8-letter words containing h, e, r, d, i
- headrail — a railing on a sailing vessel, extending forward from abaft the bow to the back of the figurehead.
- headring — an African head decoration and symbol of maturity
- 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).
- heliodor — a clear yellow variety of beryl used as a gemstone.
- hendrick — a male given name, form of Henry.
- heraclid — a person claiming descent from Hercules, especially one of the Dorian aristocracy of Sparta.
- heraldic — of, relating to, or characteristic of heralds or heraldry: heraldic form; heraldic images; heraldic history; a heraldic device.
- herdlike — Resembling a herd or some aspect of one, especially a propensity to follow blindly after a leader.
- herdwick — a hardy breed of coarse-woolled sheep from NW England
- heredity — the transmission of genetic characters from parents to offspring: it is dependent upon the segregation and recombination of genes during meiosis and fertilization and results in the genesis of a new individual similar to others of its kind but exhibiting certain variations resulting from the particular mix of genes and their interactions with the environment.
- 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.
- hesperid — any small butterfly of the family Hesperiidae; a skipper
- highbred — of superior breed.
- hindered — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
- hinderer — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
- hiveward — (of a bee's movement) towards the hive
- homebird — a person who is reluctant to leave their hometown or their childhood home, or who returns after a period of living away
- hotwired — Simple past tense and past participle of hotwire.
- hreidmar — (in the Volsunga Saga) the father of Fafnir, Otter, and Regin. He demanded wergild from the gods for killing Otter, and was killed by Fafnir when he got it.
- hydremia — the state of having an excess of water in the blood.
- hydrides — Plural form of hydride.
- inarched — Simple past tense and past participle of inarch.
- indrench — to submerge, immerse, or drown (someone in something)
- inholder — An indweller, or anything indwelling; inhabitant; occupant.
- merchild — a mythical creature with the upper body of a child and the lower body of a fish
- meredith — George, 1828–1909, English novelist and poet.
- misheard — to hear incorrectly or imperfectly: to mishear a remark.
- mithered — Simple past tense and past participle of mither.
- 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)
- perished — to die or be destroyed through violence, privation, etc.: to perish in an earthquake.
- pierhead — the outermost end of a pier or wharf.
- piershed — a building located on or near a pier (piershed) or wharf (wharf shed) used for short-term storage of cargo in transit.
- railhead — the farthest point to which the rails of a railroad have been laid.
- red hind — a grouper, Epinephelus guttatus, of Florida, the West Indies, etc., valued as a food fish.
- redditch — a town in W central England, in N Worcestershire: designated a new town in the mid-1960s; metal-working industries. Pop: 74 803 (2001)
- redlight — a red lamp, used as a traffic signal to mean “stop.”.
- redshift — a shift toward longer wavelengths of the spectral lines emitted by a celestial object that is caused by the object moving away from the earth.
- redshirt — a high-school or college athlete kept out of varsity competition for one year to develop skills and extend eligibility. a child held back from starting kindergarten for one year, the practice of which is believed by some parents to give the child academic, athletic, and social advantages.
- reinhold — a male given name.
- relished — liking or enjoyment of the taste of something.
- rhodesia — (as Southern Rhodesia, ) a former British colony in S Africa: declared independence 1965; name changed to Zimbabwe, 1979.
- richweed — clearweed.
- semihard — partly hard; not completely hard
- sephardi — a Jew of Spanish, Portuguese, or North African descent
- sheridan — Philip Henry, 1831–88, Union general in the Civil War.
- shivered — to shake or tremble with cold, fear, excitement, etc.
- shrewdie — a shrewd person
- shrilled — high-pitched and piercing in sound quality: a shrill cry.