8-letter words containing m, i, h, r
- pichurim — a Brazilian laurel tree
- rawmaish — foolish or exaggerated talk; nonsense
- rhematic — pertaining to the formation of words.
- rhomboid — an oblique-angled parallelogram with only the opposite sides equal.
- rhythmic — cadenced; rhythmical.
- richmond — a state in the E United States, on the Atlantic coast: part of the historical South. 40,815 sq. mi. (105,710 sq. km). Capital: Richmond. Abbreviation: VA (for use with zip code), Va.
- rightism — conservatism, especially in politics.
- samphire — a European succulent plant, Crithmum maritimum, of the parsley family, having compound leaves and small, whitish flowers, growing in clefts of rock near the sea.
- schirmer — Gustav [goo s-tahf] /ˈgʊs tɑf/ (Show IPA), 1829–93, born in Germany, and his sons Rudolph Edward, 1859–1919, and Gustave, 1864–1907, U.S. music publishers.
- semiarch — a half arch.
- semihard — partly hard; not completely hard
- seraphim — a plural of seraph.
- shamshir — a curved Persian saber having one edge on the convex side.
- shimmery — shimmering; shining softly.
- shipworm — any of various wormlike marine bivalve mollusks that burrow into the timbers of ship, wharves, etc.
- shireman — a sheriff
- shrimper — a shrimp fisherman.
- skirmish — Military. a fight between small bodies of troops, especially advanced or outlying detachments of opposing armies.
- smartish — rather smart; fairly intelligent or quick-witted: smartish answers on a quiz.
- smithery — the work, craft, or workshop of a smith.
- sopherim — scribe1 (def 3).
- stroheim — Erich von [er-ik] /ˈɛr ɪk/ (Show IPA), 1885–1957, U.S. actor and director, born in Austria.
- taghairm — a form of divination once practised in the Highlands of Scotland
- teraphim — small images or other things representing household gods, used among ancient Semitic peoples
- theremin — a musical instrument with electronic tone generation, the pitch and tone volume being controlled by the distance between the player's hands and two metal rods serving as antennas.
- thermion — an ion emitted by incandescent material.
- thermite — a mixture of finely-divided metallic aluminum and ferric oxide that when ignited produces extremely high temperatures as the result of the union of the aluminum with the oxygen of the oxide: used in welding, incendiary bombs, etc.
- thrombin — an enzyme of the blood plasma that catalyzes the conversion of fibrinogen to fibrin, the last step of the blood clotting process.
- trichome — Botany. an outgrowth from the epidermis of plants, as a hair.
- trimorph — a substance existing in three structurally distinct forms; a trimorphous substance.
- urheimat — the primeval habitation of a people, especially the prehistoric homeland of the speakers of a protolanguage.
- urumiyeh — Lake. Urmia, Lake.
- whimbrel — a curlew, Numenius phaeopus, of both the New and Old Worlds.
- whimpers — Plural form of whimper.
- whipworm — any of several parasitic nematodes of the genus Trichuris, having a long, slender, whiplike anterior end.
- wormfish — any of several small, slender fishes of the family Microdesmidae, inhabiting tropical marine waters.
- zhitomir — a city in central Ukraine, W of Kiev.