8-letter words containing a, i, l, n
- gloating — to look at or think about with great or excessive, often smug or malicious, satisfaction: The opposing team gloated over our bad luck.
- glossina — tsetse fly.
- gloxinia — any of several horticultural varieties of a plant belonging to the genus Sinningia, of the gesneria family, especially S. speciosa, having large white, red, or purple bell-shaped flowers.
- gnarling — a knotty protuberance on a tree; knot.
- gnatling — a small gnat
- gnomical — Gnomic.
- goatling — a young goat
- golfiana — golfing collectibles
- grayling — any freshwater fish of the genus Thymallus, related to the trouts but having a longer and higher, brilliantly colored dorsal fin.
- gymnical — Alternative form of gymnic.
- hackling — Present participle of hackle.
- haffling — Present participle of haffle.
- haggling — Present participle of haggle.
- hairline — a very slender line.
- halafian — of or belonging to the Neolithic culture chiefly of northern Syria, dating to the fifth millennium b.c. and characterized by adobe dwellings and polychrome pottery decorated with animal designs and geometric patterns.
- halation — a blurred effect around the edges of highlight areas in a photographic image caused by reflection and scattering of light through the emulsion from the back surface of the film support or plate.
- halfling — (in fiction and fantasy) a member of a race of small people.
- halligan — A tool, used mostly by firemen, to pry open buildings, manholes, wrecked cars, etc.
- hamilton — William Hamilton
- handbill — a small printed notice, advertisement, or announcement, usually for distribution by hand.
- handlike — Resembling a hand.
- handling — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
- handlist — a list, as of the contents of a collection, containing few details
- handmill — A mill for grinding grain, pepper, coffee, etc. worked by hand as distinguished from those driven by steam, water, or other power; a quern.
- handrail — a rail serving as a support or guard at the side of a stairway, platform, etc.
- hangnail — a small piece of partly detached skin at the side or base of the fingernail.
- hannibal — 247–183 b.c, Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps and invaded Italy (son of Hamilcar Barca).
- hardline — an uncompromising or unyielding stand, especially in politics.
- harmalin — chemical derived from harmala
- hartline — Haldan Keffer [hawl-duh n kef-er] /ˈhɔl dən ˈkɛf ər/ (Show IPA), 1903–83, U.S. physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1967.
- hassling — a disorderly dispute.
- haviland — John, 1792–1852, English architect, in the U.S.
- hawkling — A small, young, or immature hawk.
- headline — a heading in a newspaper for any written material, sometimes for an illustration, to indicate subject matter, set in larger type than that of the copy and containing one or more words and lines and often several banks.
- headling — (obsolete) An equal; a fellow; mate.
- hegelian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Hegel or his philosophical system.
- hibernal — of or relating to winter; wintry.
- hielaman — an Australian Aboriginal shield
- hielamon — a shield made of wood or bark.
- highland — a region in N Scotland, including a number of the Inner Hebrides. 9710 sq. mi. (25,148 sq. km).
- hillsman — A man who belongs to a tribe inhabiting the hills.
- hinsdale — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- hobnails — Plural form of hobnail.
- hollaing — Present participle of holla.
- hooligan — a ruffian or hoodlum.
- horntail — any of various wasplike insects of the family Siricidae, the females of which have a hornlike ovipositor.
- huxleian — of, relating to, or characteristic or suggestive of Aldous Huxley or his writings.
- hymenial — relating to the layer of certain fungi which bears spores, composed of asci or basidia
- iconical — Pertaining to or consisting of images or icons.
- illation — the act of inferring.