8-letter words containing i, s, h
- happiest — delighted, pleased, or glad, as over a particular thing: to be happy to see a person.
- hardiest — capable of enduring fatigue, hardship, exposure, etc.; sturdy; strong: hardy explorers of northern Canada.
- hardship — a condition that is difficult to endure; suffering; deprivation; oppression: a life of hardship.
- harelips — Plural form of harelip.
- hargeisa — a city in NW Somalia.
- 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.
- harpists — Plural form of harpist.
- harriers — Plural form of harrier.
- harrison — Benjamin, 1726?–91, American political leader (father of William Henry Harrison).
- harshing — Present participle of harsh.
- hasidean — Assidean.
- hasidism — the principles and practices of the Hasidim.
- hassling — a disorderly dispute.
- hastiest — Superlative form of hasty.
- hastings — Thomas, 1860–1929, U.S. architect.
- hauliers — Plural form of haulier.
- hautbois — hautboy.
- hawkbits — Plural form of hawkbit.
- hayrides — Plural form of hayride.
- haziness — characterized by the presence of haze; misty: hazy weather.
- headfish — ocean sunfish.
- headings — Plural form of heading.
- headsail — any of various jibs or staysails set forward of the foremost mast of a vessel.
- headship — the position of head or chief; chief authority; leadership; supremacy.
- hearings — Plural form of hearing.
- hearsing — Present participle of hearse.
- hearties — Plural form of hearty.
- heatsink — Alternative spelling of heat sink.
- heaviest — of great weight; hard to lift or carry: a heavy load.
- heavings — Plural form of heaving.
- hebraism — an expression or construction distinctive of the Hebrew language.
- hebraist — a person versed in 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).
- hedonics — the branch of psychology that deals with pleasurable and unpleasurable states of consciousness.
- hedonism — the doctrine that pleasure or happiness is the highest good.
- hedonist — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
- heelside — (board sports) the side of the board nearest the heel.
- heftiest — Superlative form of hefty.
- heighths — (archaic) Plural form of heighth; an archaic variant of heights.
- heiltsuk — a member of a coastal Native Canadian people living in British Columbia
- heirless — a person who inherits or has a right of inheritance in the property of another following the latter's death.
- heirship — the position or rights of an heir; right of inheritance; inheritance.
- heisting — a robbery or holdup: Four men were involved in the armored car heist.
- helicase — any of the enzymes that use the energy derived from the hydrolysis of nucleoside triphosphates to unwind the double-stranded helical structure of nucleic acids: RNA and DNA helicases.
- helicons — Plural form of helicon.
- heliosis — the effect of overexposure to the sun
- helipads — Plural form of helipad.
- helistop — a heliport.
- hellions — Plural form of hellion.
- helotism — the state or quality of being a helot; serfdom.