8-letter words containing h, o, r, s, c
- droschke — Alternative form of droshky.
- dyschroa — an alteration of colour on the skin
- groschen — a zinc or aluminum coin of Austria until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a schilling.
- grouches — Plural form of grouch.
- hickorys — a city in W North Carolina.
- historic — well-known or important in history: a historic building; historic occasions.
- horsecar — a streetcar drawn by a horse or horses.
- hystoric — Nonstandard spelling of historic.
- ichorous — Classical Mythology. an ethereal fluid flowing in the veins of the gods.
- isochore — Physics.. Also, isochor. Also called isometric, isometric line. for a given substance, a curve graphing temperature against pressure, when the volume of the substance is held constant.
- isochron — A line on a diagram or map connecting points relating to the same time or equal times.
- monarchs — a hereditary sovereign, as a king, queen, or emperor.
- moochers — Plural form of moocher.
- niarchos — Stavros Spyros [stahv-raws spee-raws] /ˈstɑv rɔs ˈspi rɔs/ (Show IPA), 1909–1996, Greek businessman and shipowner.
- ocherous — any of a class of natural earths, mixtures of hydrated oxide of iron with various earthy materials, ranging in color from pale yellow to orange and red, and used as pigments.
- ochreous — ocher.
- orchards — Plural form of orchard.
- orchesis — the art of dance
- orchises — Plural form of orchis.
- orchitis — inflammation of the testis.
- prochoos — an elongated form of the oinochoe.
- psychro- — cold
- rechoose — to choose (something or someone) again
- reschool — to school again; retrain
- rhonchus — a wheezing or snoring sound heard upon auscultation of the chest, caused by an accumulation of mucus or other material.
- rockfish — any of various fishes found about rocks.
- romansch — a group of Rhaetian dialects spoken in the Swiss canton of Graubünden; an official language of Switzerland since 1938
- 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
- scrootch — to crouch, squeeze, or huddle (usually followed by down, in, or up).
- 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.
- sherlock — a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “fair-haired.”.
- shortcut — a shorter or quicker way.
- sloucher — to sit or stand with an awkward, drooping posture.
- smoocher — to kiss.
- sopheric — relating to Jewish scribes
- strophic — Also, strophical. consisting of, pertaining to, or characterized by a strophe or strophes.
- subchord — a part of a chord
- sunporch — a room with large windows and often a glass roof, built around one of the main entrances to a building
- synchro- — indicating synchronization
- 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.
- troches' — a small tablet or lozenge, usually a circular one, made of medicinal substance worked into a paste with sugar and mucilage or the like, and dried.