8-letter words containing h, e, l, n
- 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.
- holiness — the quality or state of being holy; sanctity.
- hollande — François (frɑ̃swa). born 1954, French socialist politician, president of France (2012–17)
- holocene — recent (def 4).
- holstein — Also called Holstein-Friesian [hohl-stahyn-free-zhuh n, -steen-] /ˈhoʊl staɪnˈfri ʒən, -stin-/ (Show IPA). one of a breed of black-and-white dairy cattle, raised originally in North Holland and Friesland, that yields large quantities of milk having a low content of butterfat.
- holy one — God. Isa. 10:20.
- holyness — Alternative spelling of holiness.
- homeland — one's native land.
- honestly — in an honest manner.
- honeyful — full of honey
- hornfels — a dark, fine-grained metamorphic rock, the result of recrystallization of siliceous or argillaceous sediments by contact metamorphism.
- horngeld — a feudal tax levied on horned cattle
- hornless — one of the bony, permanent, hollow paired growths, often curved and pointed, that project from the upper part of the head of certain ungulate mammals, as cattle, sheep, goats, or antelopes.
- hornlike — Projecting like a horn.
- 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.
- hotelman — hotelkeeper.
- hotliner — a person who speaks to callers on a telephone hot line.
- hotlines — Plural form of hotline.
- hov lane — a highway or street lane for high-occupancy vehicles, usually marked with large diamond shapes on the pavement.
- humanely — characterized by tenderness, compassion, and sympathy for people and animals, especially for the suffering or distressed: humane treatment of prisoners.
- hungerly — marked by a hungry look.
- huntable — capable of being hunted
- huxleian — of, relating to, or characteristic or suggestive of Aldous Huxley or his writings.
- huxleyan — of, relating to, or characteristic or suggestive of Aldous Huxley or his writings.
- hyalogen — any of several insoluble substances found in many animal structures such as cartilage which yield sugars on hydrolysis structures
- hymeneal — of or relating to marriage.
- hymenial — relating to the layer of certain fungi which bears spores, composed of asci or basidia
- hymnless — having no hymn
- hymnlike — Resembling a hymn in form or sound.
- hytelnet — (networking) A hypertext database of publicly accessible Internet sites created and maintained by Peter Scott <[email protected]>. Hytelnet currently lists over 1400 sites, including Libraries, Campus-Wide Information Systems, Gopher, WAIS, WWW and Freenets. Hytelnet software is available for the IBM PC, Macintosh, Unix and VMS systems. Mailing list: [email protected] (no subject, body: subscribe hytelnet FirstName LastName).
- in holes — so worn as to be full of holes
- inchmeal — by inches; inch by inch; little by little.
- inhalers — Plural form of inhaler.
- 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.
- kathleen — a female given name, form of Katherine.
- kelthane — a pesticide sprayed on agricultural and ornamental plants to eliminate mites
- kephalin — Alternative spelling of cephalin.
- kienholz — Edward, 1927–1994, U.S. painter.
- kneehole — an open space for the knees and legs, as under a desk.
- knothole — a hole in a board or plank formed by the falling out of a knot or a portion of a knot.
- landwehr — (in Germany, Austria, etc.) the part of the organized military forces of a nation that has completed a certain amount of compulsory training, and whose continuous service is required only in time of war.
- launched — to set (a boat or ship) in the water.
- launcher — a person or thing that launches.
- launches — Plural form of launch.
- leaching — to dissolve out soluble constituents from (ashes, soil, etc.) by percolation.
- leathern — made of leather.