8-letter words containing h, e, r, o, i
- 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.
- heroines — Plural form of heroine.
- herolike — Resembling or characteristic of a hero; heroic.
- heroship — The character or personality of a hero.
- hiberno- — denoting Irish or Ireland
- hire out — to engage the services of (a person or persons) for wages or other payment: to hire a clerk.
- historie — Archaic spelling of history.
- hitherto — up to this time; until now: a fact hitherto unknown.
- 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.
- hyperion — Classical Mythology. a Titan, the father of Helios, Selene, and Eos.
- inholder — An indweller, or anything indwelling; inhabitant; occupant.
- inthrone — enthrone.
- iserlohn — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia,W Germany.
- isochore — Physics.. Also, isochor. Also called isometric, isometric line. for a given substance, a curve graphing temperature against pressure, when the volume of the substance is held constant.
- isothere — a line on a weather map or chart connecting points that have the same mean summer temperature.
- isotherm — Meteorology. a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having equal temperature.
- melchior — one of the three Magi.
- morphine — a white, bitter, crystalline alkaloid, C 1 7 H 1 9 NO 3 ⋅H 2 O, the most important narcotic and addictive principle of opium, obtained by extraction and crystallization and used chiefly in medicine as a pain reliever and sedative.
- mouthier — Comparative form of mouthy.
- neighbor — a person who lives near another.
- nephroid — kidney-shaped
- nichrome — An alloy of nickel with chromium (10 to 20 percent) and sometimes iron (up to 25 percent), used chiefly in high-temperature applications such as electrical heating elements.
- nosherei — food for snacking or noshing.
- ochidore — a crab, variously the shore crab (Carcinus Maenas), spider crab (esp of the family Maioidea), or swimming crab (esp of the family Portunidae)
- orchesis — the art of dance
- orchises — Plural form of orchis.
- ornithes — birds considered collectively
- othering — (chiefly philosophy) The process of perceiving or portraying someone or something as fundamentally different or alien.
- otherize — other (def 13).
- overfish — to fish (an area) excessively; to exhaust the supply of usable fish in (certain waters): Scientists are concerned that fishing boats may overfish our coastal waters.
- overhair — the outer coat of an animal