8-letter words containing h, a, e, m
- hexagram — a six-pointed starlike figure formed of two equilateral triangles placed concentrically with each side of a triangle parallel to a side of the other and on opposite sides of the center.
- hexamine — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 6 H 12 N 4 , used as a vulcanization accelerator, an absorbent in gas masks, in the manufacture of the explosive RDX and synthetic resins, and in medicine as a diuretic and urinary antiseptic.
- hielaman — an Australian Aboriginal shield
- hielamon — a shield made of wood or bark.
- homecare — The care and maintenance of one's home.
- homeland — one's native land.
- homemade — made or prepared at home, locally, or by the maker's own efforts: The restaurant's pastry is homemade. Breakfast at the farmhouse always meant homemade preserves.
- homepage — Alternative form of home page.
- homestay — housing accommodations in a home with a family in residence, as for a student or traveler: Foreign-exchange students can choose between a homestay or campus dormitory.
- homeward — Also, homewards. toward home.
- homeware — crockery, furniture, and furnishings with which a house, room, etc, is furnished
- hornbeam — any North American shrub or tree belonging to the genus Carpinus, of the birch family, yielding a hard, heavy wood, as C. caroliniana (American hornbeam)
- horseman — a person who is skilled in riding a horse.
- hostname — (computing) the unique name by which any device attached to a network is known.
- hotelman — hotelkeeper.
- houseman — a male servant who performs general duties in a home, hotel, etc.
- hreidmar — (in the Volsunga Saga) the father of Fafnir, Otter, and Regin. He demanded wergild from the gods for killing Otter, and was killed by Fafnir when he got it.
- hs&e — HS&E relates to guidelines for the safe and clean operation of industrial processes.
- humanely — characterized by tenderness, compassion, and sympathy for people and animals, especially for the suffering or distressed: humane treatment of prisoners.
- humanise — to make humane, kind, or gentle.
- humanize — to make humane, kind, or gentle.
- hummable — (of a piece of music) able to be hummed easily; melodic; tuneful.
- hydremia — the state of having an excess of water in the blood.
- hymeneal — of or relating to marriage.
- hymenean — A hymn, song or poem in honour of a wedding; a hymeneal.
- hymenial — relating to the layer of certain fungi which bears spores, composed of asci or basidia
- hyphemia — bleeding inside the eye caused by ruptured blood vessels
- ihimaera — Witi (ˈwɪtɪ), full name Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler. born 1944, New Zealand Māori novelist and short-story writer; his novels include The Whale Rider (1987) and The Uncle's Story (2002)
- impleach — to intertwine
- inchmeal — by inches; inch by inch; little by little.
- inhumane — not humane; lacking humanity, kindness, compassion, etc.
- inhumate — to bury; inhume
- ischemia — local deficiency of blood supply produced by vasoconstriction or local obstacles to the arterial flow.
- jeremiah — a Major Prophet of the 6th and 7th centuries b.c.
- keysmash — a random string of letters and symbols typed out on a keyboard or touchscreen, used to signal intense emotion in written communication: The photo of the actor was accompanied by a heartfelt keysmash.
- khamenei — Ayatollah Mohammed Ali, born 1939, chief Islamic leader of Iran since 1989.
- khamseen — Alternative spelling of khamsin.
- kineshma — a city in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, NW of Nizhni Novgorod.
- lechayim — a toast used in drinking to a person's health or well-being.
- lewisham — a borough of Greater London, England.
- limewash — A mixture of slaked lime in water.
- lithemia — the presence of an excessive amount of uric acid in the blood.
- lumachel — (mineralogy) A grey form of limestone that contains fossil shells, and reflects a fiery play of colours.
- machetes — Plural form of machete.
- machined — Simple past tense and past participle of machine.
- machiner — One who operates a machine.
- machines — Plural form of machine.
- macleish — Archibald, 1892–1982, U.S. poet and dramatist.
- madhouse — a hospital for the confinement and treatment of mentally disturbed persons.
- maebashi — a city in the central part of Honshu, in central Japan.