8-letter words containing e, n, h, a, r
- redshank — an Old World sandpiper, Tringa totanus, having red legs and feet.
- rehandle — to handle again
- reharden — to make or become hard again
- relaunch — an act or instance of launching something again.
- revanche — the policy of a state intent on regaining areas of its original territory that have been lost to other states as a result of war, a treaty signed under duress, etc.
- rhaetian — of or relating to Rhaetia.
- rhamnose — deoxymannose; a deoxy hexose sugar, C 6 H 1 2 O 5 , that is an important component of the polysaccharides of plant cell walls.
- rheingau — a small wine-growing region in Hesse, in central Germany, on the Rhine.
- rinehart — Mary Roberts, 1876–1958, U.S. novelist and playwright.
- rondache — a small, round shield
- ruthenia — a former province in E Czechoslovakia.
- seraphin — a silver coin which formed the principal currency of Goa in the 16th century
- shagreen — an untanned leather with a granular surface, prepared from the hide of a horse, shark, seal, etc.
- share in — receive part of
- shareman — a member of a fishing-boat crew who shares profits with the boat's owner in lieu of wages
- sharleen — a female given name.
- shearing — Usually, shears. (sometimes used with a singular verb) scissors of large size (usually used with pair of). any of various other cutting implements or machines having two blades that resemble or suggest those of scissors.
- shearman — a person whose occupation it is to trim or shear cloth
- sheraton — Thomas, 1751–1806, English cabinetmaker and furniture designer.
- sheridan — Philip Henry, 1831–88, Union general in the Civil War.
- sherwani — a long coat closed up to the neck, worn by men in India
- shireman — a sheriff
- shoreman — a person who lives on the shore
- shrapnel — Military. a hollow projectile containing bullets or the like and a bursting charge, designed to explode before reaching the target, and to set free a shower of missiles. such projectiles collectively.
- snatcher — to make a sudden effort to seize something, as with the hand; grab (usually followed by at).
- stancher — staunch2 .
- swanherd — a person who tends swans.
- tarwhine — a bream, Rhabdosargus sarba, of E Australia, silver in colour with gold streaks
- threaden — relating to something that is composed of or made of thread
- threaten — to utter a threat against; menace: He threatened the boy with a beating.
- traherne — Thomas, 1637?–74, English writer.
- tranched — Finance. one part or division of a larger unit, as of an asset pool or investment: The loan will be repaid in three tranches. a group of securities that share a certain characteristic and form part of a larger offering: The second tranche of the bond issue has a five-year maturity.
- tranchet — a stone implement with a horizontal, chisellike cutting edge, found at Mesolithic and Neolithic sites in macrolithic form, used as an adz, and in microlithic form, often mounted as the cutting head of an arrow.
- unarched — (of a structure) not arched; lacking arches
- uncharge — to acquit.
- unhairer — an instrument for removing hair
- unharmed — physical injury or mental damage; hurt: to do him bodily harm.
- unhearse — to remove from a hearse
- unpreach — to retract or undo (preaching)
- unshared — not shared
- unthread — to draw out or take out the thread from: to unthread a sewing machine.
- urethane — any derivative of carbamic acid having the formula CH 2 NO 2 R.
- vacherin — a soft French or Swiss cheese made from cows' milk
- verandah — Also, verandah. Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a large, open porch, usually roofed and partly enclosed, as by a railing, often extending across the front and sides of a house; gallery.
- waterhen — An aquatic rail, especially a moorhen or related bird.
- wharenui — An ornamental Maori meeting house representing the body of a tupuna, forming part of the larger marae complex.
- wreathen — Twisted; made into a wreath.
- yearneth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of yearn.