8-letter words containing a, n, h, r
- coanchor — to be one of the copresenters of (a television news programme)
- coranach — Alternative form of coronach.
- coronach — a dirge or lamentation for the dead
- crankish — mildly eccentric
- crashing — (intensifier) (esp in the phrase a crashing bore)
- crenshaw — a hybrid variety of melon with yellow skin and pale pink flesh
- 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)
- darshana — any of the six principal systems of philosophy.
- dinarchy — duarchy.
- earphone — a sound receiver that fits in or over the ear, as of a radio or telephone.
- 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.
- earthnut — any of various roots, tubers, or underground growths, as the peanut and the truffle.
- echiuran — spoonworm
- encharge — (obsolete, transitive) To give to somebody as a charge; to entrust with a duty or task.
- encroach — Intrude on (a person's territory or a thing considered to be a right).
- endarchy — a central government
- enhancer — Something that enhances.
- enhearse — to put into a hearse, to bury
- enravish — to enchant
- enthrall — Capture the fascinated attention of.
- enthrals — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enthral.
- enwreath — Misspelling of enwreathe.
- ethnarch — (historical, Ancient Greece) The governor of a province or people.
- farmhand — a person who works on a farm, especially a hired worker; hired hand.
- farthing — a former bronze coin of Great Britain, equal to one-fourth of a British penny: withdrawn in 1961.
- fernshaw — a thicket of ferns
- 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).
- franchot — a male given name, form of Francis.
- frankish — of or relating to the Franks.
- 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.
- gandhara — an ancient region in what is now NW Pakistan.
- genearch — a chief of a family or tribe.
- gnashers — Plural form of gnasher.
- grantham — a town in E England, in Lincolnshire: birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton and Margaret Thatcher. Pop: 34 592 (2001)
- graphene — A fullerene consisting of bonded carbon atoms in sheet form one atom thick.
- graphing — Present participle of graph.
- 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.
- groaneth — Archaic third-person singular form of groan.
- 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.
- hadronic — (physics) of, related to, or composed of hadrons.
- hair net — a cap of loose net, as of silk or nylon, for holding the hair in place.
- hairband — A band for securing or tying back one's hair.
- hairline — a very slender line.
- hairnets — Plural form of hairnet.