8-letter words containing h, e, r, i
- hibernal — of or relating to winter; wintry.
- hibernia — Ireland.
- hiberno- — denoting Irish or Ireland
- hierarch — a person who rules or has authority in sacred matters; high priest.
- hieratic — Also, hieratical. of or relating to priests or the priesthood; sacerdotal; priestly.
- hierurgy — a holy act or rite of worship.
- high-res — high-resolution.
- highbred — of superior breed.
- highrise — (of a building) having a comparatively large number of stories and equipped with elevators: a high-rise apartment house.
- hijacker — a person who hijacks.
- 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.
- hipsters — hipsters, Chiefly British. hiphuggers (def 2).
- hire car — a car that you rent for a specified, usually short, period
- hire out — to engage the services of (a person or persons) for wages or other payment: to hire a clerk.
- hireable — able to be hired; fit for hiring.
- hireling — a person who works only for pay, especially in a menial or boring job, with little or no concern for the value of the work.
- hirrient — a trilled sound in speech or song
- his/hers — his or hers
- historie — Archaic spelling of history.
- hit rate — (architecture) The fraction of all memory reads which are satisfied from the cache.
- hitherto — up to this time; until now: a fact hitherto unknown.
- hiveward — (of a bee's movement) towards the hive
- hizzoner — a city mayor or a judge
- hoariest — Superlative form of hoary.
- holliger — Heinz (haints). born 1939, Swiss oboist and composer
- homebird — a person who is reluctant to leave their hometown or their childhood home, or who returns after a period of living away
- homegirl — a girl or woman from the same locality as oneself.
- homelier — Comparative form of homely.
- homering — Present participle of homer.
- hormesis — Stimulation by the use of a low concentration of a toxin.
- hormetic — of or relating to hormesis
- hornlike — Projecting like a horn.
- hornpipe — an English folk clarinet having one ox horn concealing the reed and another forming the bell.
- horrible — causing or tending to cause horror; shockingly dreadful: a horrible sight.
- hot-wire — Slang. to start the engine of (a motor vehicle) by short-circuiting the ignition.
- hotelier — a manager or owner of a hotel or inn.
- hotliner — a person who speaks to callers on a telephone hot line.
- hotwired — Simple past tense and past participle of hotwire.
- hourlies — Plural form of hourly.
- hovering — Present participle of hover.
- howitzer — a cannon having a comparatively short barrel, used especially for firing shells at a high angle of elevation, as for reaching a target behind cover or in a trench.
- 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.
- huissier — an usher
- humiture — a measure of the discomfort most people feel because of the combined effects of atmospheric temperature and humidity; variously defined as Fahrenheit temperature plus some function of vapor pressure.
- hungrier — having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger.
- hydremia — the state of having an excess of water in the blood.
- hydrides — Plural form of hydride.
- hyperion — Classical Mythology. a Titan, the father of Helios, Selene, and Eos.
- hysteria — an uncontrollable outburst of emotion or fear, often characterized by irrationality, laughter, weeping, etc.