8-letter words containing h, e, l, i, o
- hopfield — a field in which hops are grown
- hoplites — Plural form of hoplite.
- hornlike — Projecting like a horn.
- horrible — causing or tending to cause horror; shockingly dreadful: a horrible sight.
- hoselike — resembling a hose
- hostiles — Plural form of hostile.
- hot line — a direct telecommunications link, as a telephone line or Teletype circuit, enabling immediate communication between heads of state in an international crisis: the hot line between Washington and Moscow.
- hotelier — a manager or owner of a hotel or inn.
- hotliner — a person who speaks to callers on a telephone hot line.
- hotlines — Plural form of hotline.
- hourlies — Plural form of hourly.
- humicole — any plant that thrives on humus
- in holes — so worn as to be full of holes
- inholder — An indweller, or anything indwelling; inhabitant; occupant.
- iolanthe — an operetta (1882) by Sir William S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan.
- iserlohn — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia,W Germany.
- isopleth — a line drawn on a map through all points having the same numerical value, as of a population figure or geographic measurement.
- kienholz — Edward, 1927–1994, U.S. painter.
- leighton — Frederick (Baron Leighton of Stretton) 1830–96, English painter and sculptor.
- lewisohn — Ludwig [luhd-wig] /ˈlʌd wɪg/ (Show IPA), 1882?–1955, U.S. novelist and critic, born in Germany.
- lifehold — Land held by a life estate.
- likehood — (obsolete) likelihood.
- lionhead — a small breed of rabbit with long fur around the face
- loveship — The act of falling in or making love; courtship.
- melchior — one of the three Magi.
- molehill — a small mound or ridge of earth raised up by a mole or moles burrowing under the ground.
- mothlike — Resembling a moth or some aspect of one.
- novelish — (esp of a name or a person) characteristic of a novel; having qualities like those of a character or scene in a novel; fanciful; romantic
- ochlesis — any disease caused by overcrowding.
- othoniel — Othniel.
- phelloid — having a resemblance to cork
- phenolic — Also called carbolic acid, hydroxybenzene, oxybenzene, phenylic acid. a white, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous mass, C 6 H 5 OH, obtained from coal tar, or a hydroxyl derivative of benzene: used chiefly as a disinfectant, as an antiseptic, and in organic synthesis.
- philemon — an Epistle written by Paul. Abbreviation: Phil.
- philomel — the nightingale.
- phleboid — pertaining to or resembling a vein.
- pie-hole — a person's mouth
- pin-hole — a small hole made by or as by a pin.
- pinochle — a popular card game played by two, three, or four persons, with a 48-card deck.
- polished — made smooth and glossy: a figurine of polished mahogany.
- polisher — to make smooth and glossy, especially by rubbing or friction: to polish a brass doorknob.
- regolith — mantle rock.
- reinhold — a male given name.
- repolish — a repolishing, the action of polishing again
- rheophil — (of organisms) liking flowing water
- rhyolite — a fine-grained igneous rock rich in silica: the volcanic equivalent of granite.
- rolliche — roulade (def 2).
- schoolie — a fish that swims within a school.
- selihoth — (used with a plural verb) liturgical prayers serving as expressions of repentance and pleas for God's forgiveness, recited by Jews during the period, usually beginning the preceding week, before Rosh Hashanah, during the period between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, and on fast days.
- shoebill — a large, African, storklike bird, Balaeniceps rex, having a broad, flattened bill shaped somewhat like a shoe.
- sinkhole — a hole formed in soluble rock by the action of water, serving to conduct surface water to an underground passage.