8-letter words containing r, h, e, u
- harangue — a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe.
- harfleur — a port in N France, in Seine-Maritime department: important centre in the Middle Ages. Pop: 8602 (2005)
- haruspex — (in ancient Rome) one of a class of minor priests who practiced divination, especially from the entrails of animals killed in sacrifice.
- hatchure — Alternative form of hachure.
- hau tree — a clambering tree, Hibiscus tileaceus, of tropical shores, having leathery, ovate leaves and yellow flowers that turn dark red as they fade, and yielding a fiber used as cordage.
- hauberks — Plural form of hauberk.
- hauliers — Plural form of haulier.
- headrush — A sudden feeling of euphoria, especially as a result of taking drugs.
- hear out — listen to the end
- heartful — An amount of emotion considered to be present in the heart.
- hercules — a hero noted for his great strength, courage, and for the performance of twelve immense labours
- hereunto — to this matter, document, subject, etc.; regarding this point: attached hereto; agreeable hereto.
- hereupon — upon or on this.
- hesperus — an evening star, especially Venus.
- heuchera — any of various North American plants belonging to the genus Heuchera, of the saxifrage family, having clusters of small, cup-shaped flowers, especially the alumroots.
- hey rube — a fight between townspeople and the members of a circus or carnival.
- hierurgy — a holy act or rite of worship.
- hire out — to engage the services of (a person or persons) for wages or other payment: to hire a clerk.
- home run — Baseball. a hit that enables a batter, without the aid of a fielding error, to score a run by making a nonstop circuit of the bases.
- honoured — to hold in honor or high respect; revere: to honor one's parents.
- honouree — One who receives an honour or award.
- hounders — one of any of several breeds of dogs trained to pursue game either by sight or by scent, especially one with a long face and large drooping ears.
- hourlies — Plural form of hourly.
- huaquero — the Spanish name for a tomb or grave robber
- huarache — a Mexican sandal having the upper woven of leather strips.
- huckster — a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.
- huddlers — Plural form of huddler.
- huissier — an usher
- humiture — a measure of the discomfort most people feel because of the combined effects of atmospheric temperature and humidity; variously defined as Fahrenheit temperature plus some function of vapor pressure.
- humoresk — humorous musical composition
- humoured — Simple past tense and past participle of humour.
- humphrey — (Duke of Gloucester) 1391–1447, English soldier and statesman (youngest son of Henry IV).
- hundreds — a cardinal number, ten times ten.
- hundreth — Eye dialect of hundredth.
- hungered — Simple past tense and past participle of hunger.
- hungerly — marked by a hungry look.
- hungover — hung (def 3).
- hungrier — having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger.
- hunkered — Simple past tense and past participle of hunker.
- huntress — a woman who hunts.
- hurcheon — a hedgehog.
- hurdlers — Plural form of hurdler.
- hurrahed — Simple past tense and past participle of hurrah.
- hurrayed — Simple past tense and past participle of hurray.
- hurtless — unhurt; uninjured.
- hustlers — Plural form of hustler.
- inrushes — Plural form of inrush.
- jedburgh — a border town in the Borders region, in SE Scotland: ruins of an abbey.
- kerchunk — A sudden heavy blow or thump.
- larouche — Lyndon H., Jr. born 1922, U.S. economist and politician.