8-letter words containing d, e, h, r
- hardface — an uncompromising person
- hardhead — an alloyed silver coin of Scotland, issued in the 16th and 17th centuries, equal to one and one-half pence and later to twopence.
- hardiest — capable of enduring fatigue, hardship, exposure, etc.; sturdy; strong: hardy explorers of northern Canada.
- hardinge — Henry, 1st Viscount Hardinge of Lahore. 1785–1856, British politician, soldier, and colonial administrator; governor general of India (1844–48)
- hardline — an uncompromising or unyielding stand, especially in politics.
- hardness — the state or quality of being hard: the hardness of ice.
- hardnose — a person who is tough and uncompromising
- hardware — metalware, as tools, locks, hinges, or cutlery.
- hardwire — Alternative spelling of hard-wire.
- harewood — the greenish-gray wood of the sycamore maple, used for making furniture.
- harkened — Simple past tense and past participle of harken.
- harrowed — an agricultural implement with spikelike teeth or upright disks, drawn chiefly over plowed land to level it, break up clods, root up weeds, etc.
- hayrides — Plural form of hayride.
- hazarded — Simple past tense and past participle of hazard.
- hazarder — a person who plays a gambling game with two dice
- head for — go towards, go to
- headgear — any covering for the head, especially a hat, cap, bonnet, etc.
- headmark — a characteristic
- headrace — the race, flume, or channel leading to a water wheel or the like.
- headrail — a railing on a sailing vessel, extending forward from abaft the bow to the back of the figurehead.
- headrest — a rest or support of any kind for the head.
- headring — an African head decoration and symbol of maturity
- headroom — Nautical. the clear space between two decks.
- headrope — the part of a bolt-rope attached to the head of a sail
- headrush — A sudden feeling of euphoria, especially as a result of taking drugs.
- headward — In the region or direction of the head.
- headwear — coverings for the head, especially hats.
- headword — a word, phrase, or the like, appearing as the heading of a chapter, dictionary or encyclopedia entry, etc.
- headwork — mental labor; thought.
- hebrides — a group of islands (Inner Hebrides and Outer Hebrides) off the W coast of and belonging to Scotland. About 2900 sq. mi. (7500 sq. km).
- hectored — Simple past form of hector.
- hedgerow — a row of bushes or trees forming a hedge.
- heliodor — a clear yellow variety of beryl used as a gemstone.
- hellward — towards hell
- hendrick — a male given name, form of Henry.
- heraclid — a person claiming descent from Hercules, especially one of the Dorian aristocracy of Sparta.
- heralded — (formerly) a royal or official messenger, especially one representing a monarch in an ambassadorial capacity during wartime.
- heraldic — of, relating to, or characteristic of heralds or heraldry: heraldic form; heraldic images; heraldic history; a heraldic device.
- heraldry — the science of armorial bearings.
- herbaged — covered with grass or herbage
- herdbook — A book containing the list and pedigrees of one or more herds of cattle.
- herdless — Without a herd.
- herdlike — Resembling a herd or some aspect of one, especially a propensity to follow blindly after a leader.
- herdsman — a herder; the keeper of a herd, especially of cattle or sheep.
- herdsmen — Plural form of herdsman.
- herdwick — a hardy breed of coarse-woolled sheep from NW England
- heredity — the transmission of genetic characters from parents to offspring: it is dependent upon the segregation and recombination of genes during meiosis and fertilization and results in the genesis of a new individual similar to others of its kind but exhibiting certain variations resulting from the particular mix of genes and their interactions with the environment.
- hereford — one of an English breed of red beef cattle having a white face and white body markings.
- hereward — called Hereward the Wake. 11th-century Anglo-Saxon rebel, who defended the Isle of Ely against William the Conqueror (1070–71): a subject of many legends
- herodian — of or relating to Herod the Great, his family, or its partisans.