8-letter words containing i, h, r
- chronics — Plural form of chronic.
- chubbier — Comparative form of chubby.
- churinga — a sacred amulet of the native Australians
- churlish — Someone who is churlish is unfriendly, bad-tempered, or impolite.
- churning — Churning water is moving about violently.
- churring — to make a characteristic shrill, trilling sound, as a grasshopper.
- chyluria — the presence of chyle in urine
- chytrids — Plural form of chytrid.
- cinchers — Plural form of cincher.
- ciphered — Put (a message) into secret writing; encode.
- cipherer — a person who ciphers
- citharas — Plural form of cithara.
- clashier — Comparative form of clashy.
- clathrin — a basketlike network of protein molecules that forms on the cell membrane in response to the attachment of ligands to receptors and becomes the inside surface of the coated vesicle during endocytosis.
- clerihew — a form of comic or satiric verse, consisting of two couplets of metrically irregular lines, containing the name of a well-known person
- clerkish — Like or resembling a clerk.
- clincher — A clincher is a fact or argument that finally proves something, settles a dispute, or helps someone achieve a victory.
- clithral — (of a classical temple) roofed over.
- clothier — a person who makes, sells, or deals in clothes or cloth
- co-chair — a person who chairs a committee, meeting, etc. jointly with another or others
- coarsish — quite coarse
- cohering — Present participle of cohere.
- coinhere — to inhere together
- corcaigh — a city and port in S Republic of Ireland, county town of Co Cork, at the mouth of the River Lee: seat of the University College of Cork (1849). Pop: 186 239 (2002)
- corniche — a coastal road, esp one built into the face of a cliff
- cothurni — a grave and elevated style of acting; tragic acting; tragedy.
- crabbish — Somewhat sour or cross; crabby.
- crankish — mildly eccentric
- crashing — (intensifier) (esp in the phrase a crashing bore)
- crawfish — A crawfish is a small shellfish with five pairs of legs which lives in rivers and streams. You can eat some types of crawfish.
- 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.
- crichton — James. 1560–82, Scottish scholar and writer, called the Admirable Crichton because of his talents
- crossish — slightly cross; peevish
- crushing — A crushing defeat, burden, or disappointment is a very great or severe one.
- decipher — to determine the meaning of (something obscure or illegible)
- desireth — Archaic third-person singular form of desire.
- dhurries — Plural form of dhurrie.
- diagraph — a device for enlarging or reducing maps, plans, etc
- diarchal — Relating to, or pertaining to, diarchy or a diarchy system.
- diarrhea — If someone has diarrhea, a lot of liquid feces comes out of their body because they are ill.
- dichroic — (of a solution or uniaxial crystal) exhibiting dichroism
- didrachm — (in ancient Greece) a silver coin worth two drachmas
- die hard — If you say that habits or attitudes die hard, you mean that they take a very long time to disappear or change, so that it may not be possible to get rid of them completely.
- die-hard — a person who vigorously maintains or defends a seemingly hopeless position, outdated attitude, lost cause, or the like.
- diehards — Plural form of diehard.
- dietrich — Marlene [mahr-ley-nuh] /mɑrˈleɪ nə/ (Show IPA), 1904–92, U.S. actress and singer, born in Germany.
- digraphs — Plural form of digraph.
- dihedral — having or formed by two planes.
- dihedron — a figure formed by two intersecting planes.
- dihybrid — the offspring of parents differing in two specific pairs of genes.