8-letter words containing h, i, g, e
- prefight — of the period before a boxing match
- preweigh — to weigh beforehand
- rayleigh — John William Strutt [struht] /strʌt/ (Show IPA), 3rd Baron, 1842–1919, English physicist: Nobel prize 1904.
- redlight — a red lamp, used as a traffic signal to mean “stop.”.
- regolith — mantle rock.
- respighi — Ottorino [awt-taw-ree-naw] /ˌɔt tɔˈri nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1879–1936, Italian composer.
- retching — to make efforts to vomit.
- rheingau — a small wine-growing region in Hesse, in central Germany, on the Rhine.
- 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.
- teaching — Informal. teacher.
- tealight — small candle floated in water
- teething — eruption of the deciduous teeth, especially the phenomena associated with their eruption.
- teiglach — a confection consisting of small balls of dough boiled in a syrup of honey, sugar, and spices.
- the grid — the national network of transmission lines, pipes, etc, by which electricity, gas, or water is distributed
- the ring — the sport of boxing
- therblig — (in time and motion study) any of the basic elements involved in completing a given manual operation or task that can be subjected to analysis.
- 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)
- theurgic — a system of beneficent magic practiced by the Egyptian Platonists and others.
- thieving — to take by theft; steal.
- thingies — Facetious. any small item whose name is unknown or forgotten.
- thirlage — an obligation imposed upon tenants of certain lands requiring them to have their grain ground at a specified mill
- tigerish — tigerlike, as in strength, fierceness, courage, or coloration.
- toughies — a tough person, especially one who is belligerent.
- unhinged — having no hinge or hinges, or with the hinges removed: an unhinged gate.
- unweight — Skiing. to lessen downward force and friction between the skis and the snow by a quick upward or downward shifting of the body or by using bumps in the terrain.
- weigh in — the act or an instance of weighing in: After the weigh-in the fighters posed for photographers.