8-letter words containing w, h, r, i
- thrawing — British Dialect. to throw.
- throw in — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
- throwing — the act of projecting or casting (something) through the air, esp with a rapid motion of the arm and wrist
- twitcher — to tug or pull at with a quick, short movement; pluck: She twitched him by the sleeve.
- wardship — guardianship; custody.
- warships — Plural form of warship.
- waterish — somewhat, or tending to be, watery.
- weighers — Plural form of weigher.
- weighter — the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
- whakairo — the art of carving
- wharenui — An ornamental Maori meeting house representing the body of a tupuna, forming part of the larger marae complex.
- wharfing — Wharfs collectively.
- wherries — Plural form of wherry.
- whiffler — an attendant who clears the way for a procession.
- whiggery — the principles or practices of Whigs.
- whimbrel — a curlew, Numenius phaeopus, of both the New and Old Worlds.
- whimpers — Plural form of whimper.
- whingers — Plural form of whinger.
- whinyard — a sword
- whipbird — any of several birds of the genus Psophodes, esp P. olivaceus (eastern whipbird) and P. nigrogularis (black-throated whipbird), having a whistle ending in a whipcrack note
- whipcord — a cotton, woolen, or worsted fabric with a steep, diagonally ribbed surface.
- whippers — Plural form of whipper.
- whipster — (informal, dated) a scholastic often pedantic person, wise guy.
- whipworm — any of several parasitic nematodes of the genus Trichuris, having a long, slender, whiplike anterior end.
- whirlbat — a weapon used in medieval times
- whirling — to turn around, spin, or rotate rapidly: The merry-go-round whirled noisily.
- whirring — to go, fly, revolve, or otherwise move quickly with a humming or buzzing sound: An electric fan whirred softly in the corner.
- whiskers — whiskers, a beard.
- whiskery — whiskers, a beard.
- whispers — Plural form of whisper.
- whispery — like a whisper: a soft, whispery voice.
- 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.
- whitener — a preparation for making something white, as a bleach, dye, or polish: a bottle of shoe whitener.
- whithers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of whither.
- whitrack — a weasel; ermine or stoat.
- whitster — a person who whitens or bleaches clothes
- whittier — John Greenleaf [green-leef] /ˈgrinˌlif/ (Show IPA), 1807–92, U.S. poet.
- whittler — to cut, trim, or shape (a stick, piece of wood, etc.) by carving off bits with a knife.
- whittret — a male weasel
- winthrop — John, 1588–1649, English colonist in America: 1st governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony 1629–33, 1637–40, 1642–44, 1646–49.
- wirehair — a fox terrier having a wiry coat.
- wit-hier — a willow.
- witchery — witchcraft; magic.
- withdraw — to draw back, away, or aside; take back; remove: She withdrew her hand from his. He withdrew his savings from the bank.
- withdrew — simple past tense of withdraw.
- withered — (of a plant) Become dry and shriveled.
- witherod — a N American deciduous shrub, Viburnum nudum, of the honeysuckle family
- wordship — Lb rare The state, condition, or status of a word.
- workship — (archaic) workmanship.