8-letter words containing d, e, h, r
- drumhead — the membrane stretched upon a drum.
- druthers — one's own way, choice, or preference: If I had my druthers, I'd dance all night.
- dry hole — any well drilled for oil or gas that does not yield enough to be commercially profitable.
- durkheim — Émile [ey-meel] /eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1858–1917, French sociologist and philosopher.
- durocher — Leo Ernest ("The Lip") 1905–91, U.S. baseball player and manager.
- eberhard — Johann August (joˈhan ˈaʊɡʊst). 1739–1809, German philosopher and lexicographer, best known for his German dictionary (1795–1802)
- echiurid — any of various unsegmented marine worms of the phylum Echiura, comprising the spoonworms.
- eldritch — Weird and sinister or ghostly.
- endarchy — a central government
- endureth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of endure.
- enhydros — a piece of chalcedony that contains water
- enriched — Simple past tense and past participle of enrich.
- enshroud — Envelop completely and hide from view.
- exhorted — Simple past tense and past participle of exhort.
- fathered — a male parent.
- feedhorn — a part of a satellite dish that collects the signal reflected from the main surface reflector and channels it into a low-noise amplifier.
- feldsher — (in Russia) a medical doctor's assistant
- forehand — (in tennis, squash, etc.) of, relating to, or noting a stroke made from the same side of the body as that of the hand holding the racket, paddle, etc. Compare backhand (def 5).
- forehead — the part of the face above the eyebrows; brow.
- forkhead — the head of an arrow
- freehand — drawn or executed by hand without guiding instruments, measurements, or other aids: a freehand map.
- freehold — a town in E New Jersey: battle of Monmouth courthouse 1778.
- frighted — Simple past tense and past participle of fright.
- gathered — Simple past tense and past participle of gather.
- gearhead — A mechanical device used to increase the torque of gears.
- gheraoed — Simple past tense and past participle of gherao.
- ghiordes — a Turkish rug characterized by an uneven pile produced by the Ghiordes knot.
- goatherd — a person who tends goats.
- goderich — Viscount, title of Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon. 1782–1859, British statesman; prime minister (1827–28)
- greyhead — a person with grey hair
- grouched — Simple past tense and past participle of grouch.
- hachured — one of a series of short parallel lines drawn on a map to indicate topographic relief.
- hagrider — a person or thing that causes distressing anxiety or apprehension
- hagrides — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hagride.
- halberds — Plural form of halberd.
- haltered — Simple past tense and past participle of halter.
- hammered — shaped, formed, or ornamented by a metalworker's hammer: a hammered bowl of brass; hammered gold.
- hampered — Hinder or impede the movement or progress of.
- handlers — Plural form of handler.
- handover — the act of relinquishing property, authority, etc.: a handover of occupied territory.
- hangared — a shed or shelter.
- hankered — to have a restless or incessant longing (often followed by after, for, or an infinitive).
- harassed — stressed, tormented
- harbored — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- hard-set — firmly or rigidly set; fixed: a hard-set smile.
- hardbake — almond toffee
- hardcase — a container that has a rigid structure
- hardcore — unswervingly committed; uncompromising; dedicated: a hard-core segregationist.
- hardened — made or become hard or harder.
- hardener — a person or thing that hardens.