8-letter words containing h, i, g, r
- maghrebi — a native or inhabitant of the Maghreb.
- marching — to touch at the border; border.
- mightier — having, characterized by, or showing superior power or strength: mighty rulers.
- morphing — Linguistics. a sequence of phonemes constituting a minimal unit of grammar or syntax, and, as such, a representation, member, or contextual variant of a morpheme in a specific environment. Compare allomorph (def 2).
- mr right — You can use Mr Right, Miss Right, or Ms Right to talk about the kind of person that you imagine you will marry or spend the rest of your life with.
- 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.
- nighters — Plural form of nighter.
- nightjar — a nocturnal European bird, Caprimulgus europaeus, of the family Caprimulgidae, having a short bill and a wide mouth and feeding on insects captured in the air.
- northing — northward movement or deviation.
- nuraghic — relating to the Bronze Age Sardinian civilization that is distinguished by nuraghe
- oligarch — one of the rulers in an oligarchy.
- orangish — resembling or suggesting an orange, as in taste, appearance, or color: decorated with orangy-pink flowers.
- othering — (chiefly philosophy) The process of perceiving or portraying someone or something as fundamentally different or alien.
- outright — complete or total: an outright loss.
- overhigh — too high
- parching — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
- 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).
- pharming — the process of producing medically useful products from genetically modified plants and animals.
- phrasing — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- phrygian — of or relating to Phrygia, its people, or their language.
- prefight — of the period before a boxing match
- preweigh — to weigh beforehand
- priggish — a person who displays or demands of others pointlessly precise conformity, fussiness about trivialities, or exaggerated propriety, especially in a self-righteous or irritating manner.
- ranching — an establishment maintained for raising livestock under range conditions.
- rayleigh — John William Strutt [struht] /strʌt/ (Show IPA), 3rd Baron, 1842–1919, English physicist: Nobel prize 1904.
- redlight — a red lamp, used as a traffic signal to mean “stop.”.
- regolith — mantle rock.
- respighi — Ottorino [awt-taw-ree-naw] /ˌɔt tɔˈri nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1879–1936, Italian composer.
- retching — to make efforts to vomit.
- rheingau — a small wine-growing region in Hesse, in central Germany, on the Rhine.
- right on — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- right-on — exactly right or to the point.
- rightest — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- rightful — having a valid or just claim, as to some property or position; legitimate: the rightful owner of the farm.
- righting — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- rightish — somewhat right, esp politically
- rightism — conservatism, especially in politics.
- rightist — of or relating to conservative or reactionary political views; noting or characteristic of the political Right.
- ringhals — a highly venomous snake, Hemachatus haemachatus, of southern Africa, related to the cobras, having one to three light-colored bands across its throat and characterized by its ability to accurately spit its venom up to 7 feet (2.1 meter) away.
- roaching — Nautical. the upward curve at the foot of a square sail. (loosely) a convexity given to any of the edges of a sail; round.
- rough it — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
- roughish — rather rough: a roughish sea.
- run high — If people's feelings are running high, they are very angry, concerned, or excited.
- sharking — a person who preys greedily on others, as by cheating or usury.
- sharping — having a thin cutting edge or a fine point; well-adapted for cutting or piercing: a sharp knife.
- shearing — Usually, shears. (sometimes used with a singular verb) scissors of large size (usually used with pair of). any of various other cutting implements or machines having two blades that resemble or suggest those of scissors.
- sheering — to deviate from a course, as a ship; swerve.
- shirking — to evade (work, duty, responsibility, etc.).