8-letter words containing d, e, h, r
- herodias — the second wife of Herod Antipas and the mother of Salome: she told Salome to ask Herod for the head of John the Baptist.
- hertford — a city in and the county seat of Hertfordshire, in SE England.
- hesperid — any small butterfly of the family Hesperiidae; a skipper
- highbred — of superior breed.
- hindered — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
- hinderer — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
- hiveward — (of a bee's movement) towards the hive
- hoarders — Plural form of hoarder.
- hoarhead — someone, esp an old man, with white hair
- holdover — a person or thing remaining from a former period.
- hollered — to cry aloud; shout; yell: Quit hollering into the phone.
- homebird — a person who is reluctant to leave their hometown or their childhood home, or who returns after a period of living away
- homebred — bred or raised at home; native; indigenous; domestic.
- homeward — Also, homewards. toward home.
- honoured — to hold in honor or high respect; revere: to honor one's parents.
- hoorayed — Simple past tense and past participle of hooray.
- hoovered — to clean with a vacuum cleaner.
- hordeola — sty2 .
- horngeld — a feudal tax levied on horned cattle
- hotwired — Simple past tense and past participle of hotwire.
- hounders — one of any of several breeds of dogs trained to pursue game either by sight or by scent, especially one with a long face and large drooping ears.
- hreidmar — (in the Volsunga Saga) the father of Fafnir, Otter, and Regin. He demanded wergild from the gods for killing Otter, and was killed by Fafnir when he got it.
- huddlers — Plural form of huddler.
- humoured — Simple past tense and past participle of humour.
- hundreds — a cardinal number, ten times ten.
- hundreth — Eye dialect of hundredth.
- hungered — Simple past tense and past participle of hunger.
- hunkered — Simple past tense and past participle of hunker.
- hurdlers — Plural form of hurdler.
- hurrahed — Simple past tense and past participle of hurrah.
- hurrayed — Simple past tense and past participle of hurray.
- hydrated — chemically combined with water in its molecular form.
- hydrates — Plural form of hydrate.
- hydremia — the state of having an excess of water in the blood.
- hydrides — Plural form of hydride.
- hydrogel — a gel whose liquid constituent is water.
- hydrogen — a colorless, odorless, flammable gas that combines chemically with oxygen to form water: the lightest of the known elements. Symbol: H; atomic weight: 1.00797; atomic number: 1; density: 0.0899 g/l at 0°C and 760 mm pressure.
- hydromel — a liquor consisting of honey and water that, when fermented, becomes mead.
- hypoderm — Zoology. an underlayer of epithelial cells in arthropods and certain other invertebrates that secretes substances for the overlying cuticle or exoskeleton.
- inarched — Simple past tense and past participle of inarch.
- indrench — to submerge, immerse, or drown (someone in something)
- inholder — An indweller, or anything indwelling; inhabitant; occupant.
- jarheads — Plural form of jarhead.
- jedburgh — a border town in the Borders region, in SE Scotland: ruins of an abbey.
- koshered — Simple past tense and past participle of kosher.
- landwehr — (in Germany, Austria, etc.) the part of the organized military forces of a nation that has completed a certain amount of compulsory training, and whose continuous service is required only in time of war.
- lathered — foam or froth made by a detergent, especially soap, when stirred or rubbed in water, as by a brush used in shaving or by hands in washing.
- lechered — Simple past tense and past participle of lecher.
- mahendra — (Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva) 1920–72, king of Nepal 1955–72.
- merchild — a mythical creature with the upper body of a child and the lower body of a fish