8-letter words containing i, h, e, a
- hijacked — Illegally seize (an aircraft, ship, or vehicle) in transit and force it to go to a different destination or use it for one's own purposes.
- hijacker — a person who hijacks.
- hindhead — the back of the head
- hinsdale — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- hire car — a car that you rent for a specified, usually short, period
- hireable — able to be hired; fit for hiring.
- hit rate — (architecture) The fraction of all memory reads which are satisfied from the cache.
- hittable — (of a ball or pitch) capable of being hit
- hiveward — (of a bee's movement) towards the hive
- hiwassee — a river in NE Georgia, SW North Carolina, and SE Tennessee, flowing N to the Tennessee River. 150 miles (241 km) long.
- hoariest — Superlative form of hoary.
- 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.
- huisache — a tropical and subtropical New World shrub, Acacia farnesiana, of the legume family, having clusters of fragrant, deep-yellow flower heads.
- humanise — to make humane, kind, or gentle.
- humanize — to make humane, kind, or gentle.
- huxleian — of, relating to, or characteristic or suggestive of Aldous Huxley or his writings.
- hydremia — the state of having an excess of water in the blood.
- hymenial — relating to the layer of certain fungi which bears spores, composed of asci or basidia
- 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.
- hyphemia — bleeding inside the eye caused by ruptured blood vessels
- hysteria — an uncontrollable outburst of emotion or fear, often characterized by irrationality, laughter, weeping, etc.
- ianthine — having a violet colour
- icekhana — an auto-racing competition testing driving skills on a frozen lake.
- ihimaera — Witi (ˈwɪtɪ), full name Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler. born 1944, New Zealand Māori novelist and short-story writer; his novels include The Whale Rider (1987) and The Uncle's Story (2002)
- impleach — to intertwine
- in haste — in a hurried way
- in phase — having the same phase.
- in shape — person: physically fit
- inarched — Simple past tense and past participle of inarch.
- inchmeal — by inches; inch by inch; little by little.
- inchoate — not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary.
- inchtape — a measuring tape marked out in inches
- ingather — to gather or bring in, as a harvest.
- inhalers — Plural form of inhaler.
- inhearse — (transitive) To place into, or as if into, a hearse or coffin.
- inhumane — not humane; lacking humanity, kindness, compassion, etc.
- inhumate — to bury; inhume
- iolanthe — an operetta (1882) by Sir William S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan.
- ischemia — local deficiency of blood supply produced by vasoconstriction or local obstacles to the arterial flow.
- isophane — (uncountable, medicine) A synthetic form of insulin used to treat diabetes.
- jacinthe — a yellowish orange
- jahrzeit — the anniversary of the death of a parent, sibling, child, or spouse, observed by lighting a memorial lamp or candle the night before and reciting the Kaddish at the evening service of the day before and at the morning and afternoon services of the day itself.
- japhetic — of or relating to Japheth.
- jehangir — 1569–1627, 4th Mogul emperor in India 1605–27 (son of Akbar).
- jehoiada — a priest of Judah who led the revolt against Athalia. II Kings 11:1–16.
- jeremiah — a Major Prophet of the 6th and 7th centuries b.c.
- jihadeen — jihadists
- judahite — a member of the tribe of Judah or of the kingdom of Judah.
- kaffiyeh — an Arab headdress for men; made from a diagonally folded square of cloth held in place by an agal wound around the head.
- kehillah — the organization of the Jewish population of a community that deals with charities and other communal affairs.