8-letter words containing h, i, e, d
- drisheen — a pudding made of sheep's intestines filled with meal and sheep's blood
- dukeship — the position or status of a duke
- durkheim — Émile [ey-meel] /eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1858–1917, French sociologist and philosopher.
- dweebish — Dweeby.
- echidnae — Plural form of echidna.
- echidnas — Plural form of echidna.
- echinoid — belonging or pertaining to the class Echinoidea, comprising mainly sea urchins and sand dollars.
- echiurid — any of various unsegmented marine worms of the phylum Echiura, comprising the spoonworms.
- edgehill — a ridge in S Warwickshire: site of the indecisive first battle between Charles I and the Parliamentarians (1642) in the Civil War
- eldritch — Weird and sinister or ghostly.
- enriched — Simple past tense and past participle of enrich.
- enshield — to protect
- ethmoids — Plural form of ethmoid.
- ethoxide — any of a class of saltlike compounds with the formula MOC2H5, where M is a metal atom
- famished — extremely hungry: to be famished after a hike; famished, homeless multitudes.
- fiendish — diabolically cruel and wicked.
- finished — ended or completed.
- flighted — the act, manner, or power of flying.
- flinched — to draw back or shrink, as from what is dangerous, difficult, or unpleasant.
- frighted — Simple past tense and past participle of fright.
- gadhelic — Also called Q-Celtic. the subbranch of Celtic in which the Proto-Indo-European kw -sound remained a velar. Irish and Scottish Gaelic belong to Goidelic.
- gedaliah — the governor of Judah after its conquest by Babylon. II Kings 25:22–26.
- ghiordes — a Turkish rug characterized by an uneven pile produced by the Ghiordes knot.
- gilthead — any of several marine fishes having gold markings, as a sparid, Sparus auratus, of the Mediterranean Sea.
- glitched — a defect or malfunction in a machine or plan.
- goderich — Viscount, title of Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon. 1782–1859, British statesman; prime minister (1827–28)
- habitude — customary condition or character: a healthy mental habitude.
- hacienda — a large landed estate, especially one used for farming or ranching.
- hadfield — Sir Robert Abbott, 1858–1940, English metallurgist and industrialist.
- hagrider — a person or thing that causes distressing anxiety or apprehension
- hagrides — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hagride.
- halidome — a holy place, as a church or sanctuary.
- handiest — superlative form of handy: most handy.
- handlike — Resembling a hand.
- hardiest — capable of enduring fatigue, hardship, exposure, etc.; sturdy; strong: hardy explorers of northern Canada.
- hardinge — Henry, 1st Viscount Hardinge of Lahore. 1785–1856, British politician, soldier, and colonial administrator; governor general of India (1844–48)
- hardline — an uncompromising or unyielding stand, especially in politics.
- hardwire — Alternative spelling of hard-wire.
- hasidean — Assidean.
- hatfield — a town in central Hertfordshire, in SE England: incorporated into (Welwyn Hatfield) 1974.
- hayfield — a field where grass, alfalfa, etc., are grown for making into hay.
- hayrides — Plural form of hayride.
- head dip — a maneuver in which a surfer, by squatting and leaning forward on the surfboard, partially dips his or her head into the wall of a wave.
- headfish — ocean sunfish.
- headings — Plural form of heading.
- headlice — Alternative form of head lice.
- headlike — Having the form of a head or a skull.
- headline — a heading in a newspaper for any written material, sometimes for an illustration, to indicate subject matter, set in larger type than that of the copy and containing one or more words and lines and often several banks.
- headling — (obsolete) An equal; a fellow; mate.
- headrail — a railing on a sailing vessel, extending forward from abaft the bow to the back of the figurehead.