8-letter words containing h, g, e
- hostages — Plural form of hostage.
- hovering — Present participle of hover.
- hox gene — any of a class of genes that determines the basic structure and orientation of an organism.
- huang he — a river flowing from W China into the Gulf of Bohai. 2800 miles (4510 km) long.
- hugeness — extraordinarily large in bulk, quantity, or extent: a huge ship; a huge portion of ice cream.
- huggable — evoking a desire to hug close; inviting a close embrace; cuddly: a huggable little baby.
- huguenot — a member of the Reformed or Calvinistic communion of France in the 16th and 17th centuries; a French Protestant.
- hungered — Simple past tense and past participle of hunger.
- hungerly — marked by a hungry look.
- hungover — hung (def 3).
- hungrier — having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger.
- hyalogen — any of several insoluble substances found in many animal structures such as cartilage which yield sugars on hydrolysis structures
- 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.
- hygenist — Alternative spelling of hygienist.
- hygienes — Also, hygienics. the science that deals with the preservation of health.
- hygienic — conducive to good health; healthful; sanitary.
- hypergol — any hypergolic agent.
- hypogeal — underground; subterranean.
- hypogean — Existing or growing underground.
- hypogene — formed beneath the earth's surface, as granite (opposed to epigene).
- hypogeum — Ancient Architecture. the underground part of a building, as a vault.
- ingather — to gather or bring in, as a harvest.
- inhering — to exist permanently and inseparably in, as a quality, attribute, or element; belong intrinsically; be inherent: the advantages that inhere in a democratic system.
- inveighs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inveigh.
- jagghery — Alternative spelling of jaggery.
- jedburgh — a border town in the Borders region, in SE Scotland: ruins of an abbey.
- jehangir — 1569–1627, 4th Mogul emperor in India 1605–27 (son of Akbar).
- keighley — a town in N England, in Bradford unitary authority, West Yorkshire, on the River Aire: textile industry. Pop: 49 453 (2001)
- kerching — (onomatopoeia, informal, humorous) Said to indicate that someone is obtaining money, especially a comparatively large amount.
- ketching — Present participle of ketch.
- knighted — a mounted soldier serving under a feudal superior in the Middle Ages.
- la hague — Cape, a cape in NW France, in the English Channel near Cherbourg: the NW extremity of the Cotentin Peninsula.
- la hogue — La [la] /la/ (Show IPA), La Hogue.
- laughers — Plural form of laugher.
- laugheth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'laugh'.
- laughter — the action or sound of laughing.
- leaching — to dissolve out soluble constituents from (ashes, soil, etc.) by percolation.
- leeching — any bloodsucking or carnivorous aquatic or terrestrial worm of the class Hirudinea, certain freshwater species of which were formerly much used in medicine for bloodletting.
- leghorns — Plural form of leghorn.
- leighton — Frederick (Baron Leighton of Stretton) 1830–96, English painter and sculptor.
- lengthen — to make longer; make greater in length.
- lengthly — Misspelled form of lengthy.
- lesghian — Lezghian.
- letching — a lecherous desire or craving.
- lethargy — the quality or state of being drowsy and dull, listless and unenergetic, or indifferent and lazy; apathetic or sluggish inactivity.
- lezghian — a member of a people living mainly in the Dagestan Autonomous Republic in the Russian Federation.
- lichgate — Alternative spelling of lych-gate.
- lightens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lighten.
- lighters — Plural form of lighter.