8-letter words containing e, n, s, h, r
- henryson — Robert. ?1430–?1506, Scottish poet. His works include Testament of Cresseid (1593), a sequel to Chaucer's Troilus and Cressida, the 13 Moral Fables of Esope the Phrygian, and the pastoral dialogue Robene and Makyne
- herdsman — a herder; the keeper of a herd, especially of cattle or sheep.
- herdsmen — Plural form of herdsman.
- hereness — The property of being here; existence, dasein.
- herisson — A beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot, used to block up a passage.
- hernshaw — a heron.
- heroines — Plural form of heroine.
- herrings — Plural form of herring.
- honester — Comparative form of honest.
- honorees — Plural form of honoree.
- hormones — Biochemistry. any of various internally secreted compounds, as insulin or thyroxine, formed in endocrine glands, that affect the functions of specifically receptive organs or tissues when transported to them by the body fluids.
- hornfels — a dark, fine-grained metamorphic rock, the result of recrystallization of siliceous or argillaceous sediments by contact metamorphism.
- hornless — one of the bony, permanent, hollow paired growths, often curved and pointed, that project from the upper part of the head of certain ungulate mammals, as cattle, sheep, goats, or antelopes.
- horseman — a person who is skilled in riding a horse.
- horsemen — Plural form of horseman.
- hortense — a female given name.
- hounders — one of any of several breeds of dogs trained to pursue game either by sight or by scent, especially one with a long face and large drooping ears.
- hundreds — a cardinal number, ten times ten.
- huntress — a woman who hunts.
- hyperons — Plural form of hyperon.
- inhalers — Plural form of inhaler.
- inhearse — (transitive) To place into, or as if into, a hearse or coffin.
- inherits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inherit.
- inrushes — Plural form of inrush.
- inshrine — enshrine.
- insphere — ensphere.
- iserlohn — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia,W Germany.
- leghorns — Plural form of leghorn.
- linisher — a machine that polishes and makes the surface of a material smooth using a moving belt coated in an abrasive material
- lynchers — to put to death, especially by hanging, by mob action and without legal authority.
- menorahs — Plural form of menorah.
- nephrism — chronic kidney disease, renal failure
- nephrons — Plural form of nephron.
- nighters — Plural form of nighter.
- northers — Plural form of norther.
- nosherei — food for snacking or noshing.
- nowheres — in or at no place; not anywhere: The missing pen was nowhere to be found.
- onrushes — Plural form of onrush.
- ornithes — birds considered collectively
- parishen — a parishioner
- pershing — a 38-foot (12 meters) U.S. Army surface-to-surface nuclear missile with a single warhead and range of more than 1000 miles (1609 km).
- phrenism — one of the three vital forces, which are non-physical life forces. Phrenism is the thought force, as opposed to neurism, the nerve force, and bathmism, the growth force.
- pinchers — a gripping tool consisting of two pivoted limbs forming a pair of jaws and a pair of handles (usually used with pair of).
- pinscher — one of a group of related dogs including the Doberman pinscher, miniature pinscher, and affenpinscher.
- punisher — to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault: to punish a criminal.
- rashness — acting or tending to act too hastily or without due consideration.
- redshank — an Old World sandpiper, Tringa totanus, having red legs and feet.
- refinish — to give a new surface to (wood, furniture, etc.).
- 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.
- richness — having wealth or great possessions; abundantly supplied with resources, means, or funds; wealthy: a rich man; a rich nation.