8-letter words containing h, a, d, e
- freehand — drawn or executed by hand without guiding instruments, measurements, or other aids: a freehand map.
- fuckhead — a stupid or obnoxious person.
- gadhelic — Also called Q-Celtic. the subbranch of Celtic in which the Proto-Indo-European kw -sound remained a velar. Irish and Scottish Gaelic belong to Goidelic.
- galoshed — Wearing galoshes.
- gathered — Simple past tense and past participle of gather.
- gearhead — A mechanical device used to increase the torque of gears.
- gedaliah — the governor of Judah after its conquest by Babylon. II Kings 25:22–26.
- gheraoed — Simple past tense and past participle of gherao.
- gilthead — any of several marine fishes having gold markings, as a sparid, Sparus auratus, of the Mediterranean Sea.
- go ahead — permission or a signal to proceed: They got the go-ahead on the construction work.
- go-ahead — permission or a signal to proceed: They got the go-ahead on the construction work.
- goatherd — a person who tends goats.
- godheads — Plural form of godhead.
- greyhead — a person with grey hair
- habitude — customary condition or character: a healthy mental habitude.
- hachured — one of a series of short parallel lines drawn on a map to indicate topographic relief.
- hacienda — a large landed estate, especially one used for farming or ranching.
- had best — should, would be wise to
- hadfield — Sir Robert Abbott, 1858–1940, English metallurgist and industrialist.
- hagrider — a person or thing that causes distressing anxiety or apprehension
- hagrides — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hagride.
- hakodate — a seaport on S Hokkaido, in N Japan.
- halberds — Plural form of halberd.
- halidome — a holy place, as a church or sanctuary.
- hallooed — Simple past tense and past participle of halloo.
- hallowed — regarded as holy; venerated; sacred: Hallowed be Thy name; the hallowed saints; our hallowed political institutions.
- haltered — Simple past tense and past participle of halter.
- hammered — shaped, formed, or ornamented by a metalworker's hammer: a hammered bowl of brass; hammered gold.
- hampered — Hinder or impede the movement or progress of.
- handbell — a small handheld bell, especially as part of a tuned set having different notes or pitches and played by a group.
- handedly — (nonstandard) Easily; with ease.
- handfeed — Agriculture. to feed (animals) with apportioned amounts at regular intervals. Compare self-feed.
- handheld — held in the hand or hands: a handheld torch.
- handiest — superlative form of handy: most handy.
- handlers — Plural form of handler.
- handless — without a hand or hands.
- handlike — Resembling a hand.
- handmade — made by hand, rather than by machine: the luxury of handmade shoes.
- handover — the act of relinquishing property, authority, etc.: a handover of occupied territory.
- handsels — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of handsel.
- 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.
- harassed — stressed, tormented
- harbored — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.