8-letter words containing h, i, k, e
- herkimer — Nicholas, 1728–77, American Revolutionary general.
- herolike — Resembling or characteristic of a hero; heroic.
- hezekiah — a king of Judah of the 7th and 8th centuries b.c. II Kings 18.
- hicksite — a member of the liberal body of Quakers in the U.S., who asserted the sufficiency of the Inner Light in religious life.
- high-key — (of a photograph) having chiefly light tones, usually with little tonal contrast (distinguished from low-key).
- hijacked — Illegally seize (an aircraft, ship, or vehicle) in transit and force it to go to a different destination or use it for one's own purposes.
- hijacker — a person who hijacks.
- hike out — to lean backwards over the side of a light sailing boat in order to carry the centre of gravity as far to windward as possible to reduce heeling
- hinckley — a town in central England, in Leicestershire. Pop: 43 246 (2001)
- hocktide — a former festival celebrated on the second Monday and Tuesday after Easter
- hokiness — The state or condition of being hoky.
- homelike — like or suggestive of home; familiar; warmly comfortable.
- homesick — sad or depressed from a longing for home or family while away from them for a long time.
- hoodlike — Resembling a hood.
- hooklike — Resembling a hook.
- hooplike — Resembling a hoop.
- hornlike — Projecting like a horn.
- hoselike — resembling a hose
- hymnlike — Resembling a hymn in form or sound.
- icekhana — an auto-racing competition testing driving skills on a frozen lake.
- in check — to stop or arrest the motion of suddenly or forcibly: He checked the horse at the edge of the cliff.
- kaffiyeh — an Arab headdress for men; made from a diagonally folded square of cloth held in place by an agal wound around the head.
- keffiyeh — an Arab headdress for men; made from a diagonally folded square of cloth held in place by an agal wound around the head.
- kehillah — the organization of the Jewish population of a community that deals with charities and other communal affairs.
- keighley — a town in N England, in Bradford unitary authority, West Yorkshire, on the River Aire: textile industry. Pop: 49 453 (2001)
- kelpfish — any of several blennies that are common among kelp. Compare kelp greenling.
- kephalin — Alternative spelling of cephalin.
- kerchief — a woman's square scarf worn as a covering for the head or sometimes the shoulders.
- kerching — (onomatopoeia, informal, humorous) Said to indicate that someone is obtaining money, especially a comparatively large amount.
- ketching — Present participle of ketch.
- keychain — A chain or ring to which a key may be attached.
- khamenei — Ayatollah Mohammed Ali, born 1939, chief Islamic leader of Iran since 1989.
- khomeini — Ayatollah Ruhollah [roo-hoh-luh;; Persian roo-haw-lah] /ruˈhoʊ lə;; Persian ˌru hɔˈlɑ/ (Show IPA), 1900?–89, Islamic leader of Iran 1979–89.
- kiboshed — Simple past tense and past participle of kibosh.
- kienholz — Edward, 1927–1994, U.S. painter.
- kineshma — a city in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, NW of Nizhni Novgorod.
- kirchner — Ernst Ludwig, 1880–1938, German expressionist artist.
- kishinev — a region in NE Romania: formerly a principality that united with Wallachia to form Romania. Capital: Jassy.
- kitchens — Plural form of kitchen.
- kithless — (obsolete) Not knowing anyone; having no acquaintances or family.
- klephtic — (historical) Relating to the klephts.
- knighted — a mounted soldier serving under a feudal superior in the Middle Ages.
- knitteth — Archaic third-person singular form of knit.
- kweichow — Guizhou.
- lathlike — Resembling a lath or some aspect of one.
- lifehack — Informal. a tip, trick, or efficient method for doing or managing a day-to-day task or activity; a hack: a lifehack for overcoming social anxiety; a computer programmer's best lifehacks.
- likehood — (obsolete) likelihood.
- methinks — It seems to me.
- milkshed — a region producing milk for a specific community: the St. Louis milkshed.
- mothlike — Resembling a moth or some aspect of one.