8-letter words containing h, e, i, m
- hempvine — Any plant of the genus Mikania.
- herkimer — Nicholas, 1728–77, American Revolutionary general.
- hermetic — made airtight by fusion or sealing.
- hermione — the daughter of Menelaus and Helen.
- hermitic — a person who has withdrawn to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion.
- hermitry — a person who has withdrawn to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion.
- hetarism — Alternative form of hetaerism.
- 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.
- hexomino — (geometry) A polyomino made up of six squares.
- hielaman — an Australian Aboriginal shield
- hielamon — a shield made of wood or bark.
- himselfe — Obsolete spelling of himself.
- hivemind — the property of apparent sentience in a colony of social insects acting as a single organism, each insect performing a specific role for the good of the group.
- homebird — a person who is reluctant to leave their hometown or their childhood home, or who returns after a period of living away
- homegirl — a girl or woman from the same locality as oneself.
- homelier — Comparative form of homely.
- homelike — like or suggestive of home; familiar; warmly comfortable.
- homelily — in a homely manner
- homeosis — The replacement of part of one segment of an insect or other segmented animal by a structure characteristic of a different segment, especially through mutation.
- homeotic — Of or pertaining to homeosis.
- homering — Present participle of homer.
- homesick — sad or depressed from a longing for home or family while away from them for a long time.
- homesite — a plot of land for a home.
- hometime — The time when pupils go home at the end of the school day.
- homicide — the killing of one human being by another.
- homilies — Plural form of homily.
- hominess — comfortably informal and inviting; cozy; homelike: a homey little inn.
- hominine — resembling or characteristic of humans.
- hominize — to make something characteristically human or suitable for humans
- hormesis — Stimulation by the use of a low concentration of a toxin.
- hormetic — of or relating to hormesis
- 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.
- humanise — to make humane, kind, or gentle.
- humanize — to make humane, kind, or gentle.
- humicole — any plant that thrives on humus
- humified — transformed into humus.
- humiture — a measure of the discomfort most people feel because of the combined effects of atmospheric temperature and humidity; variously defined as Fahrenheit temperature plus some function of vapor pressure.
- hydremia — the state of having an excess of water in the blood.
- hymenial — relating to the layer of certain fungi which bears spores, composed of asci or basidia
- hymenium — the sporogenous layer in a fungus, composed of asci or basidia often interspersed with various sterile structures, as paraphyses.
- hymnlike — Resembling a hymn in form or sound.
- 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)
- immeshed — enmesh.
- impleach — to intertwine
- inchmeal — by inches; inch by inch; little by little.
- inhumane — not humane; lacking humanity, kindness, compassion, etc.
- inhumate — to bury; inhume
- inmeshed — Simple past tense and past participle of inmesh.
- inmeshes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inmesh.