8-letter words containing s, p, h, r
- hipsters — hipsters, Chiefly British. hiphuggers (def 2).
- hoopster — a basketball player.
- horsepox — a disease in horses caused by a virus and characterized by eruptions in the mouth and on the skin.
- hospodar — a former title of governors or princes of Wallachia and Moldavia.
- hotspurs — Plural form of hotspur.
- hydropsy — (formerly) edema.
- hyperons — Plural form of hyperon.
- hypester — a person or organization that gives an idea or product intense publicity in order to promote it
- insphere — ensphere.
- isograph — (in the study of the geographical distribution of a dialect) a line drawn on a map to indicate areas having common linguistic characteristics.
- isomorph — an organism that is isomorphic with another or others.
- jodhpurs — Also called Marwar. a former state in NW India, now in Rajasthan.
- lordship — (often initial capital letter) a term of respect used when speaking of or to certain noblemen (usually preceded by his or your).
- morosoph — (obsolete) A philosophical or learned fool.
- morpheus — Classical Mythology. a son of Hypnos and the god of dreams.
- morphism — (mathematics, formally) an arrow in a category.
- murphies — Plural form of murphy.
- nephrism — chronic kidney disease, renal failure
- nephrons — Plural form of nephron.
- nishapur — a town in NE Iran: the birthplace of Omar Khayyám.
- oosphere — an unfertilized egg within an oogonium.
- papisher — a Roman Catholic
- parashah — a portion of the Torah chanted or read each week in the synagogue on the Sabbath.
- parishad — (in India) an assembly
- parishen — a parishioner
- pearlash — commercial potassium carbonate.
- perished — to die or be destroyed through violence, privation, etc.: to perish in an earthquake.
- perisher — mischievous person
- pershing — a 38-foot (12 meters) U.S. Army surface-to-surface nuclear missile with a single warhead and range of more than 1000 miles (1609 km).
- peshawar — a province in Pakistan, bordering Punjab and Kashmir on the west: a former province of British India. 28,773 sq. mi. (77,516 sq. km). Capital: Peshawar.
- phaedrus — flourished a.d. c40, Roman writer of fables.
- pharaohs — a title of an ancient Egyptian king.
- pharisee — a member of a Jewish sect that flourished during the 1st century b.c. and 1st century a.d. and that differed from the Sadducees chiefly in its strict observance of religious ceremonies and practices, adherence to oral laws and traditions, and belief in an afterlife and the coming of a Messiah.
- pheresis — apheresis, especially plasmapheresis.
- phosphor — the morning star, especially Venus.
- phrasing — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- phrenism — one of the three vital forces, which are non-physical life forces. Phrenism is the thought force, as opposed to neurism, the nerve force, and bathmism, the growth force.
- physeter — a member of the Physeter genus of creatures that includes the sperm whale
- piershed — a building located on or near a pier (piershed) or wharf (wharf shed) used for short-term storage of cargo in transit.
- pinchers — a gripping tool consisting of two pivoted limbs forming a pair of jaws and a pair of handles (usually used with pair of).
- pinscher — one of a group of related dogs including the Doberman pinscher, miniature pinscher, and affenpinscher.
- piroshki — small turnovers or dumplings with a filling, as of meat or fruit.
- pokerish — resembling a poker in stiffness
- polisher — to make smooth and glossy, especially by rubbing or friction: to polish a brass doorknob.
- porkfish — a black and gold grunt, Anisotremus virginicus, of West Indian waters.
- potsherd — a broken pottery fragment, especially one of archaeological value.
- prankish — of the nature of a prank: a prankish plan.
- precrash — of or pertaining to the period before a crash, esp of a motor vehicle; coming into effect or being deployed prior to a crash
- preshape — to shape beforehand so as to be ready for use
- preshave — a liquid preparation, usually containing alcohol, for applying to the face to dry the skin and beard before shaving with an electric razor.