8-letter words containing h, e, r, i
- theorist — a person who theorizes.
- theorize — to form a theory or theories.
- therblig — (in time and motion study) any of the basic elements involved in completing a given manual operation or task that can be subjected to analysis.
- theremin — a musical instrument with electronic tone generation, the pitch and tone volume being controlled by the distance between the player's hands and two metal rods serving as antennas.
- thermion — an ion emitted by incandescent material.
- thermite — a mixture of finely-divided metallic aluminum and ferric oxide that when ignited produces extremely high temperatures as the result of the union of the aluminum with the oxygen of the oxide: used in welding, incendiary bombs, etc.
- 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)
- theurgic — a system of beneficent magic practiced by the Egyptian Platonists and others.
- thievery — the act or practice of thieving; theft.
- thiourea — a colorless, crystalline, bitter-tasting, water-soluble solid, CH 4 N 2 S, derived from urea by replacement of the oxygen with sulfur: used chiefly in photography, inorganic synthesis, and to accelerate the vulcanization of rubber.
- thirlage — an obligation imposed upon tenants of certain lands requiring them to have their grain ground at a specified mill
- thirteen — a cardinal number, 10 plus 3.
- thirties — a cardinal number, 10 times 3.
- thridace — a sedative made from lettuce juice
- thrilled — to affect with a sudden wave of keen emotion or excitement, as to produce a tremor or tingling sensation through the body.
- thriller — a person or thing that thrills.
- thrivers — to prosper; be fortunate or successful.
- thurible — a censer.
- thurifer — a person who carries the thurible in religious ceremonies.
- tigerish — tigerlike, as in strength, fierceness, courage, or coloration.
- torchier — of, relating to, or characteristic of a torch song or a torch singer.
- tracheid — an elongated, tapering xylem cell having lignified, pitted, intact walls, adapted for conduction and support. Compare vessel (def 5).
- treefish — a rockfish, Sebastes serriceps, of waters off southern California, marked with black bands.
- treeship — the existence of a tree
- trephine — a small circular saw with a center pin mounted on a strong hollow metal shaft to which is attached a transverse handle: used in surgery to remove circular disks of bone from the skull.
- trichite — any of various minute, hairlike mineral bodies occurring in certain vitreous igneous rocks, especially obsidian.
- trichome — Botany. an outgrowth from the epidermis of plants, as a hair.
- triethyl — containing three ethyl groups.
- triphase — operating in three phases
- triphone — a group of three phonemes
- trochite — an individual section of the stalk of a fossil crinoid, resembling a small wheel
- trophied — adorned with trophies.
- twitcher — to tug or pull at with a quick, short movement; pluck: She twitched him by the sleeve.
- uncipher — to decode; decipher
- unhairer — an instrument for removing hair
- unheroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- urheimat — the primeval habitation of a people, especially the prehistoric homeland of the speakers of a protolanguage.
- urumiyeh — Lake. Urmia, Lake.
- usher in — escort inside
- vacherin — a soft French or Swiss cheese made from cows' milk
- waterish — somewhat, or tending to be, watery.
- weighers — Plural form of weigher.
- weighter — the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
- wharenui — An ornamental Maori meeting house representing the body of a tupuna, forming part of the larger marae complex.
- wherries — Plural form of wherry.
- whiffler — an attendant who clears the way for a procession.
- whiggery — the principles or practices of Whigs.
- whimbrel — a curlew, Numenius phaeopus, of both the New and Old Worlds.
- whimpers — Plural form of whimper.
- whingers — Plural form of whinger.