8-letter words containing h, e, r, i
- mouthier — Comparative form of mouthy.
- murphies — Plural form of murphy.
- murrhine — of, relating to, or manufactured of murra.
- narghile — a Middle Eastern tobacco pipe in which the smoke is drawn through water before reaching the lips; hookah.
- nargileh — Alternative form of narghile.
- neighbor — a person who lives near another.
- nephrism — chronic kidney disease, renal failure
- nephrite — Mineralogy. a compact or fibrous variety of actinolite, varying from whitish to dark green: a form of jade.
- nephroid — kidney-shaped
- new-rich — newly or suddenly wealthy.
- nichiren — (Zennichi; Zenshobo Rencho) 1222–82, Japanese Buddhist monk: founder of Nichiren Buddhism.
- nichrome — An alloy of nickel with chromium (10 to 20 percent) and sometimes iron (up to 25 percent), used chiefly in high-temperature applications such as electrical heating elements.
- nighters — Plural form of nighter.
- nosherei — food for snacking or noshing.
- ochidore — a crab, variously the shore crab (Carcinus Maenas), spider crab (esp of the family Maioidea), or swimming crab (esp of the family Portunidae)
- orchesis — the art of dance
- orchises — Plural form of orchis.
- ornithes — birds considered collectively
- othering — (chiefly philosophy) The process of perceiving or portraying someone or something as fundamentally different or alien.
- otherize — other (def 13).
- overfish — to fish (an area) excessively; to exhaust the supply of usable fish in (certain waters): Scientists are concerned that fishing boats may overfish our coastal waters.
- overhair — the outer coat of an animal
- overhigh — too high
- overrich — having wealth or great possessions; abundantly supplied with resources, means, or funds; wealthy: a rich man; a rich nation.
- overthin — too thin
- papisher — a Roman Catholic
- parhelic — of or like a parhelion or parhelia
- parishen — a parishioner
- perianth — the envelope of a flower, whether calyx or corolla or both.
- perished — to die or be destroyed through violence, privation, etc.: to perish in an earthquake.
- perisher — mischievous person
- 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).
- perthite — a variety of feldspar containing irregular bands of albite in microcline.
- pharisee — a member of a Jewish sect that flourished during the 1st century b.c. and 1st century a.d. and that differed from the Sadducees chiefly in its strict observance of religious ceremonies and practices, adherence to oral laws and traditions, and belief in an afterlife and the coming of a Messiah.
- pheresis — apheresis, especially plasmapheresis.
- phreatic — noting or pertaining to ground water.
- 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.
- pierhead — the outermost end of a pier or wharf.
- piershed — a building located on or near a pier (piershed) or wharf (wharf shed) used for short-term storage of cargo in transit.
- 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.
- pokerish — resembling a poker in stiffness
- polisher — to make smooth and glossy, especially by rubbing or friction: to polish a brass doorknob.
- prebirth — the period, usually six months, preceding a child's birth.
- prechill — coldness, especially a moderate but uncomfortably penetrating coldness: the chill of evening.
- prefight — of the period before a boxing match
- prehnite — a mineral, hydrous calcium aluminum silicate, Ca 2 Al 2 Si 3 O 1 0 (OH) 2 , occurring in light-green reniform aggregates or tabular crystals.
- preweigh — to weigh beforehand
- punchier — punch-drunk.
- punisher — to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault: to punish a criminal.