8-letter words containing m, i, h, r
- emperish — to damage or harm
- erethism — Excessive sensitivity or rapid reaction to stimulation of a part of the body, especially the sexual organs.
- etherism — an addiction to ether
- fishworm — an earthworm.
- frumpish — a person who is dowdy, drab, and unattractive.
- graphium — a writing stylus
- grimhild — (in the Volsunga Saga) a sorceress, the wife of Gjuki and the mother of Gudrun and Gunnar. She gave Sigurd a potion to make him forget Brynhild so that he would marry Gudrun.
- grumphie — a familiar name for a pig.
- grumpish — Surly; sullen; gruff; grumpy.
- gurmukhi — the script used for writing the Punjabi language
- haeremai — a Māori expression of welcome
- hairworm — any small, slender worm of the family Trichostrongylidae, parasitic in the alimentary canals of various animals.
- hamartia — tragic flaw.
- harmalin — chemical derived from harmala
- harmonia — the daughter of Ares and Aphrodite and wife of Cadmus.
- harmonic — pertaining to harmony, as distinguished from melody and rhythm.
- harriman — Edward Henry, 1848–1909, U.S. financier and railroad magnate.
- hebraism — an expression or construction distinctive of the Hebrew language.
- heirloom — a family possession handed down from generation to generation.
- hemipter — a hemipterous insect
- herkimer — Nicholas, 1728–77, American Revolutionary general.
- hermetic — made airtight by fusion or sealing.
- hermione — the daughter of Menelaus and Helen.
- hermitic — a person who has withdrawn to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion.
- hermitry — a person who has withdrawn to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion.
- hetarism — Alternative form of hetaerism.
- hiranuma — Baron Kiichiro [kee-ee-chee-raw] /kiˈi tʃiˌrɔ/ (Show IPA), 1867?–1952, Japanese statesman.
- homebird — a person who is reluctant to leave their hometown or their childhood home, or who returns after a period of living away
- homegirl — a girl or woman from the same locality as oneself.
- homelier — Comparative form of homely.
- homering — Present participle of homer.
- hormesis — Stimulation by the use of a low concentration of a toxin.
- hormetic — of or relating to hormesis
- hormonic — Biochemistry. any of various internally secreted compounds, as insulin or thyroxine, formed in endocrine glands, that affect the functions of specifically receptive organs or tissues when transported to them by the body fluids.
- hreidmar — (in the Volsunga Saga) the father of Fafnir, Otter, and Regin. He demanded wergild from the gods for killing Otter, and was killed by Fafnir when he got it.
- humidors — Plural form of humidor.
- humiture — a measure of the discomfort most people feel because of the combined effects of atmospheric temperature and humidity; variously defined as Fahrenheit temperature plus some function of vapor pressure.
- humoring — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- humorism — (medicine, historical) The theory of the influence of the humors in the production of disease.
- humorist — a person who is skillful in the use of humor, as in writing, talking, or acting.
- hydremia — the state of having an excess of water in the blood.
- ihimaera — Witi (ˈwɪtɪ), full name Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler. born 1944, New Zealand Māori novelist and short-story writer; his novels include The Whale Rider (1987) and The Uncle's Story (2002)
- inchworm — measuringworm.
- irishism — a custom, manner, practice, idiom, etc., characteristic of the Irish.
- irishman — a man born in Ireland or of Irish ancestry.
- isarithm — isopleth.
- isomorph — an organism that is isomorphic with another or others.
- isotherm — Meteorology. a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having equal temperature.
- jeremiah — a Major Prophet of the 6th and 7th centuries b.c.
- kashmiri — a native or inhabitant of Kashmir.