8-letter words containing a, h, r
- dahlgren — John Adelphus Bernard, 1809–70, U.S. naval officer and inventor.
- damanhur — a city in NE Egypt, in the Nile delta. Pop: 229 000 (2005 est)
- damrosch — Walter (Johannes)1862-1950; U.S. conductor & composer, born in Germany
- darshana — any of the six principal systems of philosophy.
- dassehra — an annual Hindu festival celebrated on the 10th lunar day of Navaratri; images of the goddess Durga are immersed in water
- daughter — Someone's daughter is their female child.
- demarche — move, step, or manoeuvre, esp in diplomatic affairs
- detacher — One who or that which detaches.
- diagraph — a device for enlarging or reducing maps, plans, etc
- diarchal — Relating to, or pertaining to, diarchy or a diarchy system.
- diarrhea — If someone has diarrhea, a lot of liquid feces comes out of their body because they are ill.
- didrachm — (in ancient Greece) a silver coin worth two drachmas
- die hard — If you say that habits or attitudes die hard, you mean that they take a very long time to disappear or change, so that it may not be possible to get rid of them completely.
- die-hard — a person who vigorously maintains or defends a seemingly hopeless position, outdated attitude, lost cause, or the like.
- diehards — Plural form of diehard.
- digraphs — Plural form of digraph.
- dihedral — having or formed by two planes.
- dinarchy — duarchy.
- disheart — Obsolete form of dishearten.
- dishoard — to put previously withheld (money) into circulation
- dishrags — Plural form of dishrag.
- dishware — dishes used for food; tableware.
- dorothea — a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “gift of God.”.
- dpsather — Data-parallel Sather. deterministic fine-grained parallelism. E-mail: <[email protected]>. ftp://lynx.csis.dit.csiro.au/p/pub/ather/dpsather.papers.
- drabbish — Somewhat drab in colour.
- drachmas — Plural form of drachma.
- draffish — resembling draff
- drammach — an uncooked mixture of meal, usually oatmeal, and cold water.
- dramshop — bar; barroom; saloon.
- draughts — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- draughty — characterized by or admitting currents of air, usually uncomfortable.
- drawhole — a funnel-shaped vertical opening cut at the bottom of a stope, which permits the loading of ore into conveyances in the passageways below.
- drogheda — a seaport in the NE Republic of Ireland, near the mouth of the Boyne River: the town was captured by Cromwell in 1649 and its garrisons as well as many male inhabitants put to the sword.
- drophead — (British) Shortened form of 'drophead coupé'.
- drumhead — the membrane stretched upon a drum.
- dry wash — clothes, curtains, etc., washed and dried but not yet ironed. Compare wet wash.
- dwarfish — like a dwarf, especially in being abnormally small; diminutive.
- dwarvish — Synonym of dwarfish.
- dyschroa — an alteration of colour on the skin
- earaches — Plural form of earache.
- earholes — Plural form of earhole.
- earlship — earldom (def 1).
- earphone — a sound receiver that fits in or over the ear, as of a radio or telephone.
- earreach — earshot.
- earth up — to cover (part of a plant, esp the stem) with soil in order to protect from frost, light, etc
- earthier — Comparative form of earthy.
- earthily — In an earthy manner.
- earthing — (often initial capital letter) the planet third in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,755 km) and a polar diameter of 7900 miles (12,714 km), a mean distance from the sun of 92.9 million miles (149.6 million km), and a period of revolution of 365.26 days, and having one satellite.
- earthman — a human inhabitant or native of the planet Earth.
- earthmen — Plural form of earthman.