8-letter words containing e, l, i, h
- hadfield — Sir Robert Abbott, 1858–1940, English metallurgist and industrialist.
- hair gel — a jelly-like substance applied to the hair before styling in order to retain the shape of the style
- hairless — without hair; bald: his pink hairless pate.
- hairlike — any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
- hairline — a very slender line.
- half-lie — something that a person says or writes that they know to be partly untrue
- half-pie — poorly planned or conceived
- halflife — Alternative spelling of half-life.
- halfpipe — Alternative form of half-pipe.
- halftime — the period indicating completion of half the time allowed for an activity, as for a football or basketball game or an examination.
- halidome — a holy place, as a church or sanctuary.
- halolike — resembling a halo.
- handlike — Resembling a hand.
- hardline — an uncompromising or unyielding stand, especially in politics.
- harelips — Plural form of harelip.
- hartline — Haldan Keffer [hawl-duh n kef-er] /ˈhɔl dən ˈkɛf ər/ (Show IPA), 1903–83, U.S. physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1967.
- hatfield — a town in central Hertfordshire, in SE England: incorporated into (Welwyn Hatfield) 1974.
- hauliers — Plural form of haulier.
- hawklike — any of numerous birds of prey of the family Accipitridae, having a short, hooked beak, broad wings, and curved talons, often seen circling or swooping at low altitudes.
- hayfield — a field where grass, alfalfa, etc., are grown for making into hay.
- headlice — Alternative form of head lice.
- headlike — Having the form of a head or a skull.
- 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.
- headrail — a railing on a sailing vessel, extending forward from abaft the bow to the back of the figurehead.
- headsail — any of various jibs or staysails set forward of the foremost mast of a vessel.
- heartily — in a hearty manner; cordially: He was greeted heartily.
- heckling — to harass (a public speaker, performer, etc.) with impertinent questions, gibes, or the like; badger.
- hecticly — characterized by intense agitation, excitement, confused and rapid movement, etc.: The week before the trip was hectic and exhausting.
- heelside — (board sports) the side of the board nearest the heel.
- hegelian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Hegel or his philosophical system.
- heiltsuk — a member of a coastal Native Canadian people living in British Columbia
- heimdall — the god of dawn and light.
- heinlein — Robert A(nson) 1907–1988, U.S. science-fiction writer.
- heirless — a person who inherits or has a right of inheritance in the property of another following the latter's death.
- heirloom — a family possession handed down from generation to generation.
- helenium — An American plant of the daisy family that bears many red to yellow flowers, each having a prominent central disk.
- heliacal — pertaining to or occurring near the sun, especially applied to such risings and settings of a star as are most nearly coincident with those of the sun while yet visible.
- helicase — any of the enzymes that use the energy derived from the hydrolysis of nucleoside triphosphates to unwind the double-stranded helical structure of nucleic acids: RNA and DNA helicases.
- helicity — Helical character, especially of DNA.
- helicoid — coiled or curving like a spiral.
- helicons — Plural form of helicon.
- helicopt — to fly or transport using a helicopter
- helideck — (nautical) A platform (on a vessel or offshore structure) on which helicopters may land and take off.
- helilift — to transport by helicopter
- heliodor — a clear yellow variety of beryl used as a gemstone.
- heliosis — the effect of overexposure to the sun
- helipads — Plural form of helipad.
- heliport — a landing place for helicopters, often on the roof of a building or in some other limited area.
- helistop — a heliport.