8-letter words containing r, h, e, o
- exhorted — Simple past tense and past participle of exhort.
- exhorter — (rare) A person who exhorts.
- exophora — Reference in a text or utterance to something external to it, which is only fully intelligible in terms of information about the extralinguistic situation.
- exorheic — (of a lake or basin) Externally drained; having one or more outlets.
- exotherm — (chemistry) Any exothermic compound.
- farouche — fierce.
- feedhorn — a part of a satellite dish that collects the signal reflected from the main surface reflector and channels it into a low-noise amplifier.
- firehook — (dated, historical) a long pole with a hook at the end, used to pull down buildings and roof thatch to suppress a fire.
- firehose — Alternative spelling of fire hose.
- for hire — available for rental
- forehand — (in tennis, squash, etc.) of, relating to, or noting a stroke made from the same side of the body as that of the hand holding the racket, paddle, etc. Compare backhand (def 5).
- forehead — the part of the face above the eyebrows; brow.
- forehent — to seize in advance
- forehock — The hock from the foreleg of a pig.
- forehoof — the hoof of a front leg.
- foreship — the prow or forepart of a ship
- foreshot — The spirits that first come over when an alcoholic liquid is distilled.
- foreshow — to show beforehand.
- forewish — (transitive) To wish or desire beforehand.
- forhaile — to distress
- forkhead — the head of an arrow
- forsythe — A descendent of Algol 60, intended to be as uniform and general as possible, while retaining the basic character of its progenitor. Forsythe features higher-order procedures and intersection types.
- fortieth — next after the thirty-ninth; being the ordinal number for 40.
- fourchee — a type of heraldic cross
- freehold — a town in E New Jersey: battle of Monmouth courthouse 1778.
- frothery — an insubstantial thing; a triviality
- frothier — Comparative form of frothy.
- gemshorn — a type of horn with carved tone holes, traditionally made from the horn of the chamois
- geotherm — a line or surface within or on the earth connecting points of equal temperature
- gheraoed — Simple past tense and past participle of gherao.
- gheraoes — Plural form of gherao.
- ghiordes — a Turkish rug characterized by an uneven pile produced by the Ghiordes knot.
- goatherd — a person who tends goats.
- goderich — Viscount, title of Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon. 1782–1859, British statesman; prime minister (1827–28)
- groaneth — Archaic third-person singular form of groan.
- groschen — a zinc or aluminum coin of Austria until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a schilling.
- grouched — Simple past tense and past participle of grouch.
- grouches — Plural form of grouch.
- grub hoe — a heavy hoe for digging up roots, stumps, etc.
- habanero — an extremely pungent small pepper, the fruit of a variety of Capsicum chinense, used in cookery.
- halosere — a plant community that originates and develops in conditions of high salinity
- hamerkop — Alternative spelling of hammerkop.
- handover — the act of relinquishing property, authority, etc.: a handover of occupied territory.
- hangover — the disagreeable physical aftereffects of drunkenness, such as a headache or stomach disorder, usually felt several hours after cessation of drinking.
- hannover — a member of the royal family that ruled Great Britain under that name from 1714 to 1901.
- hapteron — a structure by which a fungus, aquatic plant, or algae colony attaches to an object; a holdfast.
- harbored — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- harborer — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- hardcore — unswervingly committed; uncompromising; dedicated: a hard-core segregationist.
- hardnose — a person who is tough and uncompromising