8-letter words containing k, h, l
- halfback — Football. one of two backs who typically line up on each side of the fullback. the position played by such a back.
- halfbeak — any of several marine fishes of the family Hemiramphidae, having a greatly elongated lower jaw.
- halfcock — The position when the cock of a gun as at the first notch.
- hallmark — an official mark or stamp indicating a standard of purity, used in marking gold and silver articles assayed by the Goldsmiths' Company of London; plate mark.
- halolike — resembling a halo.
- handlike — Resembling a hand.
- haskalah — an 18th–19th-century movement among central and eastern European Jews, begun in Germany under the leadership of Moses Mendelssohn, designed to make Jews and Judaism more cosmopolitan in character by promoting knowledge of and contributions to the secular arts and sciences and encouraging adoption of the dress, customs, and language of the general population.
- haulback — (in lumbering) a small line for pulling a cable back to its original position after it has been used to haul a log away.
- havelock — a town in SE North Carolina.
- hawk owl — a gray and white diurnal owl, Surnia ulula, of northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere, resembling a hawk in appearance and actions.
- hawkbell — a small bell fitted to a hawk's leg
- hawkbill — hawksbill turtle.
- hawklike — any of numerous birds of prey of the family Accipitridae, having a short, hooked beak, broad wings, and curved talons, often seen circling or swooping at low altitudes.
- hawkling — A small, young, or immature hawk.
- headlike — Having the form of a head or a skull.
- headlock — a hold in which a wrestler locks an arm around the opponent's head.
- hecklers — Plural form of heckler.
- heckling — to harass (a public speaker, performer, etc.) with impertinent questions, gibes, or the like; badger.
- heelwork — the training of a dog to heel or perform maneuvers while heeling.
- heiltsuk — a member of a coastal Native Canadian people living in British Columbia
- helideck — (nautical) A platform (on a vessel or offshore structure) on which helicopters may land and take off.
- hellkite — a fiendishly cruel and wicked person.
- helpdesk — Alternative spelling of help desk.
- helsinki — Finnish Suomi. a republic in N Europe: formerly a province of the Russian Empire. 130,119 sq. mi. (337,010 sq. km). Capital: Helsinki.
- hemlocks — Plural form of hemlock.
- herakles — Hercules
- heraklit — (language) A distributed object-oriented language.
- herblike — Resembling a herb or some aspect of one.
- herblock — Herbert Lawrence (Herblock) 1909–2001, U.S. cartoonist.
- herdlike — Resembling a herd or some aspect of one, especially a propensity to follow blindly after a leader.
- herolike — Resembling or characteristic of a hero; heroic.
- hickwall — any of certain European woodpeckers, especially the green woodpecker.
- hickymal — a titmouse
- hillfolk — the inhabitants of a hill or hills
- hillocks — Plural form of hillock.
- hillocky — Resembling a hillock.
- hinckley — a town in central England, in Leicestershire. Pop: 43 246 (2001)
- hipflask — Alternative spelling of hip flask.
- hock leg — a leg similar to a cabriole leg, but having a straight perpendicular section between the upper, convex section and the foot.
- holbrook — Stewart H(all) 1893–1964, U.S. historian and editor.
- holdback — the iron or strap on the shaft of a horse-drawn vehicle to which the breeching of the harness is attached, enabling the horse to hold back or to back the vehicle.
- holm oak — an evergreen oak, Quercus ilex, of southern Europe, having foliage resembling that of the holly.
- holodeck — (science fiction) A room that provides holographic simulations for recreation, training, etc.
- holy ark — a cabinet in a synagogue set into or against the wall that faces eastward toward Jerusalem, for keeping the scrolls of the Torah.
- holyoake — Sir Keith Jacka [jak-uh] /ˈdʒæk ə/ (Show IPA), 1904–83, New Zealand political leader: prime minister 1957, 1960–72; governor general 1977–80.
- homelike — like or suggestive of home; familiar; warmly comfortable.
- hoodlike — Resembling a hood.
- hooklike — Resembling a hook.
- hookload — The hookload is the total force pulling down on the hook (= a high-capacity J-shaped piece of equipment).
- hooplike — Resembling a hoop.