8-letter words containing h, i, e
- 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
- honestie — Archaic spelling of honesty.
- honeying — Present participle of honey.
- hoochies — a thatched hut of southeast Asia.
- hoodlike — Resembling a hood.
- hooklike — Resembling a hook.
- hooplike — Resembling a hoop.
- hopfield — a field in which hops are grown
- hoplites — Plural form of hoplite.
- hormesis — Stimulation by the use of a low concentration of a toxin.
- hormetic — of or relating to hormesis
- hornlike — Projecting like a horn.
- hornpipe — an English folk clarinet having one ox horn concealing the reed and another forming the bell.
- horrible — causing or tending to cause horror; shockingly dreadful: a horrible sight.
- hoselike — resembling a hose
- hosepipe — (UK, South Africa, Southern US) A flexible pipe for carrying water or other liquids; a garden hose.
- hospices — Plural form of hospice.
- 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.
- hot-wire — Slang. to start the engine of (a motor vehicle) by short-circuiting the ignition.
- 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.
- hotwired — Simple past tense and past participle of hotwire.
- hourlies — Plural form of hourly.
- housesit — to take care of a house or residence while the owner or occupant is temporarily away, especially by living in it.
- hovering — Present participle of hover.
- howitzer — a cannon having a comparatively short barrel, used especially for firing shells at a high angle of elevation, as for reaching a target behind cover or in a trench.
- 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.
- huisache — a tropical and subtropical New World shrub, Acacia farnesiana, of the legume family, having clusters of fragrant, deep-yellow flower heads.
- huissier — an usher
- 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.
- hungrier — having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger.
- huxleian — of, relating to, or characteristic or suggestive of Aldous Huxley or his writings.
- hydremia — the state of having an excess of water in the blood.
- hydrides — Plural form of hydride.
- hygenist — Alternative spelling of hygienist.