8-letter words containing t, h, i, r
- herpetic — of, relating to, or caused by herpes.
- herptile — A reptile or amphibian.
- hetairai — hetaera.
- hetairia — a society or association
- hetarism — Alternative form of hetaerism.
- hidrotic — Relating to hidrosis.
- hieratic — Also, hieratical. of or relating to priests or the priesthood; sacerdotal; priestly.
- hilarity — cheerfulness; merriment; mirthfulness.
- hillfort — a hilltop fortified with ramparts and ditches, dating from the second millennium bc
- hipsters — hipsters, Chiefly British. hiphuggers (def 2).
- hirakata — a city on S Honshu, in Japan, NE of Osaka.
- hire out — to engage the services of (a person or persons) for wages or other payment: to hire a clerk.
- hirohito — ("Showa") 1901–89, emperor of Japan 1926–89.
- hirrient — a trilled sound in speech or song
- historic — well-known or important in history: a historic building; historic occasions.
- historie — Archaic spelling of history.
- histrion — (obsolete) A stage actor.
- hit rate — (architecture) The fraction of all memory reads which are satisfied from the cache.
- hitherto — up to this time; until now: a fact hitherto unknown.
- hoariest — Superlative form of hoary.
- holiatry — holism (def 2).
- horatian — of or relating to Horace.
- horatius — (Publius Horatius Cocles) Roman Legend. a hero celebrated for his defense of the bridge over the Tiber against the Etruscans.
- hormetic — of or relating to hormesis
- hornists — Plural form of hornist.
- horntail — any of various wasplike insects of the family Siricidae, the females of which have a hornlike ovipositor.
- horopito — a bushy New Zealand shrub, Pseudowintera colorata, with red aromatic peppery leaves. It possesses antifungal and antibacterial properties
- horovitz — Israel, born 1939, U.S. playwright.
- horowitz — Vladimir [vlad-uh-meer,, vla-dee-meer] /ˈvlæd əˌmɪər,, vlæˈdi mɪər/ (Show IPA), 1904–89, U.S. pianist, born in Russia.
- hot-wire — Slang. to start the engine of (a motor vehicle) by short-circuiting the ignition.
- hotelier — a manager or owner of a hotel or inn.
- hotliner — a person who speaks to callers on a telephone hot line.
- hotwired — Simple past tense and past participle of hotwire.
- howitzer — a cannon having a comparatively short barrel, used especially for firing shells at a high angle of elevation, as for reaching a target behind cover or in a trench.
- humiture — a measure of the discomfort most people feel because of the combined effects of atmospheric temperature and humidity; variously defined as Fahrenheit temperature plus some function of vapor pressure.
- humorist — a person who is skillful in the use of humor, as in writing, talking, or acting.
- hurtling — to rush violently; move with great speed: The car hurtled down the highway.
- hysteria — an uncontrollable outburst of emotion or fear, often characterized by irrationality, laughter, weeping, etc.
- hysteric — Usually, hysterics. a fit of uncontrollable laughter or weeping; hysteria.
- hystoric — Nonstandard spelling of historic.
- in short — having little length; not long.
- in there — in or into that place
- in truth — honestly, to tell the truth
- ingather — to gather or bring in, as a harvest.
- ingrowth — growth inward.
- inherent — existing in someone or something as a permanent and inseparable element, quality, or attribute; inhering: an inherent distrust of strangers.
- inherits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inherit.
- inthrall — Archaic form of enthrall.
- inthrone — enthrone.
- intrench — Alternative form of entrench.