8-letter words containing ris
- marishes — a marsh.
- memorise — to commit to memory; learn by heart: to memorize a poem.
- memorist — a person who has a remarkably retentive memory.
- meristem — embryonic tissue in plants; undifferentiated, growing, actively dividing cells.
- meristic — of, relating to, or divided into segments or somites.
- metrists — Plural form of metrist.
- mid-rise — (of a building) having a moderately large number of stories, usually five to ten, and equipped with elevators.
- misprise — to despise; undervalue; slight; scorn.
- moonrise — the rising of the moon above the horizon.
- morrison — Herbert Stanley, 1888–1965, English labor leader and statesman.
- motorise — Alternative spelling of motorize.
- motorist — a person who drives or travels in a privately owned automobile.
- myristic — (rare) Pertaining to nutmeg.
- naderism — the philosophy and beliefs of consumerism and environmentalism preached by Ralph Nader
- naturism — a person who appreciates the beauty and benefits of nature.
- naturist — a person who appreciates the beauty and benefits of nature.
- nephrism — chronic kidney disease, renal failure
- notarise — to certify (a document, contract, etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public.
- nuristan — a mountainous region in NE Afghanistan. 5000 sq. mi. (12,950 sq. km).
- ockerism — the conduct or actions that are characteristic of an ocker
- oneirism — (rare) Dream-like experiences or qualities; dreaminess.
- oriskany — a village in central New York, near Utica: battle 1777.
- parishad — (in India) an assembly
- parishen — a parishioner
- parisian — a native or inhabitant of Paris, France.
- pelorism — a floral mutation involving the formation of peloric flowers
- perisarc — the horny or chitinous outer case or covering protecting the soft parts of hydrozoans.
- perished — to die or be destroyed through violence, privation, etc.: to perish in an earthquake.
- perisher — mischievous person
- pharisee — a member of a Jewish sect that flourished during the 1st century b.c. and 1st century a.d. and that differed from the Sadducees chiefly in its strict observance of religious ceremonies and practices, adherence to oral laws and traditions, and belief in an afterlife and the coming of a Messiah.
- pleurisy — inflammation of the pleura, with or without a liquid effusion in the pleural cavity, characterized by a dry cough and pain in the affected side.
- pokerish — resembling a poker in stiffness
- polarise — to cause polarization in.
- poristic — of or relating to a porism
- priscian — flourished a.d. c500, Latin grammarian.
- prismoid — a solid having sides that are trapezoids and bases or ends that are parallel and similar but not congruent polygons. Compare prism (def 2).
- prisoner — a person who is confined in prison or kept in custody, especially as the result of legal process.
- prissily — excessively proper; affectedly correct; prim.
- pristane — a colourless combustible liquid
- pristina — the capital city of Kosovo, S Serbia, Serbia and Montenegro: site of 1389 battle against Turks and center of modern Kosovar (Albanian) separatist movement.
- pristine — having its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied.
- puristic — strict observance of or insistence on purity in language, style, etc.
- queerish — Somewhat queer.
- querists — Plural form of querist.
- reprisal — (in warfare) retaliation against an enemy, for injuries received, by the infliction of equal or greater injuries.
- reprised — Usually, reprises. Law. an annual deduction, duty, or payment out of a manor or estate, as an annuity or the like.
- reverist — someone who tends to daydream or is inclined to reveries
- rigorism — extreme strictness.
- risibles — a person's sense of humour
- riskless — free of risk