8-letter words containing o, r, s, i
- goodsire — a grandfather
- gorillas — Plural form of gorilla.
- goriness — covered or stained with gore; bloody.
- gossiper — idle talk or rumor, especially about the personal or private affairs of others: the endless gossip about Hollywood stars.
- gossipry — Spiritual relationship or affinity; gossiprede; special intimacy.
- gracioso — a buffoon or clown in Spanish comedy.
- gracious — pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous.
- gratious — Obsolete form of gracious.
- grazioso — graceful; flowing.
- grevious — Misspelling of grievous.
- grierson — John. 1898–1972, Scottish film director. He coined the noun documentary, of which genre his Industrial Britain (1931) and Song of Ceylon (1934) are notable examples
- grievous — causing grief or great sorrow: grievous news.
- griffons — Plural form of griffon.
- griseous — gray; pearl-gray.
- grissino — Italian breadstick
- griswold — Erwin Nathaniel, 1904–1994, U.S. lawyer and educator: dean of Harvard University Law School 1950–67.
- 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.
- grunions — Plural form of grunion.
- harrison — Benjamin, 1726?–91, American political leader (father of William Henry Harrison).
- 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.
- hickorys — a city in W North Carolina.
- hidrosis — the excessive production of sweat.
- historic — well-known or important in history: a historic building; historic occasions.
- historie — Archaic spelling of history.
- histrion — (obsolete) A stage actor.
- hoariest — Superlative form of hoary.
- honorius — (Giacomo Savelli) 1210–87, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1285–87.
- horatius — (Publius Horatius Cocles) Roman Legend. a hero celebrated for his defense of the bridge over the Tiber against the Etruscans.
- horizons — Plural form of horizon.
- hormesis — Stimulation by the use of a low concentration of a toxin.
- hornists — Plural form of hornist.
- hourlies — Plural form of hourly.
- humidors — Plural form of humidor.
- 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.
- hydroids — Plural form of hydroid.
- hydroski — a hydrofoil attached to a seaplane to aid in takeoffs and landings.
- hystoric — Nonstandard spelling of historic.
- ichorous — Classical Mythology. an ethereal fluid flowing in the veins of the gods.
- idocrase — vesuvianite.
- idoliser — (UK) alternative spelling of idolizer.