8-letter words that end in ire
- autofire — (video games) A feature on a joystick that permits automatic firing, as though the player were repeatedly pressing the fire button.
- ayrshire — a historical county of SW Scotland, formerly part of Strathclyde region (1975–96), now divided into the council areas of North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, and East Ayrshire
- backfire — If a plan or project backfires, it has the opposite result to the one that was intended.
- balefire — a bonfire
- barbwire — barbed wire
- bellaire — a city in SE Texas, within the city limits of Houston.
- bob wire — barbed wire.
- brumaire — the month of mist: the second month of the French revolutionary calendar, extending from Oct 23 to Nov 21
- bushfire — an uncontrolled fire in the bush; a scrub or forest fire
- campfire — A campfire is a fire that you light out of doors when you are camping.
- camphire — henna
- car hire — the act of renting a car
- cheshire — a former administrative county of NW England; administered since 2009 by the unitary authorities of Cheshire West and Chester, and Cheshire East: low-lying and undulating, bordering on the Pennines in the east; mainly agricultural: the geographic and ceremonial county includes Warrington and Halton, which became independent unitary authorities in 1998. Area 2077 sq km (802 sq miles)
- coadmire — to admire together
- conspire — If two or more people or groups conspire to do something illegal or harmful, they make a secret agreement to do it.
- cookfire — A fire used for cooking food.
- drumfire — gunfire so heavy and continuous as to sound like the beating of drums.
- firewire — High Performance Serial Bus
- for hire — available for rental
- fox fire — the luminescence of decaying wood and plant remains, caused by various fungi
- fox-fire — organic luminescence, especially from certain fungi on decaying wood.
- frimaire — (in the French Revolutionary calendar) the third month of the year, extending from November 21 to December 20.
- gas fire — A gas fire is a fire that produces heat by burning gas.
- goodsire — a grandfather
- grimoire — a manual of magic or witchcraft used by witches and sorcerers.
- hangfire — a delay in the detonation of gunpowder or other ammunition, caused by some defect in the fuze.
- hardwire — Alternative spelling of hard-wire.
- hellfire — the fire of hell.
- hot-wire — Slang. to start the engine of (a motor vehicle) by short-circuiting the ignition.
- libraire — a bookseller
- livewire — Alternative spelling of live wire.
- log fire — a fire on which logs are burned
- mapepire — (Trinidad and Tobago) The venomous snake Lachesis muta.
- mcintire — Samuel, 1757–1811, U.S. architect and woodcarver.
- nanowire — A nanoscale rod made of semiconducting material, used in miniature transistors and some laser applications.
- needfire — spontaneous combustion.
- newswire — a service transmitted especially by teletypewriter and providing late-breaking news stories, stock-market results, or other up-to-the-minute information: We took the story off the newswires.
- overtire — to make or become too tired
- overwire — a spiral-bound book in which the spiral is covered by the spine.
- perspire — to secrete a salty, watery fluid from the sweat glands of the skin, especially when very warm as a result of strenuous exertion; sweat.
- portfire — (formerly) a slow-burning fuse used for firing rockets and fireworks and, in mining, for igniting explosives
- postfire — of or relating to the period after a fire
- quagmire — an area of miry or boggy ground whose surface yields under the tread; a bog.
- red fire — any of various combustible preparations, as one containing strontium nitrate, that burn with a vivid red light: used chiefly in pyrotechnic displays and in signaling.
- red wire — (jargon, hardware) (IBM) Patch wires installed by programmers who have no business mucking with the hardware. It is said that the only thing more dangerous than a hardware guy with a code patch is a softy with a soldering iron. Compare blue wire, yellow wire, purple wire.
- rim-fire — (of a cartridge) having the primer in a rim encircling the base. Compare center-fire (def 1).
- samphire — a European succulent plant, Crithmum maritimum, of the parsley family, having compound leaves and small, whitish flowers, growing in clefts of rock near the sea.
- sapphire — any gem variety of corundum other than the ruby, especially one of the blue varieties.
- sea fire — a bioluminescent glow produced by phosphorescent marine organisms.
- spitfire — a person, especially a girl or woman, who is of fiery temper and easily provoked to outbursts.
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