8-letter words containing d, i, s, h
- dweebish — Dweeby.
- echidnas — Plural form of echidna.
- enshield — to protect
- ethmoids — Plural form of ethmoid.
- famished — extremely hungry: to be famished after a hike; famished, homeless multitudes.
- fiendish — diabolically cruel and wicked.
- finished — ended or completed.
- fishpond — a small pond containing fish, often one in which edible fish are raised for commercial purposes, as for stocking lakes and streams or wholesaling.
- ghiordes — a Turkish rug characterized by an uneven pile produced by the Ghiordes knot.
- goldfish — a small, usually yellow or orange fish, Carassius auratus, of the carp family, native to China, bred in many varieties and often kept in fishbowls and pools.
- hagrides — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hagride.
- handiest — superlative form of handy: most handy.
- handlist — a list, as of the contents of a collection, containing few details
- hardiest — capable of enduring fatigue, hardship, exposure, etc.; sturdy; strong: hardy explorers of northern Canada.
- hardship — a condition that is difficult to endure; suffering; deprivation; oppression: a life of hardship.
- hasidean — Assidean.
- hasidism — the principles and practices of the Hasidim.
- hayrides — Plural form of hayride.
- headfish — ocean sunfish.
- headings — Plural form of heading.
- headsail — any of various jibs or staysails set forward of the foremost mast of a vessel.
- headship — the position of head or chief; chief authority; leadership; supremacy.
- 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).
- hedonics — the branch of psychology that deals with pleasurable and unpleasurable states of consciousness.
- hedonism — the doctrine that pleasure or happiness is the highest good.
- hedonist — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
- heelside — (board sports) the side of the board nearest the heel.
- helipads — Plural form of helipad.
- 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.
- hesperid — any small butterfly of the family Hesperiidae; a skipper
- hidalgos — Plural form of hidalgo.
- hideouts — Plural form of hideout.
- hidlings — in secret, secretly
- hidrosis — the excessive production of sweat.
- hillside — a township in NE New Jersey.
- hindcast — to test (a mathematical model) by observing whether it would have correctly predicted a historical event
- hindlegs — Plural form of hindleg.
- hindmost — furtherest behind or nearest the rear; last.
- hinduism — the common religion of India, based upon the religion of the original Aryan settlers as expounded and evolved in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad-Gita, etc., having an extremely diversified character with many schools of philosophy and theology, many popular cults, and a large pantheon symbolizing the many attributes of a single god. Buddhism and Jainism are outside the Hindu tradition but are regarded as related religions.
- hinsdale — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- histioid — histoid.
- holdings — An area of land held by lease.
- holidays — Plural form of holiday.
- hominids — any member of the group consisting of all modern and extinct humans and great apes (including gorillas, chimpanzees, and orangutans) and all their immediate ancestors.
- humidors — Plural form of humidor.
- hydatids — Plural form of hydatid.
- hydrides — Plural form of hydride.
- hydroids — Plural form of hydroid.
- hydroski — a hydrofoil attached to a seaplane to aid in takeoffs and landings.
- immeshed — enmesh.