8-letter words containing h, o, l, e
- phleboid — pertaining to or resembling a vein.
- phlegmon — a swollen, red, and painful mass affecting bodily tissue that may progress to abscess
- phyllode — an expanded petiole resembling and having the function of a leaf, but without a true blade.
- phyllome — a leaf of a plant.
- 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.
- plethora — overabundance; excess: a plethora of advice and a paucity of assistance.
- plughole — drainage hole in sink or bath
- 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.
- porthole — a round, windowlike opening with a hinged, watertight glass cover in the side of a vessel for admitting air and light. Compare port4 (def 1).
- posthole — a hole dug in the earth for setting in the end of a post, as for a fence.
- potholed — A potholed road has a lot of potholes in it.
- potholer — an explorer of caves; spelunker.
- rat-hole — a hole made by a rat, as into a room, barn, etc.: The first chore in the old building is to plug up the ratholes.
- reclothe — to clothe (someone or something) again or provide new clothing for (someone)
- regolith — mantle rock.
- reinhold — a male given name.
- replough — to plough again
- repolish — a repolishing, the action of polishing again
- reschool — to school again; retrain
- rheology — the study of the deformation and flow of matter.
- rheophil — (of organisms) liking flowing water
- rhyolite — a fine-grained igneous rock rich in silica: the volcanic equivalent of granite.
- robohelp — (tool) A Microsoft Windows Help authoring tool from Blue Sky Software. Used with Microsoft Word to create Help files for inclusion in a Windows application or for stand alone use.
- rochdale — a borough of Greater Manchester, in N England: site of one of the earliest cooperative societies 1844.
- rochelle — a seaport in and the capital of Charente Maritime, in W France; besieged while a Huguenot stronghold 1627–29.
- rolliche — roulade (def 2).
- roughleg — any of several kinds of large hawk with feathered legs
- schooled — a large number of fish, porpoises, whales, or the like, feeding or migrating together.
- schooler — an institution where instruction is given, especially to persons under college age: The children are at school.
- schoolie — a fish that swims within a school.
- selcouth — strange; uncommon.
- selfhood — the state of being an individual person; individuality.
- 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.
- she-wolf — a female wolf.
- shedload — a very large amount or number
- sherlock — a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “fair-haired.”.
- shockley — William Bradford, 1910–1989, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1956.
- shoebill — a large, African, storklike bird, Balaeniceps rex, having a broad, flattened bill shaped somewhat like a shoe.
- shoelace — a string or lace for fastening a shoe.
- shoeless — an external covering for the human foot, usually of leather and consisting of a more or less stiff or heavy sole and a lighter upper part ending a short distance above, at, or below the ankle.
- shothole — a hole drilled in rock, coal, ore, etc., to hold explosives used in blasting.
- shotwell — James Thomson, 1874–1965, U.S. diplomat, historian, and educator.
- shoulder — the part of each side of the body in humans, at the top of the trunk, extending from each side of the base of the neck to the region where the arm articulates with the trunk.
- shoveled — an implement consisting of a broad blade or scoop attached to a long handle, used for taking up, removing, or throwing loose matter, as earth, snow, or coal.
- shoveler — a person or thing that shovels.
- showable — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
- sinkhole — a hole formed in soluble rock by the action of water, serving to conduct surface water to an underground passage.