8-letter words containing a, n, h, e, d
- handsets — Plural form of handset.
- handsewn — sewn by hand.
- handsome — having an attractive, well-proportioned, and imposing appearance suggestive of health and strength; good-looking: a handsome man; a handsome woman.
- handwave — [possibly from gestures characteristic of stage magicians] To gloss over a complex point; to distract a listener; to support a (possibly actually valid) point with blatantly faulty logic. If someone starts a sentence with "Clearly..." or "Obviously..." or "It is self-evident that...", it is a good bet he is about to handwave (alternatively, use of these constructions in a sarcastic tone before a paraphrase of someone else's argument suggests that it is a handwave). The theory behind this term is that if you wave your hands at the right moment, the listener may be sufficiently distracted to not notice that what you have said is wrong. Failing that, if a listener does object, you might try to dismiss the objection with a wave of your hand. The use of this word is often accompanied by gestures: both hands up, palms forward, swinging the hands in a vertical plane pivoting at the elbows and/or shoulders (depending on the magnitude of the handwave); alternatively, holding the forearms in one position while rotating the hands at the wrist to make them flutter. In context, the gestures alone can suffice as a remark; if a speaker makes an outrageously unsupported assumption, you might simply wave your hands in this way, as an accusation, far more eloquent than words could express, that his logic is faulty.
- handymen — Plural form of handyman.
- hangared — a shed or shelter.
- hankered — to have a restless or incessant longing (often followed by after, for, or an infinitive).
- happened — to take place; come to pass; occur: Something interesting is always happening in New York.
- hardened — made or become hard or harder.
- hardener — a person or thing that hardens.
- hardinge — Henry, 1st Viscount Hardinge of Lahore. 1785–1856, British politician, soldier, and colonial administrator; governor general of India (1844–48)
- hardline — an uncompromising or unyielding stand, especially in politics.
- hardness — the state or quality of being hard: the hardness of ice.
- hardnose — a person who is tough and uncompromising
- harkened — Simple past tense and past participle of harken.
- hasidean — Assidean.
- hastened — to move or act with haste; proceed with haste; hurry: to hasten to a place.
- haunched — the hip.
- headband — a band worn around the head; fillet.
- headbang — To engage in headbanging, the vigorous movement of the head in time to music.
- headhunt — a headhunting expedition: The men left the village to go on a headhunt.
- headings — Plural form of heading.
- headland — a promontory extending into a large body of water.
- 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.
- headlong — with the head foremost; headfirst: to plunge headlong into the water.
- headnote — a brief summary, comment, or explanation that precedes a chapter, report, etc.
- headring — an African head decoration and symbol of maturity
- headsman — a public executioner who beheads condemned persons.
- headsmen — Plural form of headsman.
- headwind — a wind opposed to the course of a moving object, especially an aircraft or other vehicle (opposed to tailwind).
- hendeca- — eleven
- herdsman — a herder; the keeper of a herd, especially of cattle or sheep.
- herodian — of or relating to Herod the Great, his family, or its partisans.
- hindhead — the back of the head
- hinsdale — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- hollande — François (frɑ̃swa). born 1954, French socialist politician, president of France (2012–17)
- homeland — one's native land.
- hyoidean — Also, hyoidal, hyoidean. noting or pertaining to a U -shaped bone at the root of the tongue in humans, or a corresponding bone or collection of bones in animals.
- inarched — Simple past tense and past participle of inarch.
- jihadeen — jihadists
- junkhead — (slang) a junkie, drug addict.
- knobhead — a stupid person
- knothead — (informal) A stupid or stubborn person.
- landwehr — (in Germany, Austria, etc.) the part of the organized military forces of a nation that has completed a certain amount of compulsory training, and whose continuous service is required only in time of war.
- launched — to set (a boat or ship) in the water.
- lefthand — Alternative form of left-hand.
- lionhead — a small breed of rabbit with long fur around the face
- longhead — a dolichocephalic person.
- lunkhead — a dull or stupid person; blockhead.