8-letter words containing h, u, i
- grumpish — Surly; sullen; gruff; grumpy.
- gumphion — a funeral banner
- gunfight — a battle between two or more people or groups armed with guns, especially a confrontation between two gunfighters using revolvers in the frontier days of the American West.
- gunships — Plural form of gunship.
- gunsight — A device on a gun that enables it to be aimed accurately.
- gunsmith — a person who makes or repairs firearms.
- gurkhali — the language of the Gurkhas, belonging to the Indic branch of the Indo-European family
- gurmukhi — the script used for writing the Punjabi language
- guruship — The status of a guru.
- gushiest — Superlative form of gushy.
- habitual — of the nature of a habit; fixed by or resulting from habit: habitual courtesy.
- habitude — customary condition or character: a healthy mental habitude.
- habitues — Plural form of habitu\u00e9.
- haircuts — Plural form of haircut.
- halibuts — Plural form of halibut.
- halitous — relating to a mist or emission
- halloumi — a salty cheese originating in Cyprus and made from sheep’s or goat’s milk: often grilled or fried because it melts very slowly.
- halutzim — a person who immigrates to Israel to establish or join a settlement for accomplishing tasks, as clearing the land or planting trees, that are necessary to future development of the country.
- hanukiah — a candelabrum having nine branches that is lit during the festival of Hanukkah
- 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.
- hauliers — Plural form of haulier.
- haunting — remaining in the consciousness; not quickly forgotten: haunting music; haunting memories.
- hauriant — (of a fish) represented as erect, with the head upward: a dolphin hauriant.
- hautbois — hautboy.
- hauynite — a relatively rare feldspathoid mineral related to sodalite: sometimes confused with lapis lazuli.
- heiltsuk — a member of a coastal Native Canadian people living in British Columbia
- helenium — An American plant of the daisy family that bears many red to yellow flowers, each having a prominent central disk.
- helium i — colorless liquid helium existing below its boiling point of 4.2 K and above the lambda point of 2.186 K.
- hemionus — (zoology, obsolete) A wild ass found in Tibet; the kiang.
- hevelius — Johannes (Johann Hewel or Hewelke) 1611–87, Polish astronomer: charted the moon's surface and discovered four comets.
- hiatuses — Plural form of hiatus.
- hibiscus — Also called China rose. a woody plant, Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, of the mallow family, having large, showy flowers: the state flower of Hawaii.
- hiccough — a quick, involuntary inhalation that follows a spasm of the diaphragm and is suddenly checked by closure of the glottis, producing a short, relatively sharp sound.
- hiccuped — Simple past tense and past participle of hiccup.
- hide out — British. a place of concealment for hunting or observing wildlife; hunting blind.
- hide-out — a hiding place, as for gangsters
- hideouts — Plural form of hideout.
- hierurgy — a holy act or rite of worship.
- highbush — Being, or coming from, a bush of high stature (used in names of certain fruits, such as highbush blueberry and highbush cranberry).
- hike out — to lean backwards over the side of a light sailing boat in order to carry the centre of gravity as far to windward as possible to reduce heeling
- hilarius — Saint, died a.d. 468, pope 461–468.
- hinduism — the common religion of India, based upon the religion of the original Aryan settlers as expounded and evolved in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad-Gita, etc., having an extremely diversified character with many schools of philosophy and theology, many popular cults, and a large pantheon symbolizing the many attributes of a single god. Buddhism and Jainism are outside the Hindu tradition but are regarded as related religions.
- hinduize — to convert to or bring under the influence of Hinduism.
- hindutva — (in India) a political movement advocating Hindu nationalism and the establishment of a Hindu state
- hippuric — of or relating to hippuric acid
- hiranuma — Baron Kiichiro [kee-ee-chee-raw] /kiˈi tʃiˌrɔ/ (Show IPA), 1867?–1952, Japanese statesman.
- hire out — to engage the services of (a person or persons) for wages or other payment: to hire a clerk.
- hit upon — to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
- hitch up — pull higher; clothing, suspender
- hocusing — Present participle of hocus.