8-letter words containing s, n, i
- hemmings — Plural form of hemming.
- herisson — A beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot, used to block up a passage.
- heroines — Plural form of heroine.
- herrings — Plural form of herring.
- hesitant — hesitating; undecided, doubtful, or disinclined.
- hessians — Plural form of Hessian.
- hex sign — any of various magical symbols of usually stylized design, as those painted on barns by the Pennsylvania Dutch for protection against evil spirits and now sometimes used for purely decorative purposes.
- hidlings — in secret, secretly
- highness — the quality or state of being high; loftiness.
- hillsman — A man who belongs to a tribe inhabiting the hills.
- hindcast — to test (a mathematical model) by observing whether it would have correctly predicted a historical event
- hindlegs — Plural form of hindleg.
- hindmost — furtherest behind or nearest the rear; last.
- hinduism — the common religion of India, based upon the religion of the original Aryan settlers as expounded and evolved in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad-Gita, etc., having an extremely diversified character with many schools of philosophy and theology, many popular cults, and a large pantheon symbolizing the many attributes of a single god. Buddhism and Jainism are outside the Hindu tradition but are regarded as related religions.
- hinglish — a variety of English incorporating elements of Hindi
- hinsdale — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- hipbones — Plural form of hipbone.
- his nibs — a mock title used of someone in authority
- hispania — Spain.
- hispanic — Spanish.
- hispano- — Hispanic
- histamin — Biochemistry, Physiology. a heterocyclic amine, C 5 H 9 N 3 , released by mast cells when tissue is injured or in allergic and inflammatory reactions, causing dilation of small blood vessels and smooth muscle contraction.
- histogen — a region in a plant in which tissues differentiate.
- histones — Plural form of histone.
- histrion — (obsolete) A stage actor.
- hobnails — Plural form of hobnail.
- hocusing — Present participle of hocus.
- hoisting — to raise or lift, especially by some mechanical appliance: to hoist a flag; to hoist the mainsail.
- hoistman — someone who operates a hoist
- hokiness — The state or condition of being hoky.
- hokinson — Helen, c1900–49, U.S. cartoonist.
- holdings — An area of land held by lease.
- holiness — the quality or state of being holy; sanctity.
- holstein — Also called Holstein-Friesian [hohl-stahyn-free-zhuh n, -steen-] /ˈhoʊl staɪnˈfri ʒən, -stin-/ (Show IPA). one of a breed of black-and-white dairy cattle, raised originally in North Holland and Friesland, that yields large quantities of milk having a low content of butterfat.
- hominess — comfortably informal and inviting; cozy; homelike: a homey little inn.
- hominids — any member of the group consisting of all modern and extinct humans and great apes (including gorillas, chimpanzees, and orangutans) and all their immediate ancestors.
- hominins — Plural form of hominin.
- honestie — Archaic spelling of honesty.
- honorius — (Giacomo Savelli) 1210–87, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1285–87.
- horizons — Plural form of horizon.
- hornists — Plural form of hornist.
- hotlines — Plural form of hotline.
- housings — Plural form of housing.
- housling — the growing of the climbing stem of the hop into a dense mass at the top of the poles which support it
- howlings — Plural form of howling.
- hsinking — Older Spelling. former name of Changchun.
- huggings — Plural form of hugging.
- humanics — the study of the nature or affairs of humankind.
- humanise — to make humane, kind, or gentle.
- humanism — any system or mode of thought or action in which human interests, values, and dignity predominate.