8-letter words containing r, e, t, h, i
- flichter — (of birds) to fly feebly; flutter.
- flighter — (of birds) to fly feebly; flutter.
- fortieth — next after the thirty-ninth; being the ordinal number for 40.
- free hit — in certain forms of cricket, esp one-day internationals, after the bowler has bowled a no-ball, a chance for a batsman to strike a ball without the possibility of being caught out
- freights — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of freight.
- frighted — Simple past tense and past participle of fright.
- frighten — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
- frothier — Comparative form of frothy.
- ghiberti — Lorenzo [law-ren-tsaw] /lɔˈrɛn tsɔ/ (Show IPA), 1378–1455, Florentine sculptor, goldsmith, and painter.
- graphite — a very common mineral, soft native carbon, occurring in black to dark-gray foliated masses, with metallic luster and greasy feel: used for pencil leads, as a lubricant, and for making crucibles and other refractories; plumbago; black lead.
- hair net — a cap of loose net, as of silk or nylon, for holding the hair in place.
- hairiest — covered with hair; having much hair.
- hairnets — Plural form of hairnet.
- hardiest — capable of enduring fatigue, hardship, exposure, etc.; sturdy; strong: hardy explorers of northern Canada.
- hartline — Haldan Keffer [hawl-duh n kef-er] /ˈhɔl dən ˈkɛf ər/ (Show IPA), 1903–83, U.S. physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1967.
- 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.
- hebraist — a person versed in the Hebrew language.
- heliport — a landing place for helicopters, often on the roof of a building or in some other limited area.
- hemipter — a hemipterous insect
- heraklit — (language) A distributed object-oriented language.
- 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.
- heretick — Obsolete form of heretic.
- heretics — Plural form of heretic.
- heretrix — a female inheritor, heiress
- herewith — along with this.
- 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.
- hermetic — made airtight by fusion or sealing.
- 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.
- herpetic — of, relating to, or caused by herpes.
- herptile — A reptile or amphibian.
- hetairai — hetaera.
- hetairia — a society or association
- hetarism — Alternative form of hetaerism.
- hieratic — Also, hieratical. of or relating to priests or the priesthood; sacerdotal; priestly.
- hipsters — hipsters, Chiefly British. hiphuggers (def 2).
- hire out — to engage the services of (a person or persons) for wages or other payment: to hire a clerk.
- hirrient — a trilled sound in speech or song
- historie — Archaic spelling of history.
- hit rate — (architecture) The fraction of all memory reads which are satisfied from the cache.
- hitherto — up to this time; until now: a fact hitherto unknown.
- hoariest — Superlative form of hoary.
- hormetic — of or relating to hormesis