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8-letter words containing r, h, o, d

  • phoronid — any member of the invertebrate phylum Phoronida, wormlike marine animals living in a chitinous tube and having an anterior structure bearing ciliated tentacles for feeding.
  • potsherd — a broken pottery fragment, especially one of archaeological value.
  • proudhon — Pierre Joseph [pyer zhaw-zef] /pyɛr ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1809–65, French socialist and writer.
  • proudish — rather proud
  • prud'hon — Pierre Paul [pyer pawl] /pyɛr pɔl/ (Show IPA), (Pierre Prudon) 1758–1823, French painter.
  • randolph — A(sa) Philip, 1889–1979, U.S. labor leader: president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1925–68.
  • redhorse — any of several suckers of the genus Moxostoma, found in the fresh waters of North America, often having reddish fins.
  • redshort — (of metal, iron, steel, etc) to become brittle at red-hot temperatures
  • reinhold — a male given name.
  • rhabdoid — a rod-shaped structure found in the cells of some plants and animals
  • rhapsode — in ancient Greece, a person who recited rhapsodies, esp. one who recited epic poems as a profession
  • rhapsody — Music. an instrumental composition irregular in form and suggestive of improvisation.
  • rhizopod — any of numerous protozoa of the widespread subphylum (or superclass) Rhizopoda, characterized by a pseudopod and comprising most members of the phylum Sarcodina, including the amebas and foraminifers.
  • rhodanic — of or relating to thiocyanic acid
  • rhodesia — (as Southern Rhodesia, ) a former British colony in S Africa: declared independence 1965; name changed to Zimbabwe, 1979.
  • rhomboid — an oblique-angled parallelogram with only the opposite sides equal.
  • 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.
  • road hog — a driver who obstructs traffic by occupying parts of two lanes.
  • roadshow — travelling entertainment
  • rochdale — a borough of Greater Manchester, in N England: site of one of the earliest cooperative societies 1844.
  • rondache — a small, round shield
  • roothold — attachment of a plant to soil by means of its roots; support of a plant through the growing and spreading of its roots.
  • roundish — somewhat round: a roundish man; roundish furniture.
  • rowdyish — like or characteristic of a rowdy.
  • sargodha — a city in NE Pakistan.
  • schröder — Gerhard (ˈɡerhɑt). born 1944, German Social Democrat politician; chancellor of Germany from 1998–2005
  • scorched — slightly burned
  • shadower — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
  • sherwood — Robert Emmet [em-it] /ˈɛm ɪt/ (Show IPA), 1896–1955, U.S. dramatist.
  • shoulder — the part of each side of the body in humans, at the top of the trunk, extending from each side of the base of the neck to the region where the arm articulates with the trunk.
  • showyard — a yard where cattle and machinery are displayed
  • shrouded — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
  • sorehead — a disgruntled or vindictive person, especially an unsportsmanlike loser: Don't be such a sorehead, they won fair and square.
  • spheroid — a solid geometrical figure similar in shape to a sphere, as an ellipsoid.
  • subchord — a part of a chord
  • the road — all the cities and towns visited by touring theatrical companies, musicians, etc.
  • the word — the proper or most fitting expression
  • theodora — a.d. 508–548, Byzantine empress: consort of Justinian I.
  • theodore — pope a.d. 897.
  • theropod — any member of the suborder Theropoda, comprising carnivorous dinosaurs that had short forelimbs and walked or ran on their hind legs.
  • thraldom — the state of being a thrall; bondage; slavery; servitude.
  • threnode — threnody.
  • threnody — a poem, speech, or song of lamentation, especially for the dead; dirge; funeral song.
  • throated — having a throat of a specified kind (usually used in combination): a yellow-throated warbler.
  • throbbed — to beat with increased force or rapidity, as the heart under the influence of emotion or excitement; palpitate.
  • thurmond — (James) Strom [strom] /strɒm/ (Show IPA), 1902–2003, U.S. politician.
  • thyrsoid — having somewhat the form of a thyrsus.
  • toadrush — an annual rush growing in damp lowlands
  • trichoid — resembling hair; hairlike.
  • trichord — a musical instrument with three strings
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