8-letter words containing h, i, l, a, r
- harelips — Plural form of harelip.
- harmalin — chemical derived from harmala
- harold i — ("Harefoot") died 1040, king of England 1035–40 (son of Canute).
- hartline — Haldan Keffer [hawl-duh n kef-er] /ˈhɔl dən ˈkɛf ər/ (Show IPA), 1903–83, U.S. physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1967.
- hauliers — Plural form of haulier.
- havildar — A military rank of the British Indian Army and of the modern armies of India and Pakistan, equivalent to sergeant.
- headrail — a railing on a sailing vessel, extending forward from abaft the bow to the back of the figurehead.
- heartily — in a hearty manner; cordially: He was greeted heartily.
- heraclid — a person claiming descent from Hercules, especially one of the Dorian aristocracy of Sparta.
- heraklit — (language) A distributed object-oriented language.
- heraldic — of, relating to, or characteristic of heralds or heraldry: heraldic form; heraldic images; heraldic history; a heraldic device.
- hibernal — of or relating to winter; wintry.
- hilarity — cheerfulness; merriment; mirthfulness.
- hilarius — Saint, died a.d. 468, pope 461–468.
- hilliard — Nicholas, 1547–1619, English goldsmith and miniaturist painter.
- hireable — able to be hired; fit for hiring.
- holiatry — holism (def 2).
- horntail — any of various wasplike insects of the family Siricidae, the females of which have a hornlike ovipositor.
- hrdlicka — Aleš [ah-lesh] /ˈɑ lɛʃ/ (Show IPA), 1869–1943, U.S. anthropologist, born in Austria-Hungary.
- hydrilla — a submerged aquatic plant, Hydrilla verticillata, native to the Old World, that has become a pest weed in U.S. lakes and waterways.
- inhalers — Plural form of inhaler.
- inthrall — Archaic form of enthrall.
- kalahari — a desert region in SW Africa, largely in Botswana. 100,000 sq. mi. (259,000 sq. km).
- kohlrabi — a cultivated cabbage, Brassica oleracea gongylodes, whose stem above ground swells into an edible, bulblike formation.
- litharge — a yellowish or reddish, odorless, heavy, earthy, water-insoluble, poisonous solid, PbO, used chiefly in the manufacture of storage batteries, pottery, lead glass, paints, enamels, and inks.
- lithuria — the presence of an excessive amount of uric acid in the urine.
- longhair — Sometimes Disparaging. an intellectual.
- lothario — (sometimes lowercase) a man who obsessively seduces and deceives women.
- marichal — Juan, born 1937, U.S. baseball pitcher, born in the Dominican Republic.
- narghile — a Middle Eastern tobacco pipe in which the smoke is drawn through water before reaching the lips; hookah.
- nargileh — Alternative form of narghile.
- oligarch — one of the rulers in an oligarchy.
- orichalc — a yellow alloy derived from gold or copper
- parhelic — of or like a parhelion or parhelia
- pilchard — a small, southern European, marine fish, Sardina pilchardus, related to the herring but smaller and rounder.
- rachilla — a small or secondary rachis, as the axis of a spikelet in a grass inflorescence.
- railhead — the farthest point to which the rails of a railroad have been laid.
- rayleigh — John William Strutt [struht] /strʌt/ (Show IPA), 3rd Baron, 1842–1919, English physicist: Nobel prize 1904.
- rhopalic — (of poetry) in which each successive word has one more syllable than the word before
- richland — a city in SE Washington, on the Columbia River: residential and administrative quarters for the Hanford Works. Compare Hanford (def 2).
- ringhals — a highly venomous snake, Hemachatus haemachatus, of southern Africa, related to the cobras, having one to three light-colored bands across its throat and characterized by its ability to accurately spit its venom up to 7 feet (2.1 meter) away.
- rinkhals — ringhals.
- shiralee — swag2 (def 2).
- shrieval — of, belonging to, or relating to a sheriff.
- thirlage — an obligation imposed upon tenants of certain lands requiring them to have their grain ground at a specified mill
- ultrahip — extremely trendy or fashionable
- whirlbat — a weapon used in medieval times
- wrathily — in a wrathful or angry manner