8-letter words containing h, e, r, p, s
- polisher — to make smooth and glossy, especially by rubbing or friction: to polish a brass doorknob.
- potsherd — a broken pottery fragment, especially one of archaeological value.
- precrash — of or pertaining to the period before a crash, esp of a motor vehicle; coming into effect or being deployed prior to a crash
- preshape — to shape beforehand so as to be ready for use
- preshave — a liquid preparation, usually containing alcohol, for applying to the face to dry the skin and beard before shaving with an electric razor.
- prophase — Cell Biology. the first stage of mitosis or meiosis in eukaryotic cell division, during which the nuclear envelope breaks down and strands of chromatin form into chromosomes.
- prophesy — to foretell or predict.
- prophets — a person who speaks for God or a deity, or by divine inspiration.
- pthreads — POSIX Threads
- punisher — to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault: to punish a criminal.
- purchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- pushover — Informal. anything done easily.
- rephrase — to phrase again or differently: He rephrased the statement to give it less formality.
- repolish — a repolishing, the action of polishing again
- reshaper — a person or thing that reshapes
- respighi — Ottorino [awt-taw-ree-naw] /ˌɔt tɔˈri nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1879–1936, Italian composer.
- rhapsode — in ancient Greece, a person who recited rhapsodies, esp. one who recited epic poems as a profession
- rose hip — hip2 .
- 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.
- sapphire — any gem variety of corundum other than the ruby, especially one of the blue varieties.
- seaperch — surfperch.
- 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
- 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.
- sharpest — having a thin cutting edge or a fine point; well-adapted for cutting or piercing: a sharp knife.
- shepherd — a male given name.
- sheppard — Jack. 1702–24, English criminal, whose daring escapes from prison were celebrated in many contemporary ballads and plays
- shore up — a supporting post or beam with auxiliary members, especially one placed obliquely against the side of a building, a ship in drydock, or the like; prop; strut.
- 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.
- shrimper — a shrimp fisherman.
- sighyper — Special Interest Group on Hypertext and Multimedia of the SGML Users' Group.
- sopheric — relating to Jewish scribes
- sopherim — scribe1 (def 3).
- sphairee — a game resembling tennis played with wooden bats and a perforated plastic ball, devised by F. A. Beck in 1961
- spherics — Also, sferics. (used with a singular verb) a branch of meteorology in which electronic devices are used to forecast the weather and to study atmospheric conditions.
- spheroid — a solid geometrical figure similar in shape to a sphere, as an ellipsoid.
- spherule — a small sphere or spherical body.
- spitcher — the end or finish
- splasher — a person or thing that splashes.
- spreathe — to chap
- superhit — an extremely popular song, film, CD, play, etc
- superhot — extremely hot
- treeship — the existence of a tree
- triphase — operating in three phases
- trophesy — a condition caused by a disorder of the nerves relating to nutrition
- unsphere — to remove from its or one's sphere; displace.
- whimpers — Plural form of whimper.