8-letter words containing r, h, g
- 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.
- hatguard — a string to keep a hat from blowing off
- havering — a borough of Greater London, England.
- headgear — any covering for the head, especially a hat, cap, bonnet, etc.
- headring — an African head decoration and symbol of maturity
- hearings — Plural form of hearing.
- hearsing — Present participle of hearse.
- hearting — Present participle of heart.
- hedgerow — a row of bushes or trees forming a hedge.
- hemogram — a graphic record of the cellular elements of the blood.
- herbaged — covered with grass or herbage
- heritage — something that is handed down from the past, as a tradition: a national heritage of honor, pride, and courage.
- herrings — Plural form of herring.
- herzberg — Gerhard [gair-hahrd,, -hahrt] /ˈgɛər hɑrd,, -hɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1904–1999, Canadian physicist, born in Germany: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1971.
- hexagram — a six-pointed starlike figure formed of two equilateral triangles placed concentrically with each side of a triangle parallel to a side of the other and on opposite sides of the center.
- hierurgy — a holy act or rite of worship.
- high bar — a bar fixed in a position parallel to the floor or ground, for use in chinning and other exercises.
- high-res — high-resolution.
- highborn — of high rank by birth.
- highbred — of superior breed.
- highbrow — a person of superior intellectual interests and tastes.
- highrise — (of a building) having a comparatively large number of stories and equipped with elevators: a high-rise apartment house.
- highroad — Chiefly British. a main road; highway.
- hiragana — the cursive and more widely used of the two Japanese syllabaries.
- hireling — a person who works only for pay, especially in a menial or boring job, with little or no concern for the value of the work.
- hoarding — a supply or accumulation that is hidden or carefully guarded for preservation, future use, etc.: a vast hoard of silver.
- hog-ward — someone who looks after hogs
- hoggerel — a sheep in its second or third year
- holliger — Heinz (haints). born 1939, Swiss oboist and composer
- hologram — a negative produced by exposing a high-resolution photographic plate, without camera or lens, near a subject illuminated by monochromatic, coherent radiation, as from a laser: when it is placed in a beam of coherent light a true three-dimensional image of the subject is formed.
- homburgs — Plural form of homburg.
- homegirl — a girl or woman from the same locality as oneself.
- homering — Present participle of homer.
- honegger — Arthur [ahr-ther;; French ar-too r] /ˈɑr θər;; French arˈtʊər/ (Show IPA), 1892–1955, Swiss composer, born in France.
- honoring — honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
- horndogs — Plural form of horndog.
- horngeld — a feudal tax levied on horned cattle
- horologe — any instrument for indicating the time, especially a sundial or an early form of clock.
- horology — the art or science of making timepieces or of measuring time.
- hourlong — lasting an hour: an hourlong interview.
- hovering — Present participle of hover.
- humoring — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- 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.
- hungrily — having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger.
- hurdling — (athletics) A track and field running event where the runners have to jump over a number of hurdles.
- hurrying — to move, proceed, or act with haste (often followed by up): Hurry, or we'll be late. Hurry up, it's starting to rain.