variety of grape used in winemaking, especially for table wines in the Rhône Valley of France and for a type of rosé in California.
- greyhead — a person with grey hair
- groaneth — Archaic third-person singular form of groan.
- guacharo — a nocturnal, fruit-eating, South American bird, Steatornis caripensis, the young of which yield an oil derived from their fat.
- guaracha — a vigorous Cuban dance in triple meter.
- gurkhali — the language of the Gurkhas, belonging to the Indic branch of the Indo-European family
- gynarchy — government by women.
- habanera — a dance of Cuban origin.
- habanero — an extremely pungent small pepper, the fruit of a variety of Capsicum chinense, used in cookery.
- habermas — Jürgen (ˈjyrɡən). born 1929, German social theorist: his chief works are Theory and Practice (1963) and Knowledge and Human Interests (1968)