8-letter words containing r, i, g, h
- shirring — to draw up or gather (cloth or the like) on three or more parallel threads.
- shirting — any shirt fabric, as broadcloth or oxford.
- shopgirl — a salesgirl; female store clerk.
- shorting — having little length; not long.
- showgirl — a woman who appears in the chorus of a show, nightclub act, etc.
- showring — an area where animals are displayed for sale or competition
- sighyper — Special Interest Group on Hypertext and Multimedia of the SGML Users' Group.
- straight — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- subright — Usually, subrights. subsidiary rights, as for a literary or dramatic property.
- taghairm — a form of divination once practised in the Highlands of Scotland
- the grid — the national network of transmission lines, pipes, etc, by which electricity, gas, or water is distributed
- the ring — the sport of boxing
- therblig — (in time and motion study) any of the basic elements involved in completing a given manual operation or task that can be subjected to analysis.
- thesiger — Wilfred (Patrick). 1910–2003, British writer, who explored the Empty Quarter of Arabia (1945–50) and lived with the Iraqi marsh Arabs (1950–58). His books include Arabian Sands (1958), The Marsh Arabs (1964), and My Kenya Days (1994)
- theurgic — a system of beneficent magic practiced by the Egyptian Platonists and others.
- thirlage — an obligation imposed upon tenants of certain lands requiring them to have their grain ground at a specified mill
- thrawing — British Dialect. to throw.
- thriving — to prosper; be fortunate or successful.
- throwing — the act of projecting or casting (something) through the air, esp with a rapid motion of the arm and wrist
- tigerish — tigerlike, as in strength, fierceness, courage, or coloration.
- torching — a light to be carried in the hand, consisting of some combustible substance, as resinous wood, or of twisted flax or the like soaked with tallow or other flammable substance, ignited at the upper end.
- trashing — anything worthless, useless, or discarded; rubbish.
- triglyph — a structural member of a Doric frieze, separating two consecutive metopes, and consisting typically of a rectangular block with two vertical grooves or glyphs, and two chamfers or half grooves at the sides, together counting as a third glyph, and leaving three flat vertical bands on the face of the block.
- trigraph — a group of three letters representing a single speech sound, as eau in beau.
- trithing — riding2 .
- unbright — not bright
- vagarish — vaguely or somewhat vagarious; relating to a whim
- varginha — a city in E Brazil.
- vigorish — a charge paid on a bet, as to a bookie.
- weighers — Plural form of weigher.
- weighter — the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
- wharfing — Wharfs collectively.
- whiggery — the principles or practices of Whigs.
- whingers — Plural form of whinger.
- whirling — to turn around, spin, or rotate rapidly: The merry-go-round whirled noisily.
- whirring — to go, fly, revolve, or otherwise move quickly with a humming or buzzing sound: An electric fan whirred softly in the corner.
- worthing — to happen or betide: woe worth the day.
- writhing — to twist the body about, or squirm, as in pain, violent effort, etc.
- yukaghir — a member of a Mongoloid people of northeastern Siberia.