8-letter words containing h, a, e, m
- haemato- — indicating blood
- haeremai — a Māori expression of welcome
- 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.
- hame tug — a loop or short leather strap attaching a trace to a hame.
- hamerkop — Alternative spelling of hammerkop.
- hamewith — in a homewards manner
- hammered — shaped, formed, or ornamented by a metalworker's hammer: a hammered bowl of brass; hammered gold.
- hammerer — One who hammers.
- hampered — Hinder or impede the movement or progress of.
- hampster — Alternative form of hamster.
- hamsters — Plural form of hamster.
- hamulate — Furnished with a small hook; hook-shaped.
- handmade — made by hand, rather than by machine: the luxury of handmade shoes.
- handsome — having an attractive, well-proportioned, and imposing appearance suggestive of health and strength; good-looking: a handsome man; a handsome woman.
- handymen — Plural form of handyman.
- harambee — a work chant used on the E African coast
- harmable — Susceptible to harm.
- harmless — without the power or desire to do harm; innocuous: He looks mean but he's harmless; a harmless Halloween prank.
- hatmaker — a maker of hats
- haymaker — a person or machine that cuts hay and spreads it to dry.
- headlamp — headlight.
- headmark — a characteristic
- headmost — most advanced; foremost.
- headroom — Nautical. the clear space between two decks.
- headsman — a public executioner who beheads condemned persons.
- headsmen — Plural form of headsman.
- heat map — a graphical representation of data in which a spectrum of colours is used to represent the different values
- hebdomad — the number seven.
- hebraism — an expression or construction distinctive of the Hebrew language.
- hecatomb — (in ancient Greece and Rome) a public sacrifice of 100 oxen to the gods.
- heimdall — the god of dawn and light.
- helmsman — a person who steers a ship.
- helpmann — Sir Robert (Murray) 1909–86, Australian dancer, choreographer, and actor.
- helpmate — a companion and helper.
- hematein — a reddish-brown, crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 16 H 12 O 6 , obtained from logwood: used chiefly as a stain in microscopy.
- hematine — Biochemistry. heme.
- hematite — a very common mineral, iron oxide, Fe 2 O 3 , occurring in steel-gray to black crystals and in red earthy masses: the principal ore of iron.
- hematoid — hemoid.
- hematoma — a circumscribed collection of blood, usually clotted, in a tissue or organ, caused by a break in a blood vessel.
- hemiolas — Plural form of hemiola.
- hemiopia — hemianopsia.
- hemogram — a graphic record of the cellular elements of the blood.
- hemostat — an instrument or agent used to compress or treat bleeding vessels in order to arrest hemorrhage.
- henchman — an unscrupulous and ruthless subordinate, especially a criminal: The leader of the gang went everywhere accompanied by his henchmen.
- hepatoma — a tumor of the liver.
- herdsman — a herder; the keeper of a herd, especially of cattle or sheep.
- hermaean — denoting or relating to a herm
- herrmann — Bernard, 1911–75, U.S. conductor and composer.
- hetarism — Alternative form of hetaerism.