8-letter words containing r, h, e, i, t
- hot-wire — Slang. to start the engine of (a motor vehicle) by short-circuiting the ignition.
- hotelier — a manager or owner of a hotel or inn.
- hotliner — a person who speaks to callers on a telephone hot line.
- hotwired — Simple past tense and past participle of hotwire.
- howitzer — a cannon having a comparatively short barrel, used especially for firing shells at a high angle of elevation, as for reaching a target behind cover or in a trench.
- 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.
- hysteria — an uncontrollable outburst of emotion or fear, often characterized by irrationality, laughter, weeping, etc.
- hysteric — Usually, hysterics. a fit of uncontrollable laughter or weeping; hysteria.
- in there — in or into that place
- ingather — to gather or bring in, as a harvest.
- inherent — existing in someone or something as a permanent and inseparable element, quality, or attribute; inhering: an inherent distrust of strangers.
- inherits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inherit.
- inthrone — enthrone.
- intrench — Alternative form of entrench.
- isothere — a line on a weather map or chart connecting points that have the same mean summer temperature.
- isotherm — Meteorology. a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having equal temperature.
- jahrzeit — the anniversary of the death of a parent, sibling, child, or spouse, observed by lighting a memorial lamp or candle the night before and reciting the Kaddish at the evening service of the day before and at the morning and afternoon services of the day itself.
- lighters — Plural form of lighter.
- litharge — a yellowish or reddish, odorless, heavy, earthy, water-insoluble, poisonous solid, PbO, used chiefly in the manufacture of storage batteries, pottery, lead glass, paints, enamels, and inks.
- litherly — crafty, cunning, or mischievous
- lutherie — The craft of making stringed musical instruments.
- luthiers — Plural form of luthier.
- meredith — George, 1828–1909, English novelist and poet.
- mightier — having, characterized by, or showing superior power or strength: mighty rulers.
- misthrew — Simple past form of misthrow.
- mithered — Simple past tense and past participle of mither.
- mitscher — Marc Andrew, 1887–1947, U.S. naval officer and aviator.
- mouthier — Comparative form of mouthy.
- nephrite — Mineralogy. a compact or fibrous variety of actinolite, varying from whitish to dark green: a form of jade.
- nighters — Plural form of nighter.
- ornithes — birds considered collectively
- othering — (chiefly philosophy) The process of perceiving or portraying someone or something as fundamentally different or alien.
- otherize — other (def 13).
- overthin — too thin
- perianth — the envelope of a flower, whether calyx or corolla or both.
- perthite — a variety of feldspar containing irregular bands of albite in microcline.
- phreatic — noting or pertaining to ground water.
- prebirth — the period, usually six months, preceding a child's birth.
- prefight — of the period before a boxing match
- prehnite — a mineral, hydrous calcium aluminum silicate, Ca 2 Al 2 Si 3 O 1 0 (OH) 2 , occurring in light-green reniform aggregates or tabular crystals.
- rathripe — mature or ripe ahead of time
- redditch — a town in W central England, in N Worcestershire: designated a new town in the mid-1960s; metal-working industries. Pop: 74 803 (2001)
- redlight — a red lamp, used as a traffic signal to mean “stop.”.
- redshift — a shift toward longer wavelengths of the spectral lines emitted by a celestial object that is caused by the object moving away from the earth.
- redshirt — a high-school or college athlete kept out of varsity competition for one year to develop skills and extend eligibility. a child held back from starting kindergarten for one year, the practice of which is believed by some parents to give the child academic, athletic, and social advantages.
- regolith — mantle rock.
- restitch — one complete movement of a threaded needle through a fabric or material such as to leave behind it a single loop or portion of thread, as in sewing, embroidery, or the surgical closing of wounds.
- retching — to make efforts to vomit.
- rhaetian — of or relating to Rhaetia.
- rhematic — pertaining to the formation of words.