8-letter words containing h, y, d
- half-day — the interval of light between two successive nights; the time between sunrise and sunset: Since there was no artificial illumination, all activities had to be carried on during the day.
- halyards — Plural form of halyard.
- handedly — (nonstandard) Easily; with ease.
- handyman — a person hired to do various small jobs, especially in the maintenance of an apartment building, office building, or the like.
- handymen — Plural form of handyman.
- haploidy — (genetics) The state of being haploid.
- 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).
- hayfield — a field where grass, alfalfa, etc., are grown for making into hay.
- hayrides — Plural form of hayride.
- hayseeds — Plural form of hayseed.
- hazardry — the taking of risks
- head boy — The head boy of a school is the boy who is the leader of the prefects and who often represents the school on public occasions.
- headachy — having a headache.
- headedly — (in combination) In the specified headed manner.
- headstay — (on a sailing vessel) a stay leading forward from the head of the foremost mast to the stem head or the end of the bowsprit.
- heatedly — made hot or hotter; warmed.
- heraldry — the science of armorial bearings.
- 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.
- hexapody — a measure consisting of six feet.
- hiddenly — concealed; obscure; covert: hidden meaning; hidden hostility.
- hideaway — a place to which a person can retreat for safety, privacy, relaxation, or seclusion; refuge: His hideaway is in the mountains.
- high day — a holy or festal day.
- ho-daddy — one who engages in the sport of surfing or, esp., one who spends much time on beaches with surfers for vicarious excitement
- hodology — The study of pathways.
- holidays — Plural form of holiday.
- holliday — Judith Tuvim ("Judy") 1921–65, U.S. comic actress.
- holy day — a consecrated day or religious festival, especially one other than Sunday.
- holyhead — a seaport on Holy Island in NW Wales.
- holyrood — the cross on which Jesus died.
- holytide — a time of religious observances.
- homebody — a person who prefers pleasures and activities that center around the home; stay-at-home.
- homodyne — of or relating to reception by a device that generates a varying voltage of the same or nearly the same frequency as the incoming carrier wave and combines it with the incoming signal for detection.
- honeydew — honeydew melon.
- hoorayed — Simple past tense and past participle of hooray.
- horridly — such as to cause horror; shockingly dreadful; abominable.
- humidify — to make humid.
- humidity — humid condition; moistness; dampness.
- hump day — Wednesday
- hurrayed — Simple past tense and past participle of hurray.
- hushedly — to become or be silent or quiet: They hushed as the judge walked in.
- hydatids — Plural form of hydatid.
- hydatoid — watery; resembling water; transparent
- 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.