8-letter words containing h, e, u, r
- rugelach — a fruit-and-nut pastry shaped like a croissant
- rushmore — Mount, a peak in the Black Hills of South Dakota that is a memorial (Mount Rushmore National Memorial) having 60-foot (18-meter) busts of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt, carved into its face between 1927 and 1941, from a design by and under the direction of Gutzon Borglum. 5600 feet (1707 meters).
- ruthenia — a former province in E Czechoslovakia.
- ruthenic — containing ruthenium in a higher valence state than the corresponding ruthenious compound.
- ruthless — without pity or compassion; cruel; merciless: a ruthless tyrant.
- schubert — Franz [frahnts] /frɑnts/ (Show IPA), 1797–1828, Austrian composer.
- schuller — Gunther, born 1925, U.S. composer, conductor, and music writer and educator.
- schuster — Leon. born 1951, South African comedian and film maker. His films include You Must Be Joking (1986) and Mr Bones (2001)
- schuyler — Philip John, 1733–1804, American statesman and general in the Revolutionary War.
- scouther — to scorch or singe
- 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.
- shoulder — the part of each side of the body in humans, at the top of the trunk, extending from each side of the base of the neck to the region where the arm articulates with the trunk.
- shrouded — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
- shrugged — to raise and contract (the shoulders), expressing indifference, disdain, etc.
- shrunken — a past participle of shrink.
- shuddery — trembling or quivering with fear, dread, cold, etc.
- shuffler — a person who shuffles.
- shuriken — a martial-arts weapon usually in the shape of a star or cross with sharp protruding edges, thrown with a spin towards the target
- shutters — a solid or louvered movable cover for a window.
- shuttler — a person who weaves
- sloucher — to sit or stand with an awkward, drooping posture.
- southern — lying toward, situated in, or directed toward the south.
- spherule — a small sphere or spherical body.
- superhit — an extremely popular song, film, CD, play, etc
- superhot — extremely hot
- teuchter — a derogatory word used by Lowlanders for a Highlander
- the crud — a disease; rot
- the drum — the necessary information (esp in the phrase give (someone) the drum)
- the hour — an exact number of complete hours
- the rule — the common order of things; normal condition
- the runs — diarrhoea
- the turf — a track, usually of grass or dirt, where horse races are run
- the turn — the fourth community card to be dealt face-up in a round of Texas hold ’em
- theurgic — a system of beneficent magic practiced by the Egyptian Platonists and others.
- 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.
- thruster — a person or thing that thrusts.
- thuggery — a cruel or vicious ruffian, robber, or murderer.
- thundery — thunderous.
- thurible — a censer.
- thurifer — a person who carries the thurible in religious ceremonies.
- trauchle — to fatigue; tire; wear out.
- tyrrheus — a shepherd. The killing of his tame stag by Ascanius was a cause of the war between Aeneas' Trojans and the people of Latium.
- unarched — (of a structure) not arched; lacking arches
- unbreech — to remove the breeches from (a person)
- uncharge — to acquit.
- uncipher — to decode; decipher
- unhairer — an instrument for removing hair
- unharmed — physical injury or mental damage; hurt: to do him bodily harm.
- unhearse — to remove from a hearse
- unheroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.