8-letter words containing g, e, h, l
- litharge — a yellowish or reddish, odorless, heavy, earthy, water-insoluble, poisonous solid, PbO, used chiefly in the manufacture of storage batteries, pottery, lead glass, paints, enamels, and inks.
- logperch — a darter, Percina caprodes, of eastern North American lakes and streams, having a piglike snout.
- longhead — a dolichocephalic person.
- lugholes — Plural form of lughole.
- lychgate — A roofed gateway to a churchyard, formerly used during burials for sheltering a coffin until the clergyman’s arrival.
- megalith — a stone of great size, especially in ancient construction work, as the Cyclopean masonry, or in prehistoric Neolithic remains, as dolmens or menhirs.
- megillah — Slang. a lengthy, detailed explanation or account: Just give me the facts, not the whole megillah. a lengthy and tediously complicated situation or matter.
- narghile — a Middle Eastern tobacco pipe in which the smoke is drawn through water before reaching the lips; hookah.
- nargileh — Alternative form of narghile.
- penlight — a flashlight similar in size and shape to a fountain pen.
- phalange — a phalanx.
- philabeg — filibeg.
- philibeg — the kilt or pleated skirt worn by Scottish Highlanders.
- phlegmon — a swollen, red, and painful mass affecting bodily tissue that may progress to abscess
- plighted — to pledge (one's troth) in engagement to marry.
- plughole — drainage hole in sink or bath
- ragwheel — a chain or sprocket wheel
- rayleigh — John William Strutt [struht] /strʌt/ (Show IPA), 3rd Baron, 1842–1919, English physicist: Nobel prize 1904.
- redlight — a red lamp, used as a traffic signal to mean “stop.”.
- regolith — mantle rock.
- replough — to plough again
- rheology — the study of the deformation and flow of matter.
- roughleg — any of several kinds of large hawk with feathered legs
- rugelach — a fruit-and-nut pastry shaped like a croissant
- schlager — a type of European popular music focusing on love and feelings
- schlegel — August Wilhelm von [ou-goo st vil-helm fuh n] /ˈaʊ gʊst ˈvɪl hɛlm fən/ (Show IPA), 1767–1845, German poet, critic, and translator.
- shagpile — (of a carpet or rug) having long, rough fibres
- shealing — a pasture or grazing ground.
- sheerleg — one of the spars of a sheerlegs
- shelling — act of removing shell
- shelving — material for shelves.
- shieling — a pasture or grazing ground.
- shigella — any of several rod-shaped aerobic bacteria of the genus Shigella, certain species of which are pathogenic for humans and other warm-blooded animals.
- shingled — a thin piece of wood, slate, metal, asbestos, or the like, usually oblong, laid in overlapping rows to cover the roofs and walls of buildings.
- shingles — small, waterworn stones or pebbles such as lie in loose sheets or beds on a beach.
- sighless — without uttering a sigh
- sighlike — resembling a sigh
- slighted — small in amount, degree, etc.: a slight increase; a slight odor.
- sloughed — the outer layer of the skin of a snake, which is cast off periodically.
- tealight — small candle floated in water
- teiglach — a confection consisting of small balls of dough boiled in a syrup of honey, sugar, and spices.
- thalberg — Irving (Grant) 1899–1936, U.S. motion-picture producer.
- the flag — (in Victoria, Australia) the Australian Rules premiership
- the gulf — the Persian Gulf or the surrounding region
- theology — the field of study and analysis that treats of God and of God's attributes and relations to the universe; study of divine things or religious truth; divinity.
- therblig — (in time and motion study) any of the basic elements involved in completing a given manual operation or task that can be subjected to analysis.
- thirlage — an obligation imposed upon tenants of certain lands requiring them to have their grain ground at a specified mill
- welching — welsh.
- welshing — Present participle of welsh.
- wheeling — a circular frame or disk arranged to revolve on an axis, as on or in vehicles or machinery.