8-letter words containing r, h, a, g, i
- hangfire — a delay in the detonation of gunpowder or other ammunition, caused by some defect in the fuze.
- hardinge — Henry, 1st Viscount Hardinge of Lahore. 1785–1856, British politician, soldier, and colonial administrator; governor general of India (1844–48)
- hargeisa — a city in NW Somalia.
- haringey — a borough of Greater London, England.
- harpings — any of several horizontal members at the ends of a vessel for holding cant frames in position until the shell planking or plating is attached.
- harrying — to harass, annoy, or prove a nuisance to by or as if by repeated attacks; worry: He was harried by constant doubts.
- harshing — Present participle of harsh.
- havering — a borough of Greater London, England.
- headring — an African head decoration and symbol of maturity
- hearings — Plural form of hearing.
- hearsing — Present participle of hearse.
- hearting — Present participle of heart.
- heritage — something that is handed down from the past, as a tradition: a national heritage of honor, pride, and courage.
- high bar — a bar fixed in a position parallel to the floor or ground, for use in chinning and other exercises.
- highroad — Chiefly British. a main road; highway.
- hiragana — the cursive and more widely used of the two Japanese syllabaries.
- hoarding — a supply or accumulation that is hidden or carefully guarded for preservation, future use, etc.: a vast hoard of silver.
- ingather — to gather or bring in, as a harvest.
- isograph — (in the study of the geographical distribution of a dialect) a line drawn on a map to indicate areas having common linguistic characteristics.
- jahangir — 1569–1627, 4th Mogul emperor in India 1605–27 (son of Akbar).
- jehangir — 1569–1627, 4th Mogul emperor in India 1605–27 (son of Akbar).
- litharge — a yellowish or reddish, odorless, heavy, earthy, water-insoluble, poisonous solid, PbO, used chiefly in the manufacture of storage batteries, pottery, lead glass, paints, enamels, and inks.
- longhair — Sometimes Disparaging. an intellectual.
- maghrebi — a native or inhabitant of the Maghreb.
- marching — to touch at the border; border.
- narghile — a Middle Eastern tobacco pipe in which the smoke is drawn through water before reaching the lips; hookah.
- nargileh — Alternative form of narghile.
- nightjar — a nocturnal European bird, Caprimulgus europaeus, of the family Caprimulgidae, having a short bill and a wide mouth and feeding on insects captured in the air.
- nuraghic — relating to the Bronze Age Sardinian civilization that is distinguished by nuraghe
- oligarch — one of the rulers in an oligarchy.
- orangish — resembling or suggesting an orange, as in taste, appearance, or color: decorated with orangy-pink flowers.
- parching — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
- pharming — the process of producing medically useful products from genetically modified plants and animals.
- phrasing — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- phrygian — of or relating to Phrygia, its people, or their language.
- ranching — an establishment maintained for raising livestock under range conditions.
- rayleigh — John William Strutt [struht] /strʌt/ (Show IPA), 3rd Baron, 1842–1919, English physicist: Nobel prize 1904.
- rheingau — a small wine-growing region in Hesse, in central Germany, on the Rhine.
- ringhals — a highly venomous snake, Hemachatus haemachatus, of southern Africa, related to the cobras, having one to three light-colored bands across its throat and characterized by its ability to accurately spit its venom up to 7 feet (2.1 meter) away.
- roaching — Nautical. the upward curve at the foot of a square sail. (loosely) a convexity given to any of the edges of a sail; round.
- sharking — a person who preys greedily on others, as by cheating or usury.
- sharping — having a thin cutting edge or a fine point; well-adapted for cutting or piercing: a sharp knife.
- shearing — Usually, shears. (sometimes used with a singular verb) scissors of large size (usually used with pair of). any of various other cutting implements or machines having two blades that resemble or suggest those of scissors.
- straight — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- taghairm — a form of divination once practised in the Highlands of Scotland
- thirlage — an obligation imposed upon tenants of certain lands requiring them to have their grain ground at a specified mill
- thrawing — British Dialect. to throw.
- trashing — anything worthless, useless, or discarded; rubbish.
- trigraph — a group of three letters representing a single speech sound, as eau in beau.
- vagarish — vaguely or somewhat vagarious; relating to a whim