8-letter words containing y, a, h, r
- feathery — clothed or covered with feathers; feathered.
- flaherty — Robert Joseph, 1884–1951, U.S. pioneer in the production of documentary motion pictures.
- fujayrah — Al-, one of the United Arab Emirates, on the Gulf of Oman.
- garishly — crudely or tastelessly colorful, showy, or elaborate, as clothes or decoration.
- graithly — in a graith manner
- gray hat — a hacker who violates the security of a system without true malicious intent but often without the prior knowledge or consent of the owner or developer, and who later reports system vulnerabilities to the authorities, sometimes for personal profit.
- grayfish — a name used in marketing for any of several American sharks, especially the dogfishes of the genus Squalus.
- greyhead — a person with grey hair
- gynarchy — government by women.
- hagberry — Prunus padus, a species of cherry native to northern Europe and northern Asia, the bird cherry.
- halyards — Plural form of halyard.
- hanratty — James. 1936–62, Englishman executed, despite conflicting evidence, for a murder on the A6 road. Subsequent public concern played a major part in the abolition of capital punishment in Britain. New DNA evidence led to an appeal by Hanratty's supporters being dismissed in 2002
- hardbody — a person who is muscular and physically fit.
- hardcopy — copy, as computer output printed on paper, that can be read without using a special device (opposed to soft copy).
- haringey — a borough of Greater London, England.
- harlotry — prostitution.
- harmosty — the office of a harmost
- harrying — to harass, annoy, or prove a nuisance to by or as if by repeated attacks; worry: He was harried by constant doubts.
- hatchery — a place for hatching eggs of hens, fish, etc., especially a large, commercial or government site where the young are hatched, cared for, and sold or distributed.
- hay rake — a farm implement used to rake hay from a swath into a windrow.
- hayfever — Alternative spelling of hay fever.
- hayforks — Plural form of hayfork.
- haymaker — a person or machine that cuts hay and spreads it to dry.
- hayracks — Plural form of hayrack.
- hayrides — Plural form of hayride.
- hayworth — Rita (Margarita Carmen Cansino) 1918–87, U.S. dancer and actress.
- hazardry — the taking of risks
- hearsays — unverified, unofficial information gained or acquired from another and not part of one's direct knowledge: I pay no attention to hearsay.
- heartily — in a hearty manner; cordially: He was greeted heartily.
- heathery — of or like heather.
- heraldry — the science of armorial bearings.
- hereaway — hereabout.
- hexarchy — a group of six allied states or kingdoms each under its own ruler.
- hilarity — cheerfulness; merriment; mirthfulness.
- hoarsely — having a vocal tone characterized by weakness of intensity and excessive breathiness; husky: the hoarse voice of the auctioneer.
- holarchy — a system composed of interacting holons
- holiatry — holism (def 2).
- holy ark — a cabinet in a synagogue set into or against the wall that faces eastward toward Jerusalem, for keeping the scrolls of the Torah.
- holy war — a war waged for what is supposed or proclaimed to be a holy purpose, as the defense of faith.
- honorary — given for honor only, without the usual requirements, duties, privileges, emoluments, etc.: The university presented the new governor with an honorary degree.
- hoorayed — Simple past tense and past participle of hooray.
- horseway — a bridleway
- hurrayed — Simple past tense and past participle of hurray.
- hydracid — an acid that does not contain oxygen, as hydrochloric acid, HCl.
- hydranth — the terminal part of a hydroid polyp that bears the mouth and tentacles and contains the stomach region.
- hydrants — Plural form of hydrant.
- hydrarch — (of a sere) originating in a wet habitat.
- hydrated — chemically combined with water in its molecular form.
- hydrates — Plural form of hydrate.
- hydrator — something that hydrates.