8-letter words containing h, a, r, d, e
- fathered — a male parent.
- forehand — (in tennis, squash, etc.) of, relating to, or noting a stroke made from the same side of the body as that of the hand holding the racket, paddle, etc. Compare backhand (def 5).
- forehead — the part of the face above the eyebrows; brow.
- forkhead — the head of an arrow
- freehand — drawn or executed by hand without guiding instruments, measurements, or other aids: a freehand map.
- gathered — Simple past tense and past participle of gather.
- gearhead — A mechanical device used to increase the torque of gears.
- gheraoed — Simple past tense and past participle of gherao.
- goatherd — a person who tends goats.
- greyhead — a person with grey hair
- hachured — one of a series of short parallel lines drawn on a map to indicate topographic relief.
- hagrider — a person or thing that causes distressing anxiety or apprehension
- hagrides — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hagride.
- halberds — Plural form of halberd.
- haltered — Simple past tense and past participle of halter.
- hammered — shaped, formed, or ornamented by a metalworker's hammer: a hammered bowl of brass; hammered gold.
- hampered — Hinder or impede the movement or progress of.
- handlers — Plural form of handler.
- handover — the act of relinquishing property, authority, etc.: a handover of occupied territory.
- hangared — a shed or shelter.
- hankered — to have a restless or incessant longing (often followed by after, for, or an infinitive).
- harassed — stressed, tormented
- harbored — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- hard-set — firmly or rigidly set; fixed: a hard-set smile.
- hardbake — almond toffee
- hardcase — a container that has a rigid structure
- hardcore — unswervingly committed; uncompromising; dedicated: a hard-core segregationist.
- hardened — made or become hard or harder.
- hardener — a person or thing that hardens.
- 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.