8-letter words containing g, s
- heisting — a robbery or holdup: Four men were involved in the armored car heist.
- helpings — Plural form of helping.
- hemmings — Plural form of hemming.
- herrings — Plural form of herring.
- hex sign — any of various magical symbols of usually stylized design, as those painted on barns by the Pennsylvania Dutch for protection against evil spirits and now sometimes used for purely decorative purposes.
- hexagons — Plural form of hexagon.
- hidalgos — Plural form of hidalgo.
- hidlings — in secret, secretly
- high sea — the sea or ocean beyond the three-mile limit or territorial waters of a country.
- high-res — high-resolution.
- highboys — Plural form of highboy.
- highbush — Being, or coming from, a bush of high stature (used in names of certain fruits, such as highbush blueberry and highbush cranberry).
- highmost — highest
- highness — the quality or state of being high; loftiness.
- highrise — (of a building) having a comparatively large number of stories and equipped with elevators: a high-rise apartment house.
- highspot — highlight
- hightops — Plural form of hightop.
- highways — Plural form of highway.
- hindlegs — Plural form of hindleg.
- hinglish — a variety of English incorporating elements of Hindi
- histogen — a region in a plant in which tissues differentiate.
- hocusing — Present participle of hocus.
- hogbacks — Plural form of hogback.
- hogshead — a large cask, especially one containing from 63 to 140 gallons (238 to 530 liters).
- hoisting — to raise or lift, especially by some mechanical appliance: to hoist a flag; to hoist the mainsail.
- holdings — An area of land held by lease.
- homburgs — Plural form of homburg.
- homologs — Plural form of homolog.
- hoosegow — a jail.
- horndogs — Plural form of horndog.
- hostaged — a person given or held as security for the fulfillment of certain conditions or terms, promises, etc., by another.
- hostages — Plural form of hostage.
- housings — Plural form of housing.
- housling — the growing of the climbing stem of the hop into a dense mass at the top of the poles which support it
- howlings — Plural form of howling.
- hsinking — Older Spelling. former name of Changchun.
- hugeness — extraordinarily large in bulk, quantity, or extent: a huge ship; a huge portion of ice cream.
- huggings — Plural form of hugging.
- hustings — (before 1872) the temporary platform on which candidates for the British Parliament stood when nominated and from which they addressed the electors.
- hustling — to proceed or work rapidly or energetically: to hustle about putting a house in order.
- hygenist — Alternative spelling of hygienist.
- hygienes — Also, hygienics. the science that deals with the preservation of health.
- ice ages — (often initial capital letters) the glacial epoch, especially the Pleistocene Epoch.
- icebergs — Plural form of iceberg.
- icosagon — (mathematics) A polygon with twenty sides and twenty angles.
- igdrasil — Ygdrasil
- ignatius — Saint (Ignatius Theophorus) a.d. c40–107? bishop of Antioch and Apostolic Father.
- ignorers — Plural form of ignorer.
- ignostic — One who holds to ignosticism.
- ii kings — (in versions based on the Hebrew, including the Authorized Version) one of the two books recounting the histories of the kings of Judah and Israel