8-letter words containing h, i, n
- hot link — a link between two files, as between a spreadsheet and a document, such that a change in one effects a change in the other.
- hotliner — a person who speaks to callers on a telephone hot line.
- hotlines — Plural form of hotline.
- houghing — Scot. hock1 (defs 1, 2).
- hounding — one of any of several breeds of dogs trained to pursue game either by sight or by scent, especially one with a long face and large drooping ears.
- housings — Plural form of housing.
- housling — the growing of the climbing stem of the hop into a dense mass at the top of the poles which support it
- hovering — Present participle of hover.
- howdunit — A type of detective story in which the focus is not on who committed the crime, but how they have done so.
- howlings — Plural form of howling.
- hsinking — Older Spelling. former name of Changchun.
- huang ti — the legendary first emperor of China.
- huddling — Present participle of huddle.
- huggings — Plural form of hugging.
- huizinga — Johan, 1872–1945, Dutch historian.
- humanics — the study of the nature or affairs of humankind.
- humanise — to make humane, kind, or gentle.
- humanism — any system or mode of thought or action in which human interests, values, and dignity predominate.
- humanist — a person having a strong interest in or concern for human welfare, values, and dignity.
- humanity — all human beings collectively; the human race; humankind.
- humanize — to make humane, kind, or gentle.
- humanoid — having human characteristics or form; resembling human beings.
- humbling — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- humoring — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- humphing — Present participle of humph.
- hunching — to thrust out or up in a hump; arch: to hunch one's back.
- hungrier — having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger.
- hungrily — having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger.
- hurdling — (athletics) A track and field running event where the runners have to jump over a number of hurdles.
- hurrying — to move, proceed, or act with haste (often followed by up): Hurry, or we'll be late. Hurry up, it's starting to rain.
- hurtling — to rush violently; move with great speed: The car hurtled down the highway.
- hustings — (before 1872) the temporary platform on which candidates for the British Parliament stood when nominated and from which they addressed the electors.
- hustling — to proceed or work rapidly or energetically: to hustle about putting a house in order.
- hutching — Present participle of hutch.
- hutchins — Robert Maynard, 1899–1977, U.S. educator and college president.
- huxleian — of, relating to, or characteristic or suggestive of Aldous Huxley or his writings.
- huzzaing — Present participle of huzza.
- hyacinth — a female given name.
- hydronic — of or relating to a heating system for a building in which the medium for carrying heat throughout the structure is circulating water, especially when the circulation is aided by a pump.
- hygenist — Alternative spelling of hygienist.
- hygienes — Also, hygienics. the science that deals with the preservation of health.
- hygienic — conducive to good health; healthful; sanitary.
- hymenial — relating to the layer of certain fungi which bears spores, composed of asci or basidia
- hymenium — the sporogenous layer in a fungus, composed of asci or basidia often interspersed with various sterile structures, as paraphyses.
- hymnists — Plural form of hymnist.
- hymnlike — Resembling a hymn in form or sound.
- hyoidean — Also, hyoidal, hyoidean. noting or pertaining to a U -shaped bone at the root of the tongue in humans, or a corresponding bone or collection of bones in animals.
- hyoscine — scopolamine.
- hyperion — Classical Mythology. a Titan, the father of Helios, Selene, and Eos.
- hyphenic — relating to a hyphen