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8-letter words containing h, i, e

  • shireman — a sheriff
  • shirleen — a female given name, form of Shirley.
  • shithead — a stupid, inept, unlikable, or contemptible person.
  • shitless — If someone says that they are scared shitless or bored shitless, they are emphasizing that they are extremely scared or bored.
  • shivaree — a mock serenade with kettles, pans, horns, and other noisemakers given for a newly married couple; charivari.
  • shivered — to shake or tremble with cold, fear, excitement, etc.
  • shlemiel — an awkward and unlucky person for whom things never turn out right.
  • shoebill — a large, African, storklike bird, Balaeniceps rex, having a broad, flattened bill shaped somewhat like a shoe.
  • shove it — to move along by force from behind; push.
  • showtime — the time at which an entertainment is scheduled to begin.
  • shrewdie — a shrewd person
  • shrewish — having the disposition of a shrew.
  • shrieval — of, belonging to, or relating to a sheriff.
  • shrilled — high-pitched and piercing in sound quality: a shrill cry.
  • shriller — high-pitched and piercing in sound quality: a shrill cry.
  • shrimper — a shrimp fisherman.
  • shrinker — a person or thing that shrinks.
  • shunpike — a side road taken instead of a turnpike or expressway to avoid tolls or to travel at a leisurely pace.
  • shuriken — a martial-arts weapon usually in the shape of a star or cross with sharp protruding edges, thrown with a spin towards the target
  • shvernik — Nikolai [nik-uh-lahy;; Russian nyi-kuh-lahy] /ˈnɪk əˌlaɪ;; Russian nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ/ (Show IPA), 1888–1970, Russian government official: president of the Soviet Union 1946–53.
  • sidehead — a heading or subhead run in the margin of a book or magazine.
  • sidehill — a hillside.
  • sidepath — a minor path
  • sideshow — a minor show or exhibition in connection with a principal one, as at a circus.
  • siegbahn — Karl Manne Georg [kahrl mahn-nuh yey-awr-yuh] /kɑrl ˈmɑn nə ˈyeɪ ɔr yə/ (Show IPA), 1886–1978, Swedish physicist: Nobel prize 1924.
  • sighless — without uttering a sigh
  • sighlike — resembling a sigh
  • sightsee — to go about seeing places and things of interest: In Rome, we only had two days to sightsee.
  • sighyper — Special Interest Group on Hypertext and Multimedia of the SGML Users' Group.
  • sinkhole — a hole formed in soluble rock by the action of water, serving to conduct surface water to an underground passage.
  • siphoned — a tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawing a liquid from one container into another on a lower level by placing the shorter leg into the container above and the longer leg into the one below, the liquid being forced up the shorter leg and into the longer one by the pressure of the atmosphere.
  • siphonet — (of aphids) a small siphon on the abdomen by which an aphid emits sticky liquid
  • sixtieth — next after the fifty-ninth; being the ordinal number for 60.
  • skinhead — a baldheaded man.
  • slighted — small in amount, degree, etc.: a slight increase; a slight odor.
  • slithery — to slide down or along a surface, especially unsteadily, from side to side, or with some friction or noise: The box slithered down the chute.
  • smithery — the work, craft, or workshop of a smith.
  • smoothie — a person who has a winningly polished manner: He's such a smoothie he could charm the stripes off a tiger.
  • sneakish — (of a person or action) somewhat or rather sneaky
  • sondheim — Stephen (Joshua) born 1930, U.S. composer and lyricist.
  • sopheric — relating to Jewish scribes
  • sopherim — scribe1 (def 3).
  • sphairee — a game resembling tennis played with wooden bats and a perforated plastic ball, devised by F. A. Beck in 1961
  • sphenoid — being in the shape of a wedge; wedge-shaped.
  • spherics — Also, sferics. (used with a singular verb) a branch of meteorology in which electronic devices are used to forecast the weather and to study atmospheric conditions.
  • spheroid — a solid geometrical figure similar in shape to a sphere, as an ellipsoid.
  • sphinges — a figure of an imaginary creature having the head of a man or an animal and the body of a lion. (usually initial capital letter) the colossal recumbent stone figure of this kind near the pyramids of Giza.
  • spitcher — the end or finish
  • spithead — a roadstead off the S coast of England between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.
  • steepish — somewhat or a little steep
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