8-letter words containing h, i, g, e, s
- hygenist — Alternative spelling of hygienist.
- hygienes — Also, hygienics. the science that deals with the preservation of health.
- inveighs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inveigh.
- lesghian — Lezghian.
- lightens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lighten.
- lighters — Plural form of lighter.
- lightest — a light product, as a beer or cigarette.
- mageship — the role or office of a mage
- mightest — (archaic) second-person singular simple past of may.
- mighties — Plural form of mighty.
- nighness — The quality or state of being nigh, or near.
- nighters — Plural form of nighter.
- nighties — Plural form of nightie.
- pershing — a 38-foot (12 meters) U.S. Army surface-to-surface nuclear missile with a single warhead and range of more than 1000 miles (1609 km).
- pishogue — sorcery; witchcraft; black magic.
- respighi — Ottorino [awt-taw-ree-naw] /ˌɔt tɔˈri nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1879–1936, Italian composer.
- rightest — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- scheming — given to making plans, especially sly and underhand ones; crafty.
- seething — to surge or foam as if boiling.
- semihigh — moderately or fairly high
- sennight — a week.
- shagpile — (of a carpet or rug) having long, rough fibres
- sheading — any of the six subdivisions of the Isle of Man
- shealing — a pasture or grazing ground.
- shearing — Usually, shears. (sometimes used with a singular verb) scissors of large size (usually used with pair of). any of various other cutting implements or machines having two blades that resemble or suggest those of scissors.
- shedding — to pour forth (water or other liquid), as a fountain.
- sheering — to deviate from a course, as a ship; swerve.
- sheeting — Nautical. a rope or chain for extending the clews of a square sail along a yard. a rope for trimming a fore-and-aft sail. a rope or chain for extending the lee clew of a course.
- shelling — act of removing shell
- shelving — material for shelves.
- shieling — a pasture or grazing ground.
- shigella — any of several rod-shaped aerobic bacteria of the genus Shigella, certain species of which are pathogenic for humans and other warm-blooded animals.
- shingled — a thin piece of wood, slate, metal, asbestos, or the like, usually oblong, laid in overlapping rows to cover the roofs and walls of buildings.
- shingles — small, waterworn stones or pebbles such as lie in loose sheets or beds on a beach.
- 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.
- slighted — small in amount, degree, etc.: a slight increase; a slight odor.
- 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.
- thesiger — Wilfred (Patrick). 1910–2003, British writer, who explored the Empty Quarter of Arabia (1945–50) and lived with the Iraqi marsh Arabs (1950–58). His books include Arabian Sands (1958), The Marsh Arabs (1964), and My Kenya Days (1994)
- thingies — Facetious. any small item whose name is unknown or forgotten.
- tigerish — tigerlike, as in strength, fierceness, courage, or coloration.
- toughies — a tough person, especially one who is belligerent.
- weighers — Plural form of weigher.
- welshing — Present participle of welsh.
- whingers — Plural form of whinger.