8-letter words containing h, a, n, d
- hangared — a shed or shelter.
- hangbird — a bird that builds a hanging nest, especially the Baltimore oriole.
- hankered — to have a restless or incessant longing (often followed by after, for, or an infinitive).
- happened — to take place; come to pass; occur: Something interesting is always happening in New York.
- hard-won — If you describe something that someone has gained or achieved as hard-won, you mean that they worked hard to gain or achieve it.
- hardened — made or become hard or harder.
- hardener — a person or thing that hardens.
- 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
- harkened — Simple past tense and past participle of harken.
- harridan — a scolding, vicious woman; hag; shrew.
- hasidean — Assidean.
- hastened — to move or act with haste; proceed with haste; hurry: to hasten to a place.
- hatbands — Plural form of hatband.
- hatstand — (UK) A device used to store hats upon. Usually made of wood and standing at least five foot tall, they have a single pole making up most of the height, with a sturdy base to prevent toppling, and an array of lengthy pegs at the top for placement of hats.
- haunched — the hip.
- haviland — John, 1792–1852, English architect, in the U.S.
- headband — a band worn around the head; fillet.
- headbang — To engage in headbanging, the vigorous movement of the head in time to music.
- headhunt — a headhunting expedition: The men left the village to go on a headhunt.
- headings — Plural form of heading.
- headland — a promontory extending into a large body of water.
- headline — a heading in a newspaper for any written material, sometimes for an illustration, to indicate subject matter, set in larger type than that of the copy and containing one or more words and lines and often several banks.
- headling — (obsolete) An equal; a fellow; mate.
- headlong — with the head foremost; headfirst: to plunge headlong into the water.
- headnote — a brief summary, comment, or explanation that precedes a chapter, report, etc.
- headring — an African head decoration and symbol of maturity
- headsman — a public executioner who beheads condemned persons.
- headsmen — Plural form of headsman.
- headwind — a wind opposed to the course of a moving object, especially an aircraft or other vehicle (opposed to tailwind).
- hendeca- — eleven
- herdsman — a herder; the keeper of a herd, especially of cattle or sheep.
- herodian — of or relating to Herod the Great, his family, or its partisans.
- highland — a region in N Scotland, including a number of the Inner Hebrides. 9710 sq. mi. (25,148 sq. km).
- hindcast — to test (a mathematical model) by observing whether it would have correctly predicted a historical event
- hindhead — the back of the head
- hindutva — (in India) a political movement advocating Hindu nationalism and the establishment of a Hindu state
- hindward — backward
- hinsdale — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- hoagland — Edward, born 1932, U.S. novelist and essayist.
- hoarding — a supply or accumulation that is hidden or carefully guarded for preservation, future use, etc.: a vast hoard of silver.
- hollande — François (frɑ̃swa). born 1954, French socialist politician, president of France (2012–17)
- hollands — John Philip, 1840–1914, Irish inventor in the U.S.
- homeland — one's native land.
- honduran — a republic in NE Central America. 43,277 sq. mi. (112,087 sq. km). Capital: Tegucigalpa.
- honduras — a republic in NE Central America. 43,277 sq. mi. (112,087 sq. km). Capital: Tegucigalpa.
- honorand — the recipient of an honor, especially an honorary university degree.
- horn-mad — furiously enraged; intensely angry.