8-letter words containing ear
- fearsome — causing fear: a fearsome noise.
- firearms — Plural form of firearm.
- footgear — covering for the feet, as shoes, boots, etc.
- footwear — articles to be worn on the feet, as shoes, slippers, or boots.
- forbeare — Archaic spelling of forbear.
- forbears — Plural form of forbear.
- forearms — Plural form of forearm.
- forebear — Usually, forebears. ancestors; forefathers.
- forswear — to reject or renounce under oath: to forswear an injurious habit.
- forweary — to exhaust
- gap year — a period of time, usually an academic or calendar year, in which a student takes a break from school to travel, work, or volunteer, typically after ending high school and before starting college.
- gearcase — a protective casing for the gear mechanism of a vehicle or piece of machinery
- gearhead — A mechanical device used to increase the torque of gears.
- gearings — Plural form of gearing.
- gearless — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
- genearch — a chief of a family or tribe.
- give ear — to give attention, esp. favorable attention; listen; heed
- glue ear — accumulation of fluid in the middle ear in children, caused by infection and sometimes resulting in deafness
- goodyear — Charles, 1800–60, U.S. inventor: developer of the process of vulcanizing rubber.
- headgear — any covering for the head, especially a hat, cap, bonnet, etc.
- headwear — coverings for the head, especially hats.
- hear out — listen to the end
- hearable — to perceive by the ear: Didn't you hear the doorbell?
- hearings — Plural form of hearing.
- hearkens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hearken.
- hearsays — unverified, unofficial information gained or acquired from another and not part of one's direct knowledge: I pay no attention to hearsay.
- hearsing — Present participle of hearse.
- heartake — Rare spelling of heartache.
- heartens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hearten.
- heartful — An amount of emotion considered to be present in the heart.
- 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.
- heartlet — a little heart
- hot tear — a crack formed in hot metal during cooling, caused by an improper pouring temperature or undue restraint.
- in clear — (of a message, etc) not in code
- in tears — crying, weeping
- inhearse — (transitive) To place into, or as if into, a hearse or coffin.
- karearea — a New Zealand falcon, Falco novaeseelandiae
- knitwear — clothing made of knitted fabric.
- learners — Plural form of learner.
- learning — knowledge acquired by systematic study in any field of scholarly application.
- linear a — an ancient system of writing, not yet deciphered, inscribed on clay tablets, pottery, and other objects found at Minoan sites on Crete and other Greek islands.
- linear b — an ancient system of writing representing a very early form of Greek, deciphered by Michael Ventris chiefly from clay tablets found at Knossos on Crete and at Pylos.
- linearly — of, consisting of, or using lines: linear design.
- lochearn — a city in N Maryland, near Baltimore.
- low gear — the arrangement of gears providing little speed but great torque
- man-year — a unit of measurement, especially in accountancy, based on a standard number of man-days in a year of work.
- manswear — (transitive, UK dialectal) To swear falsely; perjure oneself.