8-letter words containing h, i, r, n, g
- herrings — Plural form of herring.
- highborn — of high rank by birth.
- hiragana — the cursive and more widely used of the two Japanese syllabaries.
- hireling — a person who works only for pay, especially in a menial or boring job, with little or no concern for the value of the work.
- hoarding — a supply or accumulation that is hidden or carefully guarded for preservation, future use, etc.: a vast hoard of silver.
- homering — Present participle of homer.
- honoring — honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
- hovering — Present participle of hover.
- humoring — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- 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.
- ingather — to gather or bring in, as a harvest.
- ingrowth — growth inward.
- inhering — to exist permanently and inseparably in, as a quality, attribute, or element; belong intrinsically; be inherent: the advantages that inhere in a democratic system.
- jahangir — 1569–1627, 4th Mogul emperor in India 1605–27 (son of Akbar).
- jehangir — 1569–1627, 4th Mogul emperor in India 1605–27 (son of Akbar).
- kerching — (onomatopoeia, informal, humorous) Said to indicate that someone is obtaining money, especially a comparatively large amount.
- longhair — Sometimes Disparaging. an intellectual.
- lurching — Archaic. the act of lurking or state of watchfulness.
- marching — to touch at the border; border.
- morphing — Linguistics. a sequence of phonemes constituting a minimal unit of grammar or syntax, and, as such, a representation, member, or contextual variant of a morpheme in a specific environment. Compare allomorph (def 2).
- narghile — a Middle Eastern tobacco pipe in which the smoke is drawn through water before reaching the lips; hookah.
- nargileh — Alternative form of narghile.
- neighbor — a person who lives near another.
- nighters — Plural form of nighter.
- nightjar — a nocturnal European bird, Caprimulgus europaeus, of the family Caprimulgidae, having a short bill and a wide mouth and feeding on insects captured in the air.
- northing — northward movement or deviation.
- nuraghic — relating to the Bronze Age Sardinian civilization that is distinguished by nuraghe
- orangish — resembling or suggesting an orange, as in taste, appearance, or color: decorated with orangy-pink flowers.
- othering — (chiefly philosophy) The process of perceiving or portraying someone or something as fundamentally different or alien.
- parching — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
- 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).
- pharming — the process of producing medically useful products from genetically modified plants and animals.
- phrasing — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- phrygian — of or relating to Phrygia, its people, or their language.
- ranching — an establishment maintained for raising livestock under range conditions.
- retching — to make efforts to vomit.
- rheingau — a small wine-growing region in Hesse, in central Germany, on the Rhine.
- right on — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- right-on — exactly right or to the point.
- righting — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- 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.
- roaching — Nautical. the upward curve at the foot of a square sail. (loosely) a convexity given to any of the edges of a sail; round.
- run high — If people's feelings are running high, they are very angry, concerned, or excited.
- sharking — a person who preys greedily on others, as by cheating or usury.
- sharping — having a thin cutting edge or a fine point; well-adapted for cutting or piercing: a sharp knife.
- 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.