8-letter words containing h, r, d, i, a
- hardinge — Henry, 1st Viscount Hardinge of Lahore. 1785–1856, British politician, soldier, and colonial administrator; governor general of India (1844–48)
- hardline — an uncompromising or unyielding stand, especially in politics.
- hardship — a condition that is difficult to endure; suffering; deprivation; oppression: a life of hardship.
- hardtail — blue runner.
- hardwick — Elizabeth, 1916–2007, U.S. novelist and critic.
- hardwire — Alternative spelling of hard-wire.
- hari rud — a river in NW Afghanistan, NE Iran, and S Turkmenistan, flowing W and then N to the Kara Kum desert. 700 miles (1126 km) long.
- haridwar — a city in Uttar Pradesh, N India, on the Ganges River: a holy city to Hindus.
- harold i — ("Harefoot") died 1040, king of England 1035–40 (son of Canute).
- harridan — a scolding, vicious woman; hag; shrew.
- havildar — A military rank of the British Indian Army and of the modern armies of India and Pakistan, equivalent to sergeant.
- hayrides — Plural form of hayride.
- headrail — a railing on a sailing vessel, extending forward from abaft the bow to the back of the figurehead.
- headring — an African head decoration and symbol of maturity
- heraclid — a person claiming descent from Hercules, especially one of the Dorian aristocracy of Sparta.
- heraldic — of, relating to, or characteristic of heralds or heraldry: heraldic form; heraldic images; heraldic history; a heraldic device.
- herodian — of or relating to Herod the Great, his family, or its partisans.
- herodias — the second wife of Herod Antipas and the mother of Salome: she told Salome to ask Herod for the head of John the Baptist.
- highroad — Chiefly British. a main road; highway.
- hilliard — Nicholas, 1547–1619, English goldsmith and miniaturist painter.
- hindward — backward
- hiveward — (of a bee's movement) towards the hive
- hoarding — a supply or accumulation that is hidden or carefully guarded for preservation, future use, etc.: a vast hoard of silver.
- hrdlicka — Aleš [ah-lesh] /ˈɑ lɛʃ/ (Show IPA), 1869–1943, U.S. anthropologist, born in Austria-Hungary.
- hreidmar — (in the Volsunga Saga) the father of Fafnir, Otter, and Regin. He demanded wergild from the gods for killing Otter, and was killed by Fafnir when he got it.
- hydracid — an acid that does not contain oxygen, as hydrochloric acid, HCl.
- hydremia — the state of having an excess of water in the blood.
- hydrilla — a submerged aquatic plant, Hydrilla verticillata, native to the Old World, that has become a pest weed in U.S. lakes and waterways.
- hyracoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the mammalian order Hyracoidea, which contains the hyraxes
- inarched — Simple past tense and past participle of inarch.
- misheard — to hear incorrectly or imperfectly: to mishear a remark.
- myriadth — constituting a very small part of a thing
- parishad — (in India) an assembly
- pierhead — the outermost end of a pier or wharf.
- pilchard — a small, southern European, marine fish, Sardina pilchardus, related to the herring but smaller and rounder.
- prichard — a city in S Alabama.
- railhead — the farthest point to which the rails of a railroad have been laid.
- rhabdoid — a rod-shaped structure found in the cells of some plants and animals
- rhodanic — of or relating to thiocyanic acid
- rhodesia — (as Southern Rhodesia, ) a former British colony in S Africa: declared independence 1965; name changed to Zimbabwe, 1979.
- richards — a male given name.
- richland — a city in SE Washington, on the Columbia River: residential and administrative quarters for the Hanford Works. Compare Hanford (def 2).
- semihard — partly hard; not completely hard
- sephardi — a Jew of Spanish, Portuguese, or North African descent
- sheridan — Philip Henry, 1831–88, Union general in the Civil War.
- shipyard — a yard or enclosure in which ships are built or repaired.
- thridace — a sedative made from lettuce juice
- tracheid — an elongated, tapering xylem cell having lignified, pitted, intact walls, adapted for conduction and support. Compare vessel (def 5).
- wardship — guardianship; custody.
- whinyard — a sword