8-letter words containing h, a, s, r
- sacchar- — saccharo-
- saharian — a desert in N Africa, extending from the Atlantic to the Nile valley. About 3,500,000 sq. mi. (9,065,000 sq. km).
- sakharov — Andrei (Dmitrievich) [ahn-drey di-mee-tree-uh-vich;; Russian uhn-dryey dmyee-tryi-yi-vyich] /ˈɑn dreɪ dɪˈmi tri ə vɪtʃ;; Russian ʌnˈdryeɪ ˈdmyi tryɪ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1921–1989, Russian nuclear physicist and human-rights advocate: Nobel Peace Prize 1975.
- samphire — a European succulent plant, Crithmum maritimum, of the parsley family, having compound leaves and small, whitish flowers, growing in clefts of rock near the sea.
- sapphira — a woman who, with her husband, Ananias, was struck dead for lying. Acts 5.
- sapphire — any gem variety of corundum other than the ruby, especially one of the blue varieties.
- sargodha — a city in NE Pakistan.
- sarpanch — the head of a panchayat
- sash bar — muntin (def 1).
- sather-k — (language) Karlsruhe Sather. A sublanguage of Sather used for introductory courses in object-oriented design and typesafe programming. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- sawhorse — a movable frame or trestle for supporting wood being sawed.
- sawshark — a shark with a long, flat, saw-like snout from the family Pristiophoridae and found in waters from South Africa to Australia and Japan
- scarfish — a fish in the family Scaridae
- schlager — a type of European popular music focusing on love and feelings
- schryari — a musical woodwind instrument of the 16th and 17th centuries having a double reed concealed in a cylinder and producing a shrill tone.
- schwartz — Delmore [del-mawr,, -mohr] /ˈdɛl mɔr,, -moʊr/ (Show IPA), 1913–1966, U.S. poet, short-story writer, and critic.
- scratchy — causing or liable to cause a slight grating noise: a scratchy record.
- sea hare — any gastropod of the order Aplysiacea, comprising large marine sluglike mollusks with a reduced, internal shell.
- seahorse — small horse-like fish
- seaperch — surfperch.
- searched — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
- searcher — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
- seashore — land along the sea or ocean.
- semiarch — a half arch.
- semihard — partly hard; not completely hard
- sephardi — a Jew of Spanish, Portuguese, or North African descent
- seraphic — of, like, or befitting a seraph.
- seraphim — a plural of seraph.
- seraphin — a silver coin which formed the principal currency of Goa in the 16th century
- shabbier — impaired by wear, use, etc.; worn: shabby clothes.
- shabrack — the saddlecloth of a cavalry horse used by European light cavalry
- shadower — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- shadrach — a companion of Daniel who, with Meshach and Abednego, was thrown into the fiery furnace of Nebuchadnezzar and came out unharmed. Dan. 3:12–30.
- shagbark — a hickory, Carya ovata, having shaggy, rough bark and yielding a valuable wood.
- shagreen — an untanned leather with a granular surface, prepared from the hide of a horse, shark, seal, etc.
- shagroon — a nineteenth-century Australian settler in Canterbury
- shamrock — any of several trifoliate plants, as the wood sorrel, Oxalis acetosella, or a small, pink-flowered clover, Trifolium repens minus, but especially Trifolium procumbens, a small, yellow-flowered clover: the national emblem of Ireland.
- shamshir — a curved Persian saber having one edge on the convex side.
- shankara — a.d. 789?–821? Hindu Vedantist philosopher and teacher.
- shar pei — one of a Chinese breed of large muscular dogs having a distinctive wrinkly skin covered by a fawn to dark brown smooth coat, originally developed as a guard dog.
- shar-pei — one of a Chinese breed of large muscular dogs having a distinctive wrinkly skin covered by a fawn to dark brown smooth coat, originally developed as a guard dog.
- sharable — the full or proper portion or part allotted or belonging to or contributed or owed by an individual or group.
- shardana — a member of an ancient people of the eastern Mediterranean who served as mercenaries in the Egyptian army and may have settled in Sardinia and Sicily.
- 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
- sharking — a person who preys greedily on others, as by cheating or usury.
- sharleen — a female given name.
- sharpest — having a thin cutting edge or a fine point; well-adapted for cutting or piercing: a sharp knife.
- sharping — having a thin cutting edge or a fine point; well-adapted for cutting or piercing: a sharp knife.
- sharpish — If you do something sharpish, you do it quickly, without any delay.