8-letter words containing h, a, s, r
- shattery — (of rock or soil) liable to shatter or crumble
- shawarma — roasted meat, as lamb or beef, cooked on a spit. a dish consisting of this meat, served wrapped in pita bread with tahini or hummus.
- she-bear — a female bear
- 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
- sheather — a person who makes sheathes
- sheppard — Jack. 1702–24, English criminal, whose daring escapes from prison were celebrated in many contemporary ballads and plays
- 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
- shipyard — a yard or enclosure in which ships are built or repaired.
- shiralee — swag2 (def 2).
- shireman — a sheriff
- shivaree — a mock serenade with kettles, pans, horns, and other noisemakers given for a newly married couple; charivari.
- sholapur — a city in S Maharashtra state, in SW India.
- shoreman — a person who lives on the shore
- shortage — a deficiency in quantity: a shortage of cash.
- shortarm — (of a punch) with the arm bent
- showyard — a yard where cattle and machinery are displayed
- shraddha — one of several funeral rites performed at intervals after a death.
- 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.
- shrieval — of, belonging to, or relating to a sheriff.
- shvartze — Yiddish: Usually Disparaging and Offensive. schvartze.
- slathers — to spread or apply thickly: to slather butter on toast.
- smartish — rather smart; fairly intelligent or quick-witted: smartish answers on a quiz.
- snatcher — to make a sudden effort to seize something, as with the hand; grab (usually followed by at).
- soeharto — 1921–2008, Indonesian army officer and political leader: president 1967–98.
- sorehead — a disgruntled or vindictive person, especially an unsportsmanlike loser: Don't be such a sorehead, they won fair and square.
- sphairee — a game resembling tennis played with wooden bats and a perforated plastic ball, devised by F. A. Beck in 1961
- splasher — a person or thing that splashes.
- spreathe — to chap
- squarish — approximately square.
- sriracha — a hot condiment sauce made from red chilis, vinegar, sugar, garlic, and salt, used especially in Vietnamese and Thai cuisine.
- staghorn — a piece of a stag's antler, especially when used to form objects, decorations, or the like.
- stancher — staunch2 .
- starched — a white, tasteless, solid carbohydrate, (C 6 H 1 0 O 5) n , occurring in the form of minute granules in the seeds, tubers, and other parts of plants, and forming an important constituent of rice, corn, wheat, beans, potatoes, and many other vegetable foods.
- starfish — any echinoderm of the class Asteroidea, having the body radially arranged, usually in the form of a star, with five or more rays or arms radiating from a central disk; asteroid.
- starship — a spaceship designed for intergalactic travel.
- strachey — (Giles) Lytton [jahylz lit-n] /dʒaɪlz ˈlɪt n/ (Show IPA), 1880–1932, English biographer and literary critic.
- straicht — straight
- straight — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- stramash — an uproar; disturbance.
- straucht — straight
- strawhat — of or relating to a summer theater situated outside an urban or metropolitan area: strawhat theater; strawhat circuit.
- subgraph — a graph linked with another graph
- surbahar — an Indian stringed instrument, larger than a sitar
- swanherd — a person who tends swans.
- swarther — swarthy.
- synarchy — joint rule
- syngraph — a document signed by all parties