8-letter words containing i, h, r
- headring — an African head decoration and symbol of maturity
- hearings — Plural form of hearing.
- hearsing — Present participle of hearse.
- heartier — Comparative form of hearty.
- hearties — Plural form of hearty.
- heartily — in a hearty manner; cordially: He was greeted heartily.
- hearting — Present participle of heart.
- heathier — heathery.
- hebraism — an expression or construction distinctive of the Hebrew language.
- hebraist — a person versed in the Hebrew language.
- hebraize — to use expressions or constructions distinctive of the Hebrew language.
- hebrides — a group of islands (Inner Hebrides and Outer Hebrides) off the W coast of and belonging to Scotland. About 2900 sq. mi. (7500 sq. km).
- heinrich — a male given name, Germanic form of Henry.
- heirless — a person who inherits or has a right of inheritance in the property of another following the latter's death.
- heirloom — a family possession handed down from generation to generation.
- heirship — the position or rights of an heir; right of inheritance; inheritance.
- heliodor — a clear yellow variety of beryl used as a gemstone.
- heliport — a landing place for helicopters, often on the roof of a building or in some other limited area.
- hellfire — the fire of hell.
- hemipter — a hemipterous insect
- hendrick — a male given name, form of Henry.
- 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).
- heraclid — a person claiming descent from Hercules, especially one of the Dorian aristocracy of Sparta.
- heraklit — (language) A distributed object-oriented language.
- heraldic — of, relating to, or characteristic of heralds or heraldry: heraldic form; heraldic images; heraldic history; a heraldic device.
- herbaria — Plural form of herbarium.
- herblike — Resembling a herb or some aspect of one.
- herdlike — Resembling a herd or some aspect of one, especially a propensity to follow blindly after a leader.
- herdwick — a hardy breed of coarse-woolled sheep from NW England
- 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.
- hereinto — into this place.
- heresies — Plural form of heresy.
- heretick — Obsolete form of heretic.
- heretics — Plural form of heretic.
- heretrix — a female inheritor, heiress
- herewith — along with this.
- herisson — A beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot, used to block up a passage.
- heritage — something that is handed down from the past, as a tradition: a national heritage of honor, pride, and courage.
- heritors — Plural form of heritor.
- herkimer — Nicholas, 1728–77, American Revolutionary general.
- hermetic — made airtight by fusion or sealing.
- hermione — the daughter of Menelaus and Helen.
- hermitic — a person who has withdrawn to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion.
- hermitry — a person who has withdrawn to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion.
- herniate — to protrude abnormally from an enclosed cavity or from the body so as to constitute a hernia.
- 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.
- heroines — Plural form of heroine.