8-letter words containing t, h, i, r
- fortieth — next after the thirty-ninth; being the ordinal number for 40.
- fortyish — approaching or around the age of 40 years.
- free hit — in certain forms of cricket, esp one-day internationals, after the bowler has bowled a no-ball, a chance for a batsman to strike a ball without the possibility of being caught out
- freights — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of freight.
- frighted — Simple past tense and past participle of fright.
- frighten — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
- frothier — Comparative form of frothy.
- frothily — In a frothy way.
- frothing — an aggregation of bubbles, as on an agitated liquid or at the mouth of a hard-driven horse; foam; spume.
- ghiberti — Lorenzo [law-ren-tsaw] /lɔˈrɛn tsɔ/ (Show IPA), 1378–1455, Florentine sculptor, goldsmith, and painter.
- girthing — Present participle of girth.
- graithly — in a graith manner
- graphite — a very common mineral, soft native carbon, occurring in black to dark-gray foliated masses, with metallic luster and greasy feel: used for pencil leads, as a lubricant, and for making crucibles and other refractories; plumbago; black lead.
- griffith — Arthur, 1872–1922, Irish nationalist leader: a founder of Sinn Fein.
- hair net — a cap of loose net, as of silk or nylon, for holding the hair in place.
- haircuts — Plural form of haircut.
- hairiest — covered with hair; having much hair.
- hairnets — Plural form of hairnet.
- hairtail — any marine spiny-finned fish of the family Trichiuridae, most common in warm seas, having a long whiplike scaleless body and long sharp teeth
- hamartia — tragic flaw.
- hard-hit — adversely affected; struck by disaster.
- hardiest — capable of enduring fatigue, hardship, exposure, etc.; sturdy; strong: hardy explorers of northern Canada.
- hardtail — blue runner.
- harpists — Plural form of harpist.
- hartline — Haldan Keffer [hawl-duh n kef-er] /ˈhɔl dən ˈkɛf ər/ (Show IPA), 1903–83, U.S. physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1967.
- hat hair — hairstyle flattened by wearing a hat
- hathoric — of or relating to Hathor.
- hattrick — Alternative spelling of hat trickt; three goals in one game.
- hauriant — (of a fish) represented as erect, with the head upward: a dolphin hauriant.
- heartier — Comparative form of hearty.
- hearties — Plural form of hearty.
- heartily — in a hearty manner; cordially: He was greeted heartily.
- hearting — Present participle of heart.
- heathier — heathery.
- hebraist — a person versed in the Hebrew language.
- heliport — a landing place for helicopters, often on the roof of a building or in some other limited area.
- hemipter — a hemipterous insect
- heraklit — (language) A distributed object-oriented language.
- heredity — the transmission of genetic characters from parents to offspring: it is dependent upon the segregation and recombination of genes during meiosis and fertilization and results in the genesis of a new individual similar to others of its kind but exhibiting certain variations resulting from the particular mix of genes and their interactions with the environment.
- hereinto — into this place.
- heretick — Obsolete form of heretic.
- heretics — Plural form of heretic.
- heretrix — a female inheritor, heiress
- herewith — along with this.
- heritage — something that is handed down from the past, as a tradition: a national heritage of honor, pride, and courage.
- heritors — Plural form of heritor.
- hermetic — made airtight by fusion or sealing.
- hermitic — a person who has withdrawn to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion.
- hermitry — a person who has withdrawn to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion.
- herniate — to protrude abnormally from an enclosed cavity or from the body so as to constitute a hernia.