8-letter words containing h, o, r, e
- reclothe — to clothe (someone or something) again or provide new clothing for (someone)
- redhorse — any of several suckers of the genus Moxostoma, found in the fresh waters of North America, often having reddish fins.
- redshort — (of metal, iron, steel, etc) to become brittle at red-hot temperatures
- regolith — mantle rock.
- regrowth — the act or process, or a manner of growing; development; gradual increase.
- rehoboam — the successor of Solomon and the first king of Judah, reigned 922?–915? b.c. I Kings 11:43.
- rehoboth — a town in central Israel, SE of Tel Aviv.
- reinhold — a male given name.
- replough — to plough again
- repolish — a repolishing, the action of polishing again
- reproach — to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure.
- reschool — to school again; retrain
- reshower — to shower again
- resmooth — to make smooth again
- resought — to go in search or quest of: to seek the truth.
- 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
- rheobase — the minimum electric current required to excite a given nerve or muscle.
- rheology — the study of the deformation and flow of matter.
- rheopexy — the property exhibited by certain slow-gelling, thixotropic sols of gelling more rapidly when the containing vessel is shaken gently.
- rheophil — (of organisms) liking flowing water
- 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.
- rheotome — an interrupter of an electric current
- rheotron — (formerly) betatron.
- rhetoric — (in writing or speech) the undue use of exaggeration or display; bombast.
- rhodesia — (as Southern Rhodesia, ) a former British colony in S Africa: declared independence 1965; name changed to Zimbabwe, 1979.
- rhyolite — a fine-grained igneous rock rich in silica: the volcanic equivalent of granite.
- ricochet — the motion of an object or a projectile in rebounding or deflecting one or more times from the surface over which it is passing or against which it hits a glancing blow.
- robohelp — (tool) A Microsoft Windows Help authoring tool from Blue Sky Software. Used with Microsoft Word to create Help files for inclusion in a Windows application or for stand alone use.
- rochdale — a borough of Greater Manchester, in N England: site of one of the earliest cooperative societies 1844.
- rochelle — a seaport in and the capital of Charente Maritime, in W France; besieged while a Huguenot stronghold 1627–29.
- rolliche — roulade (def 2).
- rondache — a small, round shield
- rose hip — hip2 .
- rosebush — a shrub that bears roses.
- rosefish — redfish (def 1).
- rothesay — a town in the Strathclyde region, on Bute island, in SW Scotland: resort; ruins of 11th-century castle.
- roughage — rough or coarse material.
- roughest — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
- roughleg — any of several kinds of large hawk with feathered legs
- 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).
- sawhorse — a movable frame or trestle for supporting wood being sawed.
- schooler — an institution where instruction is given, especially to persons under college age: The children are at school.
- schooner — Nautical. any of various types of sailing vessel having a foremast and mainmast, with or without other masts, and having fore-and-aft sails on all lower masts. See also ketch, topsail schooner, yawl1 (def 2).
- schröder — Gerhard (ˈɡerhɑt). born 1944, German Social Democrat politician; chancellor of Germany from 1998–2005
- scorched — slightly burned
- scorcher — a person or thing that scorches.
- scouther — to scorch or singe
- seahorse — small horse-like fish
- seashore — land along the sea or ocean.