8-letter words containing h, e, r, i
- christen — When a baby is christened, he or she is given a name during the Christian ceremony of baptism. Compare baptize.
- christer — a Christian, esp. one actively engaged in proselytizing or evangelizing
- christie — Dame Agatha (Mary Clarissa). 1890–1976, British author of detective stories, many featuring Hercule Poirot, and several plays, including The Mousetrap (1952)
- chromide — any fish of the family Cichlidae
- chromite — a brownish-black mineral consisting of a ferrous chromic oxide in cubic crystalline form, occurring principally in basic igneous rocks: the only commercial source of chromium and its compounds. Formula: FeCr2O4
- chromize — to plate with chromium
- chubbier — Comparative form of chubby.
- cinchers — Plural form of cincher.
- ciphered — Put (a message) into secret writing; encode.
- cipherer — a person who ciphers
- clashier — Comparative form of clashy.
- clerihew — a form of comic or satiric verse, consisting of two couplets of metrically irregular lines, containing the name of a well-known person
- clerkish — Like or resembling a clerk.
- clincher — A clincher is a fact or argument that finally proves something, settles a dispute, or helps someone achieve a victory.
- clothier — a person who makes, sells, or deals in clothes or cloth
- cohering — Present participle of cohere.
- coinhere — to inhere together
- corniche — a coastal road, esp one built into the face of a cliff
- decipher — to determine the meaning of (something obscure or illegible)
- desireth — Archaic third-person singular form of desire.
- dhurries — Plural form of dhurrie.
- diarrhea — If someone has diarrhea, a lot of liquid feces comes out of their body because they are ill.
- die hard — If you say that habits or attitudes die hard, you mean that they take a very long time to disappear or change, so that it may not be possible to get rid of them completely.
- die-hard — a person who vigorously maintains or defends a seemingly hopeless position, outdated attitude, lost cause, or the like.
- diehards — Plural form of diehard.
- dietrich — Marlene [mahr-ley-nuh] /mɑrˈleɪ nə/ (Show IPA), 1904–92, U.S. actress and singer, born in Germany.
- dihedral — having or formed by two planes.
- dihedron — a figure formed by two intersecting planes.
- disheart — Obsolete form of dishearten.
- disherit — to disinherit.
- dishorse — (archaic, intransitive) To dismount from a horse.
- dishware — dishes used for food; tableware.
- dithered — Simple past tense and past participle of dither.
- ditherer — a trembling; vibration.
- dreggish — resembling or containing dregs
- drinketh — Archaic third-person singular form of drink.
- drisheen — a pudding made of sheep's intestines filled with meal and sheep's blood
- durkheim — Émile [ey-meel] /eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1858–1917, French sociologist and philosopher.
- earlship — earldom (def 1).
- earthier — Comparative form of earthy.
- earthily — In an earthy manner.
- earthing — (often initial capital letter) the planet third in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,755 km) and a polar diameter of 7900 miles (12,714 km), a mean distance from the sun of 92.9 million miles (149.6 million km), and a period of revolution of 365.26 days, and having one satellite.
- echiuran — spoonworm
- echiurid — any of various unsegmented marine worms of the phylum Echiura, comprising the spoonworms.
- eeyorish — Alternative capitalization of Eeyorish.
- eldritch — Weird and sinister or ghostly.
- emperish — to damage or harm
- enchoric — Alternative form of enchorial.
- encipher — Convert (a message or piece of text) into a coded form ; encrypt.
- enherite — Archaic form of inherit.