8-letter words containing ris
- risoluto — to be played firmly and decisively
- risorius — a facial muscle responsible for smiling
- rispetto — a form of folk verse from Tuscany
- sacristy — an apartment in or a building connected with a church or a religious house, in which the sacred vessels, vestments, etc., are kept.
- safarist — a person on safari
- satirise — to attack or ridicule with satire.
- satirist — a writer of satires.
- satyrisk — a small satyr
- sea risk — Often, sea risks. the hazard of traveling or transporting by sea.
- silurist — a member of the ancient Silurian tribe
- solarism — the interpretation of myths by reference to the sun, especially such interpretation carried to an extreme.
- squarish — approximately square.
- squirish — like or appropriate to a squire
- subtrist — slightly sad; not completely sad
- surprise — to strike or occur to with a sudden feeling of wonder or astonishment, as through unexpectedness: Her beauty surprised me.
- tamarisk — any Old World tropical plant of the genus Tamarix, especially T. gallica, an ornamental Mediterranean shrub or small tree having slender, feathery branches.
- tantrism — (italics) Hinduism. any of several books of esoteric doctrine regarding rituals, disciplines, meditation, etc., composed in the form of dialogues between Shiva and his Shakti; Agama.
- tenorist — a person who sings tenor.
- theorise — to form a theory or theories.
- theorist — a person who theorizes.
- tigerish — tigerlike, as in strength, fierceness, courage, or coloration.
- tigerism — an arrogant and showy manner
- tourista — traveler's diarrhea, especially as experienced by some visitors to Latin America.
- touristy — pertaining to or characteristic of tourists: a touristy attitude.
- trisemic — relating to a triseme
- triskele — a symbolic figure consisting of three legs, arms, or branches radiating from a common center, as the device of Sicily and the Isle of Man.
- trisomic — having one chromosome in addition to the usual diploid number.
- trispast — an ancient hoist or hauling device having three blocks.
- tristate — pertaining to a territory made up of three adjoining states: a tristate league.
- tristeza — a disease of certain citrus trees, characterized by yellowed leaves, wilting, and root destruction, caused by a virus.
- tristful — full of sadness; sorrowful.
- tristich — a strophe, stanza, or poem consisting of three lines.
- tristram — one of the knights of the Round Table, whose love for Iseult, wife of King Mark, is the subject of many romances.
- turistas — traveler's diarrhea, especially as experienced by some visitors to Latin America.
- tutorism — the office or duties of a tutor
- unarisen — not having risen
- unprison — to release from prison.
- uprising — an act of rising up.
- vagarish — vaguely or somewhat vagarious; relating to a whim
- valorise — to provide for the maintaining of the value or price of (a commercial commodity) by a government's purchasing the commodity at the fixed price or by its making special loans to the producers.
- vaporise — to cause to change into vapor.
- vaporish — of the nature of or resembling vapor: a vaporish chiffon dress.
- varistor — a resistor whose resistance automatically varies in proportion to the voltage of the current through it.
- veristic — the theory that rigid representation of truth and reality is essential to art and literature, and therefore the ugly and vulgar must be included.
- vibrissa — one of the stiff, bristly hairs growing about the mouth of certain animals, as a whisker of a cat.
- vigorish — a charge paid on a bet, as to a bookie.
- votarist — a person who is bound by solemn religious vows, as a monk or a nun.
- warisons — Plural form of warison.
- waterish — somewhat, or tending to be, watery.
- wristlet — a band worn around the wrist, especially to protect it from cold.