8-letter words containing i, h, r
- pilchard — a small, southern European, marine fish, Sardina pilchardus, related to the herring but smaller and rounder.
- pinchers — a gripping tool consisting of two pivoted limbs forming a pair of jaws and a pair of handles (usually used with pair of).
- pinscher — one of a group of related dogs including the Doberman pinscher, miniature pinscher, and affenpinscher.
- piroshki — small turnovers or dumplings with a filling, as of meat or fruit.
- pirozhki — small triangular pastries filled with meat, vegetables, etc
- pith ray — medullary ray.
- pokerish — resembling a poker in stiffness
- polisher — to make smooth and glossy, especially by rubbing or friction: to polish a brass doorknob.
- porkfish — a black and gold grunt, Anisotremus virginicus, of West Indian waters.
- potiphar — the Egyptian officer whose wife tried to seduce Joseph. Gen. 39:1–20.
- prankish — of the nature of a prank: a prankish plan.
- prebirth — the period, usually six months, preceding a child's birth.
- prechill — coldness, especially a moderate but uncomfortably penetrating coldness: the chill of evening.
- prefight — of the period before a boxing match
- prehnite — a mineral, hydrous calcium aluminum silicate, Ca 2 Al 2 Si 3 O 1 0 (OH) 2 , occurring in light-green reniform aggregates or tabular crystals.
- preweigh — to weigh beforehand
- prichard — a city in S Alabama.
- priggish — a person who displays or demands of others pointlessly precise conformity, fussiness about trivialities, or exaggerated propriety, especially in a self-righteous or irritating manner.
- prithivi — a Vedic goddess personifying the earth and fertility.
- prohibit — to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.
- proudish — rather proud
- prowfish — a fish, Zaprora silenus, of the North Pacific.
- puirtith — poverty
- punchier — punch-drunk.
- punisher — to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault: to punish a criminal.
- purplish — of or having a somewhat purple hue.
- queerish — Somewhat queer.
- quirkish — (archaic) Characterized by quirks; evasive, tricky.
- rabbitoh — (formerly) an itinerant seller of rabbits for eating
- rachilla — a small or secondary rachis, as the axis of a spikelet in a grass inflorescence.
- rachises — Plural form of rachis.
- rachitic — rickets.
- rachitis — rickets.
- railhead — the farthest point to which the rails of a railroad have been laid.
- rainwash — material eroded or swept away by rain.
- ranching — an establishment maintained for raising livestock under range conditions.
- raphania — a type of ergotism possibly resulting from ingestion of the poison from radish seeds
- rathripe — mature or ripe ahead of time
- ravisher — to fill with strong emotion, especially joy.
- rawmaish — foolish or exaggerated talk; nonsense
- rayleigh — John William Strutt [struht] /strʌt/ (Show IPA), 3rd Baron, 1842–1919, English physicist: Nobel prize 1904.
- red hind — a grouper, Epinephelus guttatus, of Florida, the West Indies, etc., valued as a food fish.
- redditch — a town in W central England, in N Worcestershire: designated a new town in the mid-1960s; metal-working industries. Pop: 74 803 (2001)
- redlight — a red lamp, used as a traffic signal to mean “stop.”.
- redshift — a shift toward longer wavelengths of the spectral lines emitted by a celestial object that is caused by the object moving away from the earth.
- redshirt — a high-school or college athlete kept out of varsity competition for one year to develop skills and extend eligibility. a child held back from starting kindergarten for one year, the practice of which is believed by some parents to give the child academic, athletic, and social advantages.
- reeffish — any of several damselfishes, as Chromis insolatus, that live among reefs.
- refinish — to give a new surface to (wood, furniture, etc.).
- regolith — mantle rock.
- reinhold — a male given name.