8-letter words containing h, e, a, l
- halflife — Alternative spelling of half-life.
- halfness — The quality of being half; incompleteness.
- halfpace — (archaic, architecture) A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight.
- 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.
- halftone — Also called middle-tone. (in painting, drawing, graphics, photography, etc.) a value intermediate between light and dark.
- 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.
- halluces — the first or innermost digit of the foot of humans and other primates or of the hind foot of other mammals; great toe; big toe.
- halogens — Plural form of halogen.
- halolike — resembling a halo.
- halosere — a plant community that originates and develops in conditions of high salinity
- haltered — Simple past tense and past participle of halter.
- halteres — Plural form of haltere.
- haltless — without stopping
- hamulate — Furnished with a small hook; hook-shaped.
- 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.
- handheld — held in the hand or hands: a handheld torch.
- handlers — Plural form of handler.
- handless — without a hand or hands.
- handlike — Resembling a hand.
- handsels — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of handsel.
- hangable — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hardline — an uncompromising or unyielding stand, especially in politics.
- harebell — a low plant, Campanula rotundifolia, of the bellflower family, having narrow leaves and blue, bell-shaped flowers.
- harelips — Plural form of harelip.
- harfleur — a port in N France, in Seine-Maritime department: important centre in the Middle Ages. Pop: 8602 (2005)
- 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.
- hartline — Haldan Keffer [hawl-duh n kef-er] /ˈhɔl dən ˈkɛf ər/ (Show IPA), 1903–83, U.S. physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1967.
- hartnell — Sir Norman. 1901–79, English couturier
- hasteful — swiftness of motion; speed; celerity: He performed his task with great haste. They felt the need for haste.
- hatchels — Plural form of hatchel.
- hateable — meriting hatred or loathing.
- hatefull — Obsolete form of hateful.
- hateless — without feelings of hatred
- hatfield — a town in central Hertfordshire, in SE England: incorporated into (Welwyn Hatfield) 1974.
- haulable — Capable of being hauled.
- hauliers — Plural form of haulier.
- havelock — a town in SE North Carolina.
- hawkbell — a small bell fitted to a hawk's leg
- 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.
- hay bale — block of dried grass
- hayfield — a field where grass, alfalfa, etc., are grown for making into hay.
- hazelhen — a European woodland grouse, Tetrastes bonasia, somewhat resembling the North American ruffed grouse.
- hazelnut — the nut of the hazel; filbert.
- hazlenut — Misspelling of hazelnut.
- hazleton — a city in E Pennsylvania.