8-letter words containing h, r, y
- fortyish — approaching or around the age of 40 years.
- fourthly — in the fourth place; fourth.
- frothery — an insubstantial thing; a triviality
- frothily — In a frothy way.
- fujayrah — Al-, one of the United Arab Emirates, on the Gulf of Oman.
- garishly — crudely or tastelessly colorful, showy, or elaborate, as clothes or decoration.
- graithly — in a graith manner
- gray hat — a hacker who violates the security of a system without true malicious intent but often without the prior knowledge or consent of the owner or developer, and who later reports system vulnerabilities to the authorities, sometimes for personal profit.
- grayfish — a name used in marketing for any of several American sharks, especially the dogfishes of the genus Squalus.
- greyhead — a person with grey hair
- gryphons — Plural form of gryphon.
- gynarchy — government by women.
- hagberry — Prunus padus, a species of cherry native to northern Europe and northern Asia, the bird cherry.
- halyards — Plural form of halyard.
- hanratty — James. 1936–62, Englishman executed, despite conflicting evidence, for a murder on the A6 road. Subsequent public concern played a major part in the abolition of capital punishment in Britain. New DNA evidence led to an appeal by Hanratty's supporters being dismissed in 2002
- hardbody — a person who is muscular and physically fit.
- hardcopy — copy, as computer output printed on paper, that can be read without using a special device (opposed to soft copy).
- haringey — a borough of Greater London, England.
- harlotry — prostitution.
- harmosty — the office of a harmost
- harrying — to harass, annoy, or prove a nuisance to by or as if by repeated attacks; worry: He was harried by constant doubts.
- hatchery — a place for hatching eggs of hens, fish, etc., especially a large, commercial or government site where the young are hatched, cared for, and sold or distributed.
- hay rake — a farm implement used to rake hay from a swath into a windrow.
- hayfever — Alternative spelling of hay fever.
- hayforks — Plural form of hayfork.
- haymaker — a person or machine that cuts hay and spreads it to dry.
- hayracks — Plural form of hayrack.
- hayrides — Plural form of hayride.
- hayworth — Rita (Margarita Carmen Cansino) 1918–87, U.S. dancer and actress.
- hazardry — the taking of risks
- hearsays — unverified, unofficial information gained or acquired from another and not part of one's direct knowledge: I pay no attention to hearsay.
- heartily — in a hearty manner; cordially: He was greeted heartily.
- heathery — of or like heather.
- hectorly — in the manner of a hector
- henry ii — ("Henry the Saint") 973–1024, king of Germany 1002–24 and emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1014–24.
- henry iv — 1050–1106, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and king of Germany 1056–1106.
- henry vi — 1165–97, king of Germany 1190–97; king of Sicily 1194–97; emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1191–97 (son of Frederick I).
- henryson — Robert. ?1430–?1506, Scottish poet. His works include Testament of Cresseid (1593), a sequel to Chaucer's Troilus and Cressida, the 13 Moral Fables of Esope the Phrygian, and the pastoral dialogue Robene and Makyne
- heraldry — the science of armorial bearings.
- hereaway — hereabout.
- heredity — the transmission of genetic characters from parents to offspring: it is dependent upon the segregation and recombination of genes during meiosis and fertilization and results in the genesis of a new individual similar to others of its kind but exhibiting certain variations resulting from the particular mix of genes and their interactions with the environment.
- hermitry — a person who has withdrawn to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion.
- herstory — history (used especially in feminist literature and in women's studies as an alternative form to distinguish or emphasize the particular experience of women).
- hexarchy — a group of six allied states or kingdoms each under its own ruler.
- hey rube — a fight between townspeople and the members of a circus or carnival.
- hickorys — a city in W North Carolina.
- hierurgy — a holy act or rite of worship.
- hilarity — cheerfulness; merriment; mirthfulness.
- hoarsely — having a vocal tone characterized by weakness of intensity and excessive breathiness; husky: the hoarse voice of the auctioneer.
- holarchy — a system composed of interacting holons