8-letter words containing h, i, e
- hillside — a township in NE New Jersey.
- hillsite — a location or site on the side or top of a hill.
- hiltless — without a hilt
- himselfe — Obsolete spelling of himself.
- hinckley — a town in central England, in Leicestershire. Pop: 43 246 (2001)
- 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.
- hindfell — the mountain on whose fiery top Brynhild slept until awakened by Sigurd.
- hindhead — the back of the head
- hindlegs — Plural form of hindleg.
- hinduize — to convert to or bring under the influence of Hinduism.
- hinge on — a jointed device or flexible piece on which a door, gate, shutter, lid, or other attached part turns, swings, or moves.
- hinsdale — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- hip size — a measurement around the hips at the level of the buttocks used in clothing and assessing general health
- hipbones — Plural form of hipbone.
- hippiest — having big hips.
- 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
- histogen — a region in a plant in which tissues differentiate.
- histones — Plural form of histone.
- 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.
- hittable — (of a ball or pitch) capable of being hit
- hive off — a shelter constructed for housing a colony of honeybees; beehive.
- hiveless — Without a hive.
- hivemind — the property of apparent sentience in a colony of social insects acting as a single organism, each insect performing a specific role for the good of the group.
- hiveward — (of a bee's movement) towards the hive
- hiwassee — a river in NE Georgia, SW North Carolina, and SE Tennessee, flowing N to the Tennessee River. 150 miles (241 km) long.
- hizzoner — a city mayor or a judge
- hl hinge — a surface-mounted hinge that when applied resembles H and L combined.
- hoariest — Superlative form of hoary.
- hocktide — a former festival celebrated on the second Monday and Tuesday after Easter
- hoe into — to eat (food) heartily
- hokiness — The state or condition of being hoky.
- holiness — the quality or state of being holy; sanctity.
- holliger — Heinz (haints). born 1939, Swiss oboist and composer
- holstein — Also called Holstein-Friesian [hohl-stahyn-free-zhuh n, -steen-] /ˈhoʊl staɪnˈfri ʒən, -stin-/ (Show IPA). one of a breed of black-and-white dairy cattle, raised originally in North Holland and Friesland, that yields large quantities of milk having a low content of butterfat.
- holytide — a time of religious observances.
- 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.
- homelike — like or suggestive of home; familiar; warmly comfortable.
- homelily — in a homely manner
- homeosis — The replacement of part of one segment of an insect or other segmented animal by a structure characteristic of a different segment, especially through mutation.