8-letter words containing i, h, r
- tribrach — Prosody. a foot of three short syllables.
- trichina — a nematode, Trichinella spiralis, the adults of which live in the intestine and produce larvae that encyst in the muscle tissue, especially in pigs, rats, and humans.
- trichion — the point of intersection of the normal hairline and the middle line of the forehead.
- trichite — any of various minute, hairlike mineral bodies occurring in certain vitreous igneous rocks, especially obsidian.
- trichoid — resembling hair; hairlike.
- trichome — Botany. an outgrowth from the epidermis of plants, as a hair.
- trichord — a musical instrument with three strings
- trickish — tricky.
- triethyl — containing three ethyl groups.
- triglyph — a structural member of a Doric frieze, separating two consecutive metopes, and consisting typically of a rectangular block with two vertical grooves or glyphs, and two chamfers or half grooves at the sides, together counting as a third glyph, and leaving three flat vertical bands on the face of the block.
- trigraph — a group of three letters representing a single speech sound, as eau in beau.
- trimorph — a substance existing in three structurally distinct forms; a trimorphous substance.
- trip-hop — a type of British electronic dance music of the 1990s, influenced by drug culture
- triphase — operating in three phases
- triphone — a group of three phonemes
- triptych — Fine Arts. a set of three panels or compartments side by side, bearing pictures, carvings, or the like.
- tristich — a strophe, stanza, or poem consisting of three lines.
- trithing — riding2 .
- trochaic — pertaining to the trochee.
- trochite — an individual section of the stalk of a fossil crinoid, resembling a small wheel
- trochoid — Geometry. a curve traced by a point on a radius or an extension of the radius of a circle that rolls, without slipping, on a curve, another circle, or a straight line. Equation: x = aθ − b sin θ, y = a − b cos θ.
- trophied — adorned with trophies.
- twitcher — to tug or pull at with a quick, short movement; pluck: She twitched him by the sleeve.
- ulbricht — Walter [vahl-tuh r] /ˈvɑl tər/ (Show IPA), 1893–1973, German Communist leader: chairman of the East German Council of State 1960–73.
- ultrahip — extremely trendy or fashionable
- unbright — not bright
- uncipher — to decode; decipher
- unhairer — an instrument for removing hair
- unheroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- unthrift — an unthrifty person; a spendthrift
- urheimat — the primeval habitation of a people, especially the prehistoric homeland of the speakers of a protolanguage.
- urumiyeh — Lake. Urmia, Lake.
- urushiol — a toxic, liquid, catechol derivative, the active irritant principle in several species of the plant genus Rhus, as in poison ivy.
- usher in — escort inside
- vacherin — a soft French or Swiss cheese made from cows' milk
- vagarish — vaguely or somewhat vagarious; relating to a whim
- vaporish — of the nature of or resembling vapor: a vaporish chiffon dress.
- varginha — a city in E Brazil.
- varnishy — glossy; like varnish
- vigorish — a charge paid on a bet, as to a bookie.
- wardship — guardianship; custody.
- warships — Plural form of warship.
- waterish — somewhat, or tending to be, watery.
- weighers — Plural form of weigher.
- weighter — the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
- whakairo — the art of carving
- wharenui — An ornamental Maori meeting house representing the body of a tupuna, forming part of the larger marae complex.
- wharfing — Wharfs collectively.
- wherries — Plural form of wherry.
- whiffler — an attendant who clears the way for a procession.