8-letter words containing h, o, a, r, s
- horsecar — a streetcar drawn by a horse or horses.
- horseman — a person who is skilled in riding a horse.
- horseway — a bridleway
- hospodar — a former title of governors or princes of Wallachia and Moldavia.
- isograph — (in the study of the geographical distribution of a dialect) a line drawn on a map to indicate areas having common linguistic characteristics.
- jobshare — an arrangement in which two or more people divide the duties and payment for one position between them, working at different times
- kourbash — to whip with a kurbash.
- loathers — Plural form of loather.
- manhours — Plural form of manhour.
- markhors — Plural form of markhor.
- menorahs — Plural form of menorah.
- monarchs — a hereditary sovereign, as a king, queen, or emperor.
- niarchos — Stavros Spyros [stahv-raws spee-raws] /ˈstɑv rɔs ˈspi rɔs/ (Show IPA), 1909–1996, Greek businessman and shipowner.
- oistrakh — David [dey-vid] /ˈdeɪ vɪd/ (Show IPA), 1908–74, Russian violinist.
- orangish — resembling or suggesting an orange, as in taste, appearance, or color: decorated with orangy-pink flowers.
- orchards — Plural form of orchard.
- overrash — too rash
- overwash — the act of washing over something
- pharaohs — a title of an ancient Egyptian king.
- 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.
- rathouse — a psychiatric hospital or asylum
- rhamnose — deoxymannose; a deoxy hexose sugar, C 6 H 1 2 O 5 , that is an important component of the polysaccharides of plant cell walls.
- rhapsode — in ancient Greece, a person who recited rhapsodies, esp. one who recited epic poems as a profession
- rhapsody — Music. an instrumental composition irregular in form and suggestive of improvisation.
- rheobase — the minimum electric current required to excite a given nerve or muscle.
- rheostat — an adjustable resistor so constructed that its resistance may be changed without opening the circuit in which it is connected, thereby controlling the current in the circuit.
- rhodesia — (as Southern Rhodesia, ) a former British colony in S Africa: declared independence 1965; name changed to Zimbabwe, 1979.
- roadshow — travelling entertainment
- romansch — a group of Rhaetian dialects spoken in the Swiss canton of Graubünden; an official language of Switzerland since 1938
- roswitha — Hrotsvitha.
- rothesay — a town in the Strathclyde region, on Bute island, in SW Scotland: resort; ruins of 11th-century castle.
- sakharov — Andrei (Dmitrievich) [ahn-drey di-mee-tree-uh-vich;; Russian uhn-dryey dmyee-tryi-yi-vyich] /ˈɑn dreɪ dɪˈmi tri ə vɪtʃ;; Russian ʌnˈdryeɪ ˈdmyi tryɪ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1921–1989, Russian nuclear physicist and human-rights advocate: Nobel Peace Prize 1975.
- sargodha — a city in NE Pakistan.
- sawhorse — a movable frame or trestle for supporting wood being sawed.
- seahorse — small horse-like fish
- seashore — land along the sea or ocean.
- shadower — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- shagroon — a nineteenth-century Australian settler in Canterbury
- shamrock — any of several trifoliate plants, as the wood sorrel, Oxalis acetosella, or a small, pink-flowered clover, Trifolium repens minus, but especially Trifolium procumbens, a small, yellow-flowered clover: the national emblem of Ireland.
- sheraton — Thomas, 1751–1806, English cabinetmaker and furniture designer.
- sholapur — a city in S Maharashtra state, in SW India.
- shoreman — a person who lives on the shore
- shortage — a deficiency in quantity: a shortage of cash.
- shortarm — (of a punch) with the arm bent
- showyard — a yard where cattle and machinery are displayed
- soeharto — 1921–2008, Indonesian army officer and political leader: president 1967–98.
- sorehead — a disgruntled or vindictive person, especially an unsportsmanlike loser: Don't be such a sorehead, they won fair and square.
- staghorn — a piece of a stag's antler, especially when used to form objects, decorations, or the like.
- tarboosh — a tasseled cap of cloth or felt, usually red, that is worn by Muslim men either by itself or as the inner part of the turban.
- thoraces — Anatomy. the part of the trunk in humans and higher vertebrates between the neck and the abdomen, containing the cavity, enclosed by the ribs, sternum, and certain vertebrae, in which the heart, lungs, etc., are situated; chest.