8-letter words containing i, h, r
- shivered — to shake or tremble with cold, fear, excitement, etc.
- shopgirl — a salesgirl; female store clerk.
- shorting — having little length; not long.
- shortish — rather short.
- showgirl — a woman who appears in the chorus of a show, nightclub act, etc.
- showring — an area where animals are displayed for sale or competition
- shrewdie — a shrewd person
- shrewish — having the disposition of a shrew.
- shrieval — of, belonging to, or relating to a sheriff.
- shrilled — high-pitched and piercing in sound quality: a shrill cry.
- shriller — high-pitched and piercing in sound quality: a shrill cry.
- shrimper — a shrimp fisherman.
- shrinker — a person or thing that shrinks.
- shuriken — a martial-arts weapon usually in the shape of a star or cross with sharp protruding edges, thrown with a spin towards the target
- shvernik — Nikolai [nik-uh-lahy;; Russian nyi-kuh-lahy] /ˈnɪk əˌlaɪ;; Russian nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ/ (Show IPA), 1888–1970, Russian government official: president of the Soviet Union 1946–53.
- sighyper — Special Interest Group on Hypertext and Multimedia of the SGML Users' Group.
- skirmish — Military. a fight between small bodies of troops, especially advanced or outlying detachments of opposing armies.
- slithery — to slide down or along a surface, especially unsteadily, from side to side, or with some friction or noise: The box slithered down the chute.
- smartish — rather smart; fairly intelligent or quick-witted: smartish answers on a quiz.
- smithery — the work, craft, or workshop of a smith.
- sopheric — relating to Jewish scribes
- sopherim — scribe1 (def 3).
- sorryish — rather sorry
- sphairee — a game resembling tennis played with wooden bats and a perforated plastic ball, devised by F. A. Beck in 1961
- spherics — Also, sferics. (used with a singular verb) a branch of meteorology in which electronic devices are used to forecast the weather and to study atmospheric conditions.
- spheroid — a solid geometrical figure similar in shape to a sphere, as an ellipsoid.
- spitcher — the end or finish
- squarish — approximately square.
- squirish — like or appropriate to a squire
- sriracha — a hot condiment sauce made from red chilis, vinegar, sugar, garlic, and salt, used especially in Vietnamese and Thai cuisine.
- starfish — any echinoderm of the class Asteroidea, having the body radially arranged, usually in the form of a star, with five or more rays or arms radiating from a central disk; asteroid.
- starship — a spaceship designed for intergalactic travel.
- stitcher — one complete movement of a threaded needle through a fabric or material such as to leave behind it a single loop or portion of thread, as in sewing, embroidery, or the surgical closing of wounds.
- straicht — straight
- straight — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- stroheim — Erich von [er-ik] /ˈɛr ɪk/ (Show IPA), 1885–1957, U.S. actor and director, born in Austria.
- strophic — Also, strophical. consisting of, pertaining to, or characterized by a strophe or strophes.
- subright — Usually, subrights. subsidiary rights, as for a literary or dramatic property.
- superhit — an extremely popular song, film, CD, play, etc
- surffish — surfperch.
- taghairm — a form of divination once practised in the Highlands of Scotland
- tarakihi — a common edible sea fish of New Zealand waters
- tarshish — an ancient country, of uncertain location, mentioned in the Bible. I Kings 10:22.
- tarwhine — a bream, Rhabdosargus sarba, of E Australia, silver in colour with gold streaks
- taxiarch — an Athenian commander in charge of a company of soldiers
- telechir — a robot arm controlled by a human operator
- tephrite — a basaltic rock consisting essentially of pyroxene and plagioclase with nepheline or leucite.
- teraphim — small images or other things representing household gods, used among ancient Semitic peoples
- the grid — the national network of transmission lines, pipes, etc, by which electricity, gas, or water is distributed
- the kirk — the Presbyterian Church of Scotland