8-letter words containing h, r, y
- chirpily — In a chirpy way.
- chirrupy — chirpy; cheerful.
- chivalry — Chivalry is polite, kind, and unselfish behaviour, especially by men towards women.
- choirboy — A choirboy is a boy who sings in a church choir.
- chorally — of a chorus or a choir: She heads our new choral society.
- choultry — Alternative form of choltry.
- christly — of Jesus Christ; Christlike
- chronaxy — Alternative form of chronaxie.
- chrysler — Walter Percy, 1875–1940, U.S. automobile manufacturer.
- chrystal — Obsolete spelling of crystal.
- chummery — (India) The building in which unmarried British army officers were quartered during the w British Raj.
- churchly — appropriate to, associated with, or suggestive of church life and customs
- chyluria — the presence of chyle in urine
- chytrids — Plural form of chytrid.
- cleruchy — (in the ancient world) a special type of Athenian colony, in which settlers (cleruchs) retained their Athenian citizenship and the community remained a political dependency of Athens
- coryphee — leading dancer of a corps de ballet
- counthry — Irish eye dialect spelling of country.
- crayfish — A crayfish is a small shellfish with five pairs of legs which lives in rivers and streams. You can eat some types of crayfish.
- cyphered — Simple past tense and past participle of cypher.
- cytherea — Aphrodite
- dihybrid — the offspring of parents differing in two specific pairs of genes.
- dihydric — (especially of alcohols and phenols) dihydroxy.
- dinarchy — duarchy.
- docherty — Pete. born 1979, English rock musician and songwriter; member of The Libertines (1997–2004) and Babyshambles (from 2005)
- draughty — characterized by or admitting currents of air, usually uncomfortable.
- droughty — dry.
- dry hole — any well drilled for oil or gas that does not yield enough to be commercially profitable.
- dry wash — clothes, curtains, etc., washed and dried but not yet ironed. Compare wet wash.
- dry-hump — to engage in non-penetrative sexual activity
- dry-shod — having or keeping the shoes dry.
- drybrush — a technique of drawing or painting in which a brush having a small quantity of pigment or medium is applied to or dragged across a surface.
- drymouth — a condition of insufficient saliva, known medically as xerostomia
- dyschroa — an alteration of colour on the skin
- earthily — In an earthy manner.
- eeyorish — Alternative capitalization of Eeyorish.
- endarchy — a central government
- enhydros — a piece of chalcedony that contains water
- erythema — Superficial reddening of the skin, usually in patches, as a result of injury or irritation causing dilatation of the blood capillaries.
- erythro- — red
- erythron — red blood cells and their related tissues
- etherify — (organic chemistry) To convert (an alcohol etc.) into an ether.
- euphrasy — eyebright
- eurybath — an aquatic organism that can live at different depths
- eurythmy — The harmony of features and proportion in architecture.
- eutrophy — (medicine) healthy nutrition.
- fatherly — of, like, or befitting a father.
- feathery — clothed or covered with feathers; feathered.
- fish fry — a picnic or other gathering at which fish are fried and eaten.
- flaherty — Robert Joseph, 1884–1951, U.S. pioneer in the production of documentary motion pictures.
- forsythe — A descendent of Algol 60, intended to be as uniform and general as possible, while retaining the basic character of its progenitor. Forsythe features higher-order procedures and intersection types.