8-letter words containing t, h, r, a
- farthing — a former bronze coin of Great Britain, equal to one-fourth of a British penny: withdrawn in 1961.
- fathered — a male parent.
- fatherly — of, like, or befitting a father.
- feathers — an apparatus for splitting stone, consisting of two tapered bars (feathers) inserted into a hole drilled into the stone, between which a narrow wedge (plug) is hammered to spread them.
- feathery — clothed or covered with feathers; feathered.
- fire hat — a helmet worn by a firefighter as a defense against falling materials from burning structures.
- flaherty — Robert Joseph, 1884–1951, U.S. pioneer in the production of documentary motion pictures.
- fortrash — (abuse, language) /for'trash/ Hackerism for the Fortran language, referring to its primitive design, gross and irregular syntax, limited control constructs, and slippery, exception-filled semantics.
- franchot — a male given name, form of Francis.
- fraughts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fraught.
- gathered — Simple past tense and past participle of gather.
- gatherer — to bring together into one group, collection, or place: to gather firewood; to gather the troops.
- goatherd — a person who tends goats.
- graithly — in a graith manner
- grantham — a town in E England, in Lincolnshire: birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton and Margaret Thatcher. Pop: 34 592 (2001)
- 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.
- gray hat — a hacker who violates the security of a system without true malicious intent but often without the prior knowledge or consent of the owner or developer, and who later reports system vulnerabilities to the authorities, sometimes for personal profit.
- groaneth — Archaic third-person singular form of groan.
- haftarah — a portion of the Prophets that is chanted or read in the synagogue on the Sabbath and holy days immediately after the Parashah.
- 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
- haltered — Simple past tense and past participle of halter.
- halteres — Plural form of haltere.
- hamartia — tragic flaw.
- hampster — Alternative form of hamster.
- hamsters — Plural form of hamster.
- handcart — a small cart drawn or pushed by hand.
- hanratty — James. 1936–62, Englishman executed, despite conflicting evidence, for a murder on the A6 road. Subsequent public concern played a major part in the abolition of capital punishment in Britain. New DNA evidence led to an appeal by Hanratty's supporters being dismissed in 2002
- haphtara — the part of the Prophets read in synagogue services on the Sabbath and certain major holy days: the selection is related to the part of the Pentateuch read just before it
- hapteron — a structure by which a fungus, aquatic plant, or algae colony attaches to an object; a holdfast.
- hard hat — protective helmet
- hard put — not soft; solid and firm to the touch; unyielding to pressure and impenetrable or almost impenetrable.
- hard top — A hard top is a vehicle that has a permanent rigid roof.
- hard-hat — a protective helmet of metal or plastic, especially as worn by construction or factory workers.
- hard-hit — adversely affected; struck by disaster.
- hard-put — hard (def 57).
- hard-set — firmly or rigidly set; fixed: a hard-set smile.
- hardboot — a horse-racing enthusiast.
- hardhats — Plural form of hardhat.
- hardiest — capable of enduring fatigue, hardship, exposure, etc.; sturdy; strong: hardy explorers of northern Canada.
- hardtack — a hard, saltless biscuit, formerly much used aboard ships and for army rations.
- hardtail — blue runner.
- hardtops — Plural form of hardtop.
- harlotry — prostitution.
- harmosty — the office of a harmost
- haroseth — a mixture of chopped nuts and apples, wine, and spices that is eaten at the Seder meal on Passover: traditionally regarded as symbolic of the mortar used by Israelite slaves in Egypt.
- harpists — Plural form of harpist.