8-letter words containing h, e, l, g
- headling — (obsolete) An equal; a fellow; mate.
- headlong — with the head foremost; headfirst: to plunge headlong into the water.
- heckling — to harass (a public speaker, performer, etc.) with impertinent questions, gibes, or the like; badger.
- hegelian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Hegel or his philosophical system.
- 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.
- helpings — Plural form of helping.
- hexaglot — a book written in six languages
- hexalogy — A set of six works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as six individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
- highhole — flicker2 .
- highlife — an expensive, glamorous, or elegant style of living.
- highline — kicker (def 9).
- highlite — Misspelling of highlight.
- highveld — Alternative case form of Highveld.
- hindlegs — Plural form of hindleg.
- hireling — a person who works only for pay, especially in a menial or boring job, with little or no concern for the value of the work.
- hl hinge — a surface-mounted hinge that when applied resembles H and L combined.
- hla gene — any of a complex of genes, located on human chromosome 6, that govern the expression of HLA.
- hock leg — a leg similar to a cabriole leg, but having a straight perpendicular section between the upper, convex section and the foot.
- hog fuel — wood chips or shavings, residue from sawmills, etc., used for fuel, landfill, animal feed, and surfacing paths and running tracks.
- hoggerel — a sheep in its second or third year
- holliger — Heinz (haints). born 1939, Swiss oboist and composer
- homegirl — a girl or woman from the same locality as oneself.
- horngeld — a feudal tax levied on horned cattle
- horologe — any instrument for indicating the time, especially a sundial or an early form of clock.
- huggable — evoking a desire to hug close; inviting a close embrace; cuddly: a huggable little baby.
- hungerly — marked by a hungry look.
- hyalogen — any of several insoluble substances found in many animal structures such as cartilage which yield sugars on hydrolysis structures
- hydrogel — a gel whose liquid constituent is water.
- hypergol — any hypergolic agent.
- hypogeal — underground; subterranean.
- keighley — a town in N England, in Bradford unitary authority, West Yorkshire, on the River Aire: textile industry. Pop: 49 453 (2001)
- la hague — Cape, a cape in NW France, in the English Channel near Cherbourg: the NW extremity of the Cotentin Peninsula.
- la hogue — La [la] /la/ (Show IPA), La Hogue.
- laughers — Plural form of laugher.
- laugheth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'laugh'.
- laughter — the action or sound of laughing.
- leaching — to dissolve out soluble constituents from (ashes, soil, etc.) by percolation.
- leeching — any bloodsucking or carnivorous aquatic or terrestrial worm of the class Hirudinea, certain freshwater species of which were formerly much used in medicine for bloodletting.
- leghorns — Plural form of leghorn.
- leighton — Frederick (Baron Leighton of Stretton) 1830–96, English painter and sculptor.
- lengthen — to make longer; make greater in length.
- lengthly — Misspelled form of lengthy.
- lesghian — Lezghian.
- letching — a lecherous desire or craving.
- lethargy — the quality or state of being drowsy and dull, listless and unenergetic, or indifferent and lazy; apathetic or sluggish inactivity.
- lezghian — a member of a people living mainly in the Dagestan Autonomous Republic in the Russian Federation.
- lichgate — Alternative spelling of lych-gate.
- lightens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lighten.
- lighters — Plural form of lighter.
- lightest — a light product, as a beer or cigarette.