8-letter words containing r, h, o, e
- hoarsest — Superlative form of hoarse.
- hoaxster — Alternative form of hoaxer (rare).
- hobrecht — Jacob [jey-kuh b;; Dutch yah-kawp] /ˈdʒeɪ kəb;; Dutch ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), Obrecht, Jacob.
- hoggerel — a sheep in its second or third year
- holdover — a person or thing remaining from a former period.
- hollered — to cry aloud; shout; yell: Quit hollering into the phone.
- holliger — Heinz (haints). born 1939, Swiss oboist and composer
- hollower — Comparative form of hollow.
- holsters — Plural form of holster.
- home row — (in touch typing) the row on a typewriter or computer keyboard that contains the keys (home keys) to which four fingers of each hand return as a base, on a QWERTY keyboard being A, S, D, and F for the left hand and J, K, L, and the semicolon for the right.
- 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.
- homebird — a person who is reluctant to leave their hometown or their childhood home, or who returns after a period of living away
- homeborn — That which is born in a given place, native, indigenous.
- homebred — bred or raised at home; native; indigenous; domestic.
- homebrew — beer or other alcoholic beverage made at home.
- homecare — The care and maintenance of one's home.
- homegirl — a girl or woman from the same locality as oneself.
- homelier — Comparative form of homely.
- homeport — The port where a vessel is based (not necessarily the one where it is registered).
- homering — Present participle of homer.
- homeroom — a classroom in which pupils in the same grade or division of a grade meet at certain times under the supervision of a teacher, who takes attendance and administers other school business.
- homeward — Also, homewards. toward home.
- homeware — crockery, furniture, and furnishings with which a house, room, etc, is furnished
- homework — schoolwork assigned to be done outside the classroom (distinguished from classwork).
- honecker — Erich [er-ik;; German ey-rikh] /ˈɛr ɪk;; German ˈeɪ rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1912–94, East German Communist leader: chairman of the Council of State 1976–89.
- honegger — Arthur [ahr-ther;; French ar-too r] /ˈɑr θər;; French arˈtʊər/ (Show IPA), 1892–1955, Swiss composer, born in France.
- honester — Comparative form of honest.
- honewort — any plant of the genus Cryptotaenia, of the parsley family, especially C. canadensis, having clusters of small white flowers.
- honorees — Plural form of honoree.
- honoured — to hold in honor or high respect; revere: to honor one's parents.
- honouree — One who receives an honour or award.
- hoopster — a basketball player.
- hoorayed — Simple past tense and past participle of hooray.
- hoovered — to clean with a vacuum cleaner.
- hordeola — sty2 .
- hormesis — Stimulation by the use of a low concentration of a toxin.
- hormetic — of or relating to hormesis
- hormones — Biochemistry. any of various internally secreted compounds, as insulin or thyroxine, formed in endocrine glands, that affect the functions of specifically receptive organs or tissues when transported to them by the body fluids.
- hornbeak — a dialect name for a fish known as the garfish, hornfish or sea needle
- hornbeam — any North American shrub or tree belonging to the genus Carpinus, of the birch family, yielding a hard, heavy wood, as C. caroliniana (American hornbeam)
- hornfels — a dark, fine-grained metamorphic rock, the result of recrystallization of siliceous or argillaceous sediments by contact metamorphism.
- horngeld — a feudal tax levied on horned cattle
- hornless — one of the bony, permanent, hollow paired growths, often curved and pointed, that project from the upper part of the head of certain ungulate mammals, as cattle, sheep, goats, or antelopes.
- hornlike — Projecting like a horn.
- hornpipe — an English folk clarinet having one ox horn concealing the reed and another forming the bell.
- horologe — any instrument for indicating the time, especially a sundial or an early form of clock.
- horopter — a projection of the points in the visual field corresponding to the aggregate of points registering on the two retinas.
- horrible — causing or tending to cause horror; shockingly dreadful: a horrible sight.
- horsebox — A vehicle for transporting horses.
- horsecar — a streetcar drawn by a horse or horses.