8-letter words containing i, n, h, a
- handrail — a rail serving as a support or guard at the side of a stairway, platform, etc.
- hang it! — an exclamation of anger or exasperation
- hangbird — a bird that builds a hanging nest, especially the Baltimore oriole.
- hangfire — a delay in the detonation of gunpowder or other ammunition, caused by some defect in the fuze.
- hangings — Plural form of hanging.
- hangnail — a small piece of partly detached skin at the side or base of the fingernail.
- hannibal — 247–183 b.c, Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps and invaded Italy (son of Hamilcar Barca).
- hanukiah — a candelabrum having nine branches that is lit during the festival of Hanukkah
- haptenic — (immunology) Of or pertaining to a hapten.
- 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.
- haringey — a borough of Greater London, England.
- harmalin — chemical derived from harmala
- harmonia — the daughter of Ares and Aphrodite and wife of Cadmus.
- harmonic — pertaining to harmony, as distinguished from melody and rhythm.
- harpings — any of several horizontal members at the ends of a vessel for holding cant frames in position until the shell planking or plating is attached.
- harridan — a scolding, vicious woman; hag; shrew.
- harriman — Edward Henry, 1848–1909, U.S. financier and railroad magnate.
- harrison — Benjamin, 1726?–91, American political leader (father of William Henry Harrison).
- harrying — to harass, annoy, or prove a nuisance to by or as if by repeated attacks; worry: He was harried by constant doubts.
- harshing — Present participle of harsh.
- hartline — Haldan Keffer [hawl-duh n kef-er] /ˈhɔl dən ˈkɛf ər/ (Show IPA), 1903–83, U.S. physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1967.
- hasidean — Assidean.
- hassling — a disorderly dispute.
- hastings — Thomas, 1860–1929, U.S. architect.
- hatching — a shading line in drawing or engraving.
- 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.
- hauynite — a relatively rare feldspathoid mineral related to sodalite: sometimes confused with lapis lazuli.
- havering — a borough of Greater London, England.
- haviland — John, 1792–1852, English architect, in the U.S.
- hawaiian — of or relating to Hawaii or the Hawaiian Islands.
- hawfinch — a European grosbeak, Coccothraustes coccothraustes.
- hawkling — A small, young, or immature hawk.
- haziness — characterized by the presence of haze; misty: hazy weather.
- headings — Plural form of heading.
- headline — a heading in a newspaper for any written material, sometimes for an illustration, to indicate subject matter, set in larger type than that of the copy and containing one or more words and lines and often several banks.
- headling — (obsolete) An equal; a fellow; mate.
- headring — an African head decoration and symbol of maturity
- headwind — a wind opposed to the course of a moving object, especially an aircraft or other vehicle (opposed to tailwind).
- hearings — Plural form of hearing.
- hearsing — Present participle of hearse.
- hearting — Present participle of heart.
- heatsink — Alternative spelling of heat sink.
- heavings — Plural form of heaving.
- hegelian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Hegel or his philosophical system.
- hematein — a reddish-brown, crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 16 H 12 O 6 , obtained from logwood: used chiefly as a stain in microscopy.
- hematine — Biochemistry. heme.
- hennaing — an Asian shrub or small tree, Lawsonia inermis, of the loosestrife family, having elliptic leaves and fragrant flowers.
- herniate — to protrude abnormally from an enclosed cavity or from the body so as to constitute a hernia.