8-letter words containing h, e, a, l
- head lad — a man who is in charge of a racing stable
- headedly — (in combination) In the specified headed manner.
- headlamp — headlight.
- headland — a promontory extending into a large body of water.
- headless — without a head.
- 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.
- headlock — a hold in which a wrestler locks an arm around the opponent's head.
- headlong — with the head foremost; headfirst: to plunge headlong into the water.
- 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.
- headwall — a cliff or steep slope rising at one end of a glaciated valley.
- heal-all — the selfheal, Prunella vulgaris.
- healable — Receptive to treatment or cure.
- hearable — to perceive by the ear: Didn't you hear the doorbell?
- heartful — An amount of emotion considered to be present in the heart.
- heartily — in a hearty manner; cordially: He was greeted heartily.
- heartlet — a little heart
- heatable — Capable of being heated.
- heatedly — made hot or hotter; warmed.
- heatless — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
- heavenly — of or in the heavens: the heavenly bodies.
- heel-tap — a layer of leather, metal, or the like in a shoe heel; a lift.
- heelball — a substance composed of lampblack and wax used for making rubbings or for polishing shoes.
- heeltaps — Plural form of heeltap.
- 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
- hellward — towards hell
- helmsman — a person who steers a ship.
- helotage — a member of the lowest class in ancient Laconia, constituting a body of serfs who were bound to the land and were owned by the state. Compare Perioeci, Spartiate.
- helpable — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
- helpmann — Sir Robert (Murray) 1909–86, Australian dancer, choreographer, and actor.
- helpmate — a companion and helper.
- helvetia — an Alpine region in Roman times, corresponding to the W and N parts of Switzerland.
- hemiolas — Plural form of hemiola.
- heraclea — an ancient city in S Italy, near the Gulf of Taranto: Roman defeat 280 b.c.
- heracles — Hercules (def 1).
- heraclid — a person claiming descent from Hercules, especially one of the Dorian aristocracy of Sparta.
- herakles — Hercules
- heraklit — (language) A distributed object-oriented language.
- heralded — (formerly) a royal or official messenger, especially one representing a monarch in an ambassadorial capacity during wartime.
- heraldic — of, relating to, or characteristic of heralds or heraldry: heraldic form; heraldic images; heraldic history; a heraldic device.
- heraldry — the science of armorial bearings.