8-letter words containing t, e, r
- heketara — a small shrub, Olearia rani, which has flowers with white petals and yellow centres
- heliport — a landing place for helicopters, often on the roof of a building or in some other limited area.
- hemipter — a hemipterous insect
- henroost — A place used by hens for roosting.
- heptarch — A heptarchist.
- hepworth — Dame Barbara, 1903–75, English sculptor.
- heraklit — (language) A distributed object-oriented language.
- herb tea — a tea made of dried herbs and spices and usually containing no caffeine.
- 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
- hereunto — to this matter, document, subject, etc.; regarding this point: attached hereto; agreeable hereto.
- 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- hermitic — a person who has withdrawn to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion.
- hermitry — a person who has withdrawn to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion.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.
- herstory — history (used especially in feminist literature and in women's studies as an alternative form to distinguish or emphasize the particular experience of women).
- hertford — a city in and the county seat of Hertfordshire, in SE England.
- hetaerae — a highly cultured courtesan or concubine, especially in ancient Greece.
- hetairai — hetaera.
- hetairia — a society or association
- hetarism — Alternative form of hetaerism.
- hexeract — (mathematics) A six-dimensional hypercube.
- 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.
- 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.
- holsters — Plural form of holster.
- homeport — The port where a vessel is based (not necessarily the one where it is registered).
- 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.
- hoopster — a basketball player.
- hormetic — of or relating to hormesis
- horopter — a projection of the points in the visual field corresponding to the aggregate of points registering on the two retinas.
- hortense — a female given name.
- hosteler — a person who operates a hostel.