8-letter words containing i, h, r
- oligarch — one of the rulers in an oligarchy.
- omniarch — A ruler of the world.
- orangish — resembling or suggesting an orange, as in taste, appearance, or color: decorated with orangy-pink flowers.
- orchesis — the art of dance
- orchido- — testicle
- orchises — Plural form of orchis.
- orchitis — inflammation of the testis.
- orichalc — a yellow alloy derived from gold or copper
- ornithes — birds considered collectively
- ornithic — of or relating to birds.
- ornitho- — bird or birds
- orthicon — a camera tube, more sensitive than the iconoscope, in which a beam of low-velocity electrons scans a photoemissive mosaic.
- orthosis — Medicine/Medical. the correction of orthopedic maladjustments.
- orthotic — Also, orthosis. a device or support, especially for the foot, used to relieve or correct an orthopedic problem.
- othering — (chiefly philosophy) The process of perceiving or portraying someone or something as fundamentally different or alien.
- otherize — other (def 13).
- ourinhos — a city in E Brazil.
- outright — complete or total: an outright loss.
- outwhirl — to surpass at whirling
- overfish — to fish (an area) excessively; to exhaust the supply of usable fish in (certain waters): Scientists are concerned that fishing boats may overfish our coastal waters.
- overhair — the outer coat of an animal
- overhigh — too high
- overrich — having wealth or great possessions; abundantly supplied with resources, means, or funds; wealthy: a rich man; a rich nation.
- overthin — too thin
- papisher — a Roman Catholic
- parching — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
- parhelic — of or like a parhelion or parhelia
- parishad — (in India) an assembly
- parishen — a parishioner
- parochin — a parish
- parthian — a native or inhabitant of Parthia.
- perianth — the envelope of a flower, whether calyx or corolla or both.
- perished — to die or be destroyed through violence, privation, etc.: to perish in an earthquake.
- perisher — mischievous person
- 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).
- perthite — a variety of feldspar containing irregular bands of albite in microcline.
- pharisee — a member of a Jewish sect that flourished during the 1st century b.c. and 1st century a.d. and that differed from the Sadducees chiefly in its strict observance of religious ceremonies and practices, adherence to oral laws and traditions, and belief in an afterlife and the coming of a Messiah.
- pharming — the process of producing medically useful products from genetically modified plants and animals.
- pheresis — apheresis, especially plasmapheresis.
- philtrum — Anatomy. the vertical groove on the surface of the upper lip, below the septum of the nose.
- phorminx — an ancient Greek stringed musical instrument of the lyre family
- phormium — any plant of the New Zealand bulbous genus Phormium, with leathery evergreen leaves and red or yellow flowers in panicles
- phoronid — any member of the invertebrate phylum Phoronida, wormlike marine animals living in a chitinous tube and having an anterior structure bearing ciliated tentacles for feeding.
- 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.
- phreatic — noting or pertaining to ground water.
- phrenism — one of the three vital forces, which are non-physical life forces. Phrenism is the thought force, as opposed to neurism, the nerve force, and bathmism, the growth force.
- phrygian — of or relating to Phrygia, its people, or their language.
- pichurim — a Brazilian laurel tree
- pierhead — the outermost end of a pier or wharf.
- piershed — a building located on or near a pier (piershed) or wharf (wharf shed) used for short-term storage of cargo in transit.