8-letter words containing h, o, l, e
- hornlike — Projecting like a horn.
- horologe — any instrument for indicating the time, especially a sundial or an early form of clock.
- horrible — causing or tending to cause horror; shockingly dreadful: a horrible sight.
- horsefly — any bloodsucking, usually large fly of the family Tabanidae, especially of the genus Tabanus, a serious pest of horses, cattle, etc.
- hoselike — resembling a hose
- hosteler — a person who operates a hostel.
- hostelry — an inn or hotel.
- hostiles — Plural form of hostile.
- hostlers — Plural form of hostler.
- hostless — a person who receives or entertains guests at home or elsewhere: the host at a theater party.
- hot cell — a protected enclosure, usually made of concrete, containing shielded windows and manipulators operated by remote control, used to handle radioactive materials, as for processing, testing, etc.
- 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 well — a tank or reservoir in which hot water is collected before being recirculated, especially condensed steam about to be returned to a boiler.
- hoteldom — The world or sphere of hotels.
- hotelier — a manager or owner of a hotel or inn.
- hotelman — hotelkeeper.
- hotliner — a person who speaks to callers on a telephone hot line.
- hotlines — Plural form of hotline.
- hotplate — a portable appliance for cooking, formerly heated by a gas burner placed underneath it, now heated chiefly by an electrical unit in the appliance.
- hourlies — Plural form of hourly.
- housefly — a medium-sized, gray-striped fly, Musca domestica, common around human habitations in nearly all parts of the world.
- houseful — as many as a house will accommodate: a houseful of weekend guests.
- hov lane — a highway or street lane for high-occupancy vehicles, usually marked with large diamond shapes on the pavement.
- hovelled — Simple past tense and past participle of hovel.
- hoveller — (UK, dialect) One who assists in saving life and property from a wreck; a coast boatman.
- hoverfly — Any of various flies from the family Syrphidae that hover in the air and feed on the nectar of flowers.
- humicole — any plant that thrives on humus
- 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.
- hydromel — a liquor consisting of honey and water that, when fermented, becomes mead.
- hylobate — Any of the genus Hylobates of gibbons.
- hypergol — any hypergolic agent.
- hypobole — the act of anticipating objection for the purpose of refutation
- hypogeal — underground; subterranean.
- 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.
- jolthead — (archaic) A dunce; a blockhead.
- kephalos — Cephalus.
- keyholes — Plural form of keyhole.
- 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.
- koheleth — the book of Ecclesiastes.
- kolaches — Plural form of kolache.
- kuleshov — Lev (Vladimirovich) [lef vlad-uh-meer-uh-vich;; Russian lyef vluh-dyee-myi-ruh-vyich] /lɛf ˌvlæd əˈmɪər ə vɪtʃ;; Russian lyɛf vlʌˈdyi myɪ rə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1899–1970, Soviet film director.
- la hogue — La [la] /la/ (Show IPA), La Hogue.
- larouche — Lyndon H., Jr. born 1922, U.S. economist and politician.