8-letter words containing i, s, r
- grossing — without deductions; total, as the amount of sales, salary, profit, etc., before taking deductions for expenses, taxes, or the like (opposed to net2. ): gross earnings; gross sales.
- groupies — Plural form of groupie.
- groupism — the tendency to conform to the general thinking and behavior of a group.
- groupist — a follower of a group
- grousing — to grumble; complain: I've never met anyone who grouses so much about his work.
- growings — Plural form of growing.
- grubbies — a small sculpin, Myxocephalus aenaeus, inhabiting waters off the coast of New England.
- gruffish — Somewhat gruff.
- grumpish — Surly; sullen; gruff; grumpy.
- grundies — men's underpants
- grunions — Plural form of grunion.
- guilders — Plural form of guilder.
- guisarme — a shafted weapon having as a head a curved, double-edged blade with a beak at the back.
- guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
- gunfires — Plural form of gunfire.
- guruship — The status of a guru.
- hagrides — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hagride.
- haircuts — Plural form of haircut.
- hairiest — covered with hair; having much hair.
- hairless — without hair; bald: his pink hairless pate.
- hairnets — Plural form of hairnet.
- hairpins — Plural form of hairpin.
- hardiest — capable of enduring fatigue, hardship, exposure, etc.; sturdy; strong: hardy explorers of northern Canada.
- hardship — a condition that is difficult to endure; suffering; deprivation; oppression: a life of hardship.
- harelips — Plural form of harelip.
- hargeisa — a city in NW Somalia.
- harpings — any of several horizontal members at the ends of a vessel for holding cant frames in position until the shell planking or plating is attached.
- harpists — Plural form of harpist.
- harriers — Plural form of harrier.
- harrison — Benjamin, 1726?–91, American political leader (father of William Henry Harrison).
- harshing — Present participle of harsh.
- hauliers — Plural form of haulier.
- hayrides — Plural form of hayride.
- hearings — Plural form of hearing.
- hearsing — Present participle of hearse.
- hearties — Plural form of hearty.
- hebraism — an expression or construction distinctive of the Hebrew language.
- hebraist — a person versed in the Hebrew language.
- hebrides — a group of islands (Inner Hebrides and Outer Hebrides) off the W coast of and belonging to Scotland. About 2900 sq. mi. (7500 sq. km).
- heirless — a person who inherits or has a right of inheritance in the property of another following the latter's death.
- heirship — the position or rights of an heir; right of inheritance; inheritance.
- heresies — Plural form of heresy.
- heretics — Plural form of heretic.
- herisson — A beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot, used to block up a passage.
- heritors — Plural form of heritor.
- herodias — the second wife of Herod Antipas and the mother of Salome: she told Salome to ask Herod for the head of John the Baptist.
- heroines — Plural form of heroine.
- heroship — The character or personality of a hero.
- herrings — Plural form of herring.
- hesperia — a poetic name used by the ancient Greeks for Italy and by the Romans for Spain or beyond