8-letter words containing e, n, l, o
- holocene — recent (def 4).
- holstein — Also called Holstein-Friesian [hohl-stahyn-free-zhuh n, -steen-] /ˈhoʊl staɪnˈfri ʒən, -stin-/ (Show IPA). one of a breed of black-and-white dairy cattle, raised originally in North Holland and Friesland, that yields large quantities of milk having a low content of butterfat.
- holy one — God. Isa. 10:20.
- holyness — Alternative spelling of holiness.
- homeland — one's native land.
- honestly — in an honest manner.
- honeyful — full of honey
- hornfels — a dark, fine-grained metamorphic rock, the result of recrystallization of siliceous or argillaceous sediments by contact metamorphism.
- horngeld — a feudal tax levied on horned cattle
- hornless — one of the bony, permanent, hollow paired growths, often curved and pointed, that project from the upper part of the head of certain ungulate mammals, as cattle, sheep, goats, or antelopes.
- hornlike — Projecting like a horn.
- hot line — a direct telecommunications link, as a telephone line or Teletype circuit, enabling immediate communication between heads of state in an international crisis: the hot line between Washington and Moscow.
- hotelman — hotelkeeper.
- hotliner — a person who speaks to callers on a telephone hot line.
- hotlines — Plural form of hotline.
- hov lane — a highway or street lane for high-occupancy vehicles, usually marked with large diamond shapes on the pavement.
- hyalogen — any of several insoluble substances found in many animal structures such as cartilage which yield sugars on hydrolysis structures
- ilkeston — a town in N central England, in SE Derbyshire. Pop: 37 270 (2001)
- imbolden — embolden.
- in holes — so worn as to be full of holes
- inclosed — enclose.
- incloser — Archaic form of encloser.
- incloses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inclose.
- indocile — not willing to receive teaching, training, or discipline; fractious; unruly.
- indolent — having or showing a disposition to avoid exertion; slothful: an indolent person.
- infolded — Simple past tense and past participle of infold.
- inholder — An indweller, or anything indwelling; inhabitant; occupant.
- inrolled — Incurved or rolled inwards.
- insolate — to expose to the sun's rays; treat by exposure to the sun's rays.
- insolent — boldly rude or disrespectful; contemptuously impertinent; insulting: an insolent reply.
- interpol — an official international agency that coordinates the police activities of more than 100 member nations: organized in 1923 with headquarters in Paris.
- involute — intricate; complex.
- involved — very intricate or complex: an involved reply.
- involver — Someone or something that involves.
- involves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of involve.
- iolanthe — an operetta (1882) by Sir William S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan.
- ironlike — Resembling iron or some aspect of it.
- iserlohn — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia,W Germany.
- isocline — a fold of strata so tightly compressed that both limbs dip in the same direction.
- isolines — Plural form of isoline.
- jalapeno — a hot green or orange-red pepper, the fruit of a variety of Capsicum annuum, used especially in Mexican cooking.
- jargonel — a type of pear that ripens early
- jelutong — a tree, Dyera costulata, of the Malay Peninsula, from which a resinous latex is obtained.
- joinable — That can be joined.
- joinvile — a seaport in S Brazil.
- jongleur — (in medieval France and Norman England) an itinerant minstrel or entertainer who sang songs, often of his own composition, and told stories.
- karoline — a female given name.
- keelsons — Plural form of keelson.
- kienholz — Edward, 1927–1994, U.S. painter.
- klondike — a region of the Yukon territory in NW Canada: gold rush 1897–98.