8-letter words containing a, d, h, o
- headwork — mental labor; thought.
- hebdomad — the number seven.
- hematoid — hemoid.
- herodian — of or relating to Herod the Great, his family, or its partisans.
- herodias — the second wife of Herod Antipas and the mother of Salome: she told Salome to ask Herod for the head of John the Baptist.
- hexapods — Plural form of hexapod.
- hexapody — a measure consisting of six feet.
- hidalgos — Plural form of hidalgo.
- highroad — Chiefly British. a main road; highway.
- ho-daddy — one who engages in the sport of surfing or, esp., one who spends much time on beaches with surfers for vicarious excitement
- hoagland — Edward, born 1932, U.S. novelist and essayist.
- hoarders — Plural form of hoarder.
- hoarding — a supply or accumulation that is hidden or carefully guarded for preservation, future use, etc.: a vast hoard of silver.
- hoarhead — someone, esp an old man, with white hair
- hog-ward — someone who looks after hogs
- hogshead — a large cask, especially one containing from 63 to 140 gallons (238 to 530 liters).
- hokkaido — a large island in N Japan. 30,303 sq. mi. (78,485 sq. km).
- holdable — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- holdalls — Plural form of holdall.
- holdback — the iron or strap on the shaft of a horse-drawn vehicle to which the breeching of the harness is attached, enabling the horse to hold back or to back the vehicle.
- holdfast — something used to hold or secure a thing in place; a catch, hook, clamp, etc.
- holidays — Plural form of holiday.
- hollande — François (frɑ̃swa). born 1954, French socialist politician, president of France (2012–17)
- hollands — John Philip, 1840–1914, Irish inventor in the U.S.
- 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.
- homaloid — a geometrical plane, a flat surface or space
- homeland — one's native land.
- homemade — made or prepared at home, locally, or by the maker's own efforts: The restaurant's pastry is homemade. Breakfast at the farmhouse always meant homemade preserves.
- homeward — Also, homewards. toward home.
- honduran — a republic in NE Central America. 43,277 sq. mi. (112,087 sq. km). Capital: Tegucigalpa.
- honduras — a republic in NE Central America. 43,277 sq. mi. (112,087 sq. km). Capital: Tegucigalpa.
- honorand — the recipient of an honor, especially an honorary university degree.
- hood rat — a young promiscuous woman from an impoverished urban area
- hookload — The hookload is the total force pulling down on the hook (= a high-capacity J-shaped piece of equipment).
- hoorayed — Simple past tense and past participle of hooray.
- hopheads — (slang) Plural form of hophead.
- hordeola — sty2 .
- horn-mad — furiously enraged; intensely angry.
- hospodar — a former title of governors or princes of Wallachia and Moldavia.
- hostaged — a person given or held as security for the fulfillment of certain conditions or terms, promises, etc., by another.
- hot-draw — Metalworking. to draw (wire, tubing, etc.) at a temperature high enough to permit recrystallization.
- hotheads — Plural form of hothead.
- humanoid — having human characteristics or form; resembling human beings.
- hydatoid — watery; resembling water; transparent
- hydrator — something that hydrates.
- hydrolat — An aromatic hydrosol, especially one made by steam distillation of a plant extract.
- hydropac — an urgent warning of navigational dangers in the Pacific Ocean, issued by the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office.
- hydrozoa — (biology) a large group of marine animals, of the class Hydrozoa, whose life cycles contain a sexual and asexual stage.