8-letter words containing t, h, i, r
- thyrosis — any condition resulting from abnormal functioning of the thyroid gland.
- thyroxin — Biochemistry. the thyroid gland hormone that regulates the metabolic rate of the body.
- thyrsoid — having somewhat the form of a thyrsus.
- tigerish — tigerlike, as in strength, fierceness, courage, or coloration.
- tin horn — someone, especially a gambler, who pretends to be important but actually has little money, influence, or skill.
- torchier — of, relating to, or characteristic of a torch song or a torch singer.
- 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.
- torchlit — illuminated by the light of a torch or torches
- tovarich — comrade (used as a term of address in the Soviet Union).
- tracheid — an elongated, tapering xylem cell having lignified, pitted, intact walls, adapted for conduction and support. Compare vessel (def 5).
- tranship — transship
- trashing — anything worthless, useless, or discarded; rubbish.
- treefish — a rockfish, Sebastes serriceps, of waters off southern California, marked with black bands.
- treeship — the existence of a tree
- trephine — a small circular saw with a center pin mounted on a strong hollow metal shaft to which is attached a transverse handle: used in surgery to remove circular disks of bone from the skull.
- triarchy — government by three persons.
- tribrach — Prosody. a foot of three short syllables.
- trichina — a nematode, Trichinella spiralis, the adults of which live in the intestine and produce larvae that encyst in the muscle tissue, especially in pigs, rats, and humans.
- trichion — the point of intersection of the normal hairline and the middle line of the forehead.
- trichite — any of various minute, hairlike mineral bodies occurring in certain vitreous igneous rocks, especially obsidian.
- trichoid — resembling hair; hairlike.
- trichome — Botany. an outgrowth from the epidermis of plants, as a hair.
- trichord — a musical instrument with three strings
- trickish — tricky.
- triethyl — containing three ethyl groups.
- 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.
- trimorph — a substance existing in three structurally distinct forms; a trimorphous substance.
- trip-hop — a type of British electronic dance music of the 1990s, influenced by drug culture
- triphase — operating in three phases
- triphone — a group of three phonemes
- triptych — Fine Arts. a set of three panels or compartments side by side, bearing pictures, carvings, or the like.
- tristich — a strophe, stanza, or poem consisting of three lines.
- trithing — riding2 .
- trochaic — pertaining to the trochee.
- trochite — an individual section of the stalk of a fossil crinoid, resembling a small wheel
- trochoid — Geometry. a curve traced by a point on a radius or an extension of the radius of a circle that rolls, without slipping, on a curve, another circle, or a straight line. Equation: x = aθ − b sin θ, y = a − b cos θ.
- trophied — adorned with trophies.
- twitcher — to tug or pull at with a quick, short movement; pluck: She twitched him by the sleeve.
- ulbricht — Walter [vahl-tuh r] /ˈvɑl tər/ (Show IPA), 1893–1973, German Communist leader: chairman of the East German Council of State 1960–73.
- ultrahip — extremely trendy or fashionable
- unbright — not bright
- unthrift — an unthrifty person; a spendthrift
- urheimat — the primeval habitation of a people, especially the prehistoric homeland of the speakers of a protolanguage.
- waterish — somewhat, or tending to be, watery.
- weighter — the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
- whipster — (informal, dated) a scholastic often pedantic person, wise guy.
- whirlbat — a weapon used in medieval times
- whistler — James (Abbott) McNeill [muh k-neel] /məkˈnil/ (Show IPA), 1834–1903, U.S. painter and etcher, in France and England after 1855.
- whitaker — a male given name.