8-letter words containing rh
- rhematic — pertaining to the formation of words.
- rheobase — the minimum electric current required to excite a given nerve or muscle.
- rheology — the study of the deformation and flow of matter.
- rheopexy — the property exhibited by certain slow-gelling, thixotropic sols of gelling more rapidly when the containing vessel is shaken gently.
- rheophil — (of organisms) liking flowing water
- rheostat — an adjustable resistor so constructed that its resistance may be changed without opening the circuit in which it is connected, thereby controlling the current in the circuit.
- rheotome — an interrupter of an electric current
- rheotron — (formerly) betatron.
- rhetoric — (in writing or speech) the undue use of exaggeration or display; bombast.
- rhiannon — the wife of Pwyll who, accused of having eaten her son, was forced as a penance to carry people on her back until vindicated by her son's return.
- rhinitis — inflammation of the nose or its mucous membrane.
- rhizopod — any of numerous protozoa of the widespread subphylum (or superclass) Rhizopoda, characterized by a pseudopod and comprising most members of the phylum Sarcodina, including the amebas and foraminifers.
- rhizopus — any zygomycetous fungus of the genus Rhizopus, esp R. nigricans, a bread mould
- rhodanic — of or relating to thiocyanic acid
- rhodesia — (as Southern Rhodesia, ) a former British colony in S Africa: declared independence 1965; name changed to Zimbabwe, 1979.
- rhomboid — an oblique-angled parallelogram with only the opposite sides equal.
- rhonchus — a wheezing or snoring sound heard upon auscultation of the chest, caused by an accumulation of mucus or other material.
- rhopalic — (of poetry) in which each successive word has one more syllable than the word before
- rhubarby — similar to or tasting like rhubarb
- rhyolite — a fine-grained igneous rock rich in silica: the volcanic equivalent of granite.
- rhythmic — cadenced; rhythmical.
- scirrhus — a firm, densely collagenous cancer.
- superhit — an extremely popular song, film, CD, play, etc
- superhot — extremely hot
- tyrrheus — a shepherd. The killing of his tame stag by Ascanius was a cause of the war between Aeneas' Trojans and the people of Latium.
- unrhymed — identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of verse.
- urheimat — the primeval habitation of a people, especially the prehistoric homeland of the speakers of a protolanguage.
- warhable — able to fight in war
- warheads — Plural form of warhead.
- warhorse — a horse used in war; charger.
- waterhen — An aquatic rail, especially a moorhen or related bird.