8-letter words containing h, e, a, l, i
- gilthead — any of several marine fishes having gold markings, as a sparid, Sparus auratus, of the Mediterranean Sea.
- hadfield — Sir Robert Abbott, 1858–1940, English metallurgist and industrialist.
- hair gel — a jelly-like substance applied to the hair before styling in order to retain the shape of the style
- hairless — without hair; bald: his pink hairless pate.
- hairlike — any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
- hairline — a very slender line.
- half-lie — something that a person says or writes that they know to be partly untrue
- half-pie — poorly planned or conceived
- halflife — Alternative spelling of half-life.
- halfpipe — Alternative form of half-pipe.
- 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.
- halolike — resembling a halo.
- handlike — Resembling a hand.
- hardline — an uncompromising or unyielding stand, especially in politics.
- harelips — Plural form of harelip.
- hartline — Haldan Keffer [hawl-duh n kef-er] /ˈhɔl dən ˈkɛf ər/ (Show IPA), 1903–83, U.S. physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1967.
- hatfield — a town in central Hertfordshire, in SE England: incorporated into (Welwyn Hatfield) 1974.
- hauliers — Plural form of haulier.
- hawklike — any of numerous birds of prey of the family Accipitridae, having a short, hooked beak, broad wings, and curved talons, often seen circling or swooping at low altitudes.
- hayfield — a field where grass, alfalfa, etc., are grown for making into hay.
- headlice — Alternative form of head lice.
- headlike — Having the form of a head or a skull.
- headline — a heading in a newspaper for any written material, sometimes for an illustration, to indicate subject matter, set in larger type than that of the copy and containing one or more words and lines and often several banks.
- headling — (obsolete) An equal; a fellow; mate.
- headrail — a railing on a sailing vessel, extending forward from abaft the bow to the back of the figurehead.
- headsail — any of various jibs or staysails set forward of the foremost mast of a vessel.
- heartily — in a hearty manner; cordially: He was greeted heartily.
- hegelian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Hegel or his philosophical system.
- heimdall — the god of dawn and light.
- heliacal — pertaining to or occurring near the sun, especially applied to such risings and settings of a star as are most nearly coincident with those of the sun while yet visible.
- helicase — any of the enzymes that use the energy derived from the hydrolysis of nucleoside triphosphates to unwind the double-stranded helical structure of nucleic acids: RNA and DNA helicases.
- helipads — Plural form of helipad.
- helladic — of or relating to the Bronze Age culture on the mainland of ancient Greece c2900–1100 b.c.
- hellicat — an evil creature
- helvetia — an Alpine region in Roman times, corresponding to the W and N parts of Switzerland.
- hemiolas — Plural form of hemiola.
- heraclid — a person claiming descent from Hercules, especially one of the Dorian aristocracy of Sparta.
- heraklit — (language) A distributed object-oriented language.
- heraldic — of, relating to, or characteristic of heralds or heraldry: heraldic form; heraldic images; heraldic history; a heraldic device.
- hexafoil — a pattern with six lobes around a regular hexagon
- hibernal — of or relating to winter; wintry.
- hielaman — an Australian Aboriginal shield
- hielamon — a shield made of wood or bark.
- hinsdale — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- hireable — able to be hired; fit for hiring.
- hittable — (of a ball or pitch) capable of being hit
- huxleian — of, relating to, or characteristic or suggestive of Aldous Huxley or his writings.
- hymenial — relating to the layer of certain fungi which bears spores, composed of asci or basidia
- impleach — to intertwine