8-Letter Words That Start With: HARD

• a book with cardboard or cloth or leather covers

• having a hard back or cover

• very hard unsalted biscuit or bread; a former ship's staple

• a mountain mahogany

• a state of misfortune or affliction

• something hard to endure

• something that causes or entails suffering

• the wood of broad-leaved dicotyledonous trees (as distinguished from the wood of conifers)

• One who is practical or hardheaded.

• A brown diving duck, Aythya australis, native to Australia.

• Any of various freshwater cyprinid fishes of the genus Mylopharodon, or of saltwater sciaenid (Sciaenidae) fishes.

• Any of several weeds in or formerly classified in the genus Centaurea, particularly Russian knapweed (Acroptilon repens).

• Residual ore that failed to melt during a smelting process.

• Clash or collision of heads in contest.

• A Scottish billon coin circulated in the reigns of Mary and James VI.

• major items of military weaponry (as tanks or missile)

• instrumentalities (tools or implements) made of metal

• (computer science) the mechanical, magnetic, electronic, and electrical components making up a computer system

• To connect components by means of permanent electrical wires.

• To implement a feature in hardware rather than in software so that it cannot easily be changed.

• (by extension) To make a pattern of behaviour automatic.

• A helmet, usually made from rigid plastic, used on construction sites to protect the head from falling objects.

• A person who wears a hard hat, such as a construction worker.