8-letter words containing e, s, h, r
- the revs — engine speed, measured in revolutions per minute
- the runs — diarrhoea
- theories — a coherent group of tested general propositions, commonly regarded as correct, that can be used as principles of explanation and prediction for a class of phenomena: Einstein's theory of relativity. Synonyms: principle, law, doctrine.
- theorise — to form a theory or theories.
- theorist — a person who theorizes.
- thermals — Also, thermic. of, relating to, or caused by heat or temperature: thermal capacity.
- thesiger — Wilfred (Patrick). 1910–2003, British writer, who explored the Empty Quarter of Arabia (1945–50) and lived with the Iraqi marsh Arabs (1950–58). His books include Arabian Sands (1958), The Marsh Arabs (1964), and My Kenya Days (1994)
- thirties — a cardinal number, 10 times 3.
- thoraces — Anatomy. the part of the trunk in humans and higher vertebrates between the neck and the abdomen, containing the cavity, enclosed by the ribs, sternum, and certain vertebrae, in which the heart, lungs, etc., are situated; chest.
- thornset — set with thorns
- thrashed — to beat soundly in punishment; flog.
- thrasher — a person or thing that thrashes.
- three rs — When talking about children's education, the three Rs are the basic skills of reading, writing, and arithmetic.
- threshel — a flail or a tool for threshing corn
- thresher — a person or thing that threshes.
- thrivers — to prosper; be fortunate or successful.
- throstle — British (chiefly Literary) . the song thrush.
- thruster — a person or thing that thrusts.
- tigerish — tigerlike, as in strength, fierceness, courage, or coloration.
- treefish — a rockfish, Sebastes serriceps, of waters off southern California, marked with black bands.
- treeship — the existence of a tree
- trenches — Fortification. a long, narrow excavation in the ground, the earth from which is thrown up in front to serve as a shelter from enemy fire or attack.
- triphase — operating in three phases
- troches' — a small tablet or lozenge, usually a circular one, made of medicinal substance worked into a paste with sugar and mucilage or the like, and dried.
- trophesy — a condition caused by a disorder of the nerves relating to nutrition
- tyrrheus — a shepherd. The killing of his tame stag by Ascanius was a cause of the war between Aeneas' Trojans and the people of Latium.
- unhearse — to remove from a hearse
- unkosher — Judaism. fit or allowed to be eaten or used, according to the dietary or ceremonial laws: kosher meat; kosher dishes; a kosher tallith. adhering to the laws governing such fitness: a kosher restaurant.
- unrushed — unhurried
- unshared — not shared
- unsphere — to remove from its or one's sphere; displace.
- usher in — escort inside
- warheads — Plural form of warhead.
- warhorse — a horse used in war; charger.
- watchers — Plural form of watcher.
- waterish — somewhat, or tending to be, watery.
- weathers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of weather.
- weighers — Plural form of weigher.
- wharves' — a structure built on the shore of or projecting into a harbor, stream, etc., so that vessels may be moored alongside to load or unload or to lie at rest; quay; pier.
- wheelers — Plural form of wheeler.
- wherries — Plural form of wherry.
- whimpers — Plural form of whimper.
- whingers — Plural form of whinger.
- whippers — Plural form of whipper.
- whipster — (informal, dated) a scholastic often pedantic person, wise guy.
- whiskers — whiskers, a beard.
- whiskery — whiskers, a beard.
- whispers — Plural form of whisper.
- whispery — like a whisper: a soft, whispery voice.
- whistler — James (Abbott) McNeill [muh k-neel] /məkˈnil/ (Show IPA), 1834–1903, U.S. painter and etcher, in France and England after 1855.