8-letter words containing h, e, d, r, o
- 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.
- hardcore — unswervingly committed; uncompromising; dedicated: a hard-core segregationist.
- hardnose — a person who is tough and uncompromising
- harewood — the greenish-gray wood of the sycamore maple, used for making furniture.
- 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.
- head for — go towards, go to
- headroom — Nautical. the clear space between two decks.
- headrope — the part of a bolt-rope attached to the head of a sail
- headword — a word, phrase, or the like, appearing as the heading of a chapter, dictionary or encyclopedia entry, etc.
- headwork — mental labor; thought.
- hectored — Simple past form of hector.
- hedgerow — a row of bushes or trees forming a hedge.
- heliodor — a clear yellow variety of beryl used as a gemstone.
- herdbook — A book containing the list and pedigrees of one or more herds of cattle.
- hereford — one of an English breed of red beef cattle having a white face and white body markings.
- herodian — of or relating to Herod the Great, his family, or its partisans.
- 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.
- 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.
- humoured — Simple past tense and past participle of humour.
- 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.
- inholder — An indweller, or anything indwelling; inhabitant; occupant.
- koshered — Simple past tense and past participle of kosher.
- merodach — Marduk.
- moorhead — a city in W Minnesota.
- mothered — Simple past tense and past participle of mother.
- nephroid — kidney-shaped
- ochidore — a crab, variously the shore crab (Carcinus Maenas), spider crab (esp of the family Maioidea), or swimming crab (esp of the family Portunidae)
- orphaned — a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent.
- overhand — thrown or performed with the hand raised over the shoulder; overarm: overhand stroke.
- overhard — too hard
- overhead — over one's head; aloft; up in the air or sky, especially near the zenith: There was a cloud overhead.
- overhold — to value too highly
- potsherd — a broken pottery fragment, especially one of archaeological value.