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8-letter words containing h, i, e

  • the rich — wealthy people
  • the ring — the sport of boxing
  • the ship — the constellation Argo
  • the sick — sick or ill people collectively
  • the smit — an infection
  • the soil — life and work on a farm; land
  • the veil — the life of a nun in a religious order and the obligations entailed by it
  • the wain — Charles's Wain
  • the wild — a free natural state of living
  • the yips — (in golf) nervous twitching or tension that destroys concentration and spoils performance
  • theatine — a member of a congregation of regular clerics, founded in Italy in 1524 to combat Protestantism and promote higher morality among Roman Catholics.
  • theatric — of or relating to the theater or dramatic presentations: theatrical performances.
  • thebaine — a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble, poisonous alkaloid, C 19 H 21 NO 3 , present in opium in small quantities, but having a strychninelike rather than a narcotic effect.
  • theistic — the belief in one God as the creator and ruler of the universe, without rejection of revelation (distinguished from deism).
  • thelitis — inflammation of the nipple.
  • thematic — of or relating to a theme.
  • theodicy — a vindication of the divine attributes, particularly holiness and justice, in establishing or allowing the existence of physical and moral evil.
  • theories — a coherent group of tested general propositions, commonly regarded as correct, that can be used as principles of explanation and prediction for a class of phenomena: Einstein's theory of relativity. Synonyms: principle, law, doctrine.
  • theorise — to form a theory or theories.
  • 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)
  • thesis's — a proposition stated or put forward for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved or to be maintained against objections: He vigorously defended his thesis on the causes of war.
  • thespiae — a city at the foot of Mount Helicon where, according to mythology, the Muses performed their games.
  • thespian — (often lowercase) pertaining to tragedy or to the dramatic art in general.
  • thespius — the founder of the city of Thespiae and the father, by Megamede, of 50 daughters, all of whom bore sons to Hercules.
  • thetical — positive; dogmatic.
  • theurgic — a system of beneficent magic practiced by the Egyptian Platonists and others.
  • thiamine — a white, crystalline, water-soluble compound of the vitamin-B complex, containing a thiazole and a pyrimidine group, C 12 H 17 ClN 4 OS, essential for normal functioning of the nervous system, a deficiency of which results chiefly in beriberi and other nerve disorders: occurring in many natural sources, as green peas, liver, and especially the seed coats of cereal grains, the commercial product of which is chiefly synthesized in the form of its chloride (thiamine chloride or thiamine hydrochloride) for therapeutic administration, or in nitrate form (thiamine mononitrate) for enriching flour mixes.
  • thiazide — a member of a class of diuretic substances that inhibit the reabsorption of sodium chloride in the distal convoluted tubule of the kidneys: used principally to treat hypertension.
  • thiazine — any of a class of compounds containing a ring composed of one atom each of sulfur and nitrogen and four atoms of carbon.
  • thiazole — a colorless, slightly water-miscible liquid, C 3 H 3 NS, having a disagreeable odor.
  • thickest — having relatively great extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thin: a thick slice.
  • thickety — full of or covered with thickets, dense brush or undergrowth
  • thickset — set thickly or in close arrangement; dense: a thickset hedge.
  • thievery — the act or practice of thieving; theft.
  • thieving — to take by theft; steal.
  • thievish — given to thieving.
  • thingies — Facetious. any small item whose name is unknown or forgotten.
  • thinness — having relatively little extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thick: thin ice.
  • thinnest — having relatively little extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thick: thin ice.
  • thionate — any salt or ester of thionic acid
  • thionine — a crystalline derivative of thiazine used as a violet dye to stain microscope specimens
  • thiophen — a water-insoluble, colorless liquid, C 4 H 4 S, resembling benzene, occurring in crude coal-tar benzene: used chiefly as a solvent and in organic synthesis.
  • thiotepa — a drug, C6H12N3PS, used in chemotherapy to destroy cancer or neoplastic cells
  • 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.
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