8-letter words containing l, a, h, g
- graithly — in a graith manner
- gralloch — the entrails of a deer
- gunwhale — Misspelling of gunwale.
- gurkhali — the language of the Gurkhas, belonging to the Indic branch of the Indo-European family
- hackling — Present participle of hackle.
- haffling — Present participle of haffle.
- hagglers — Plural form of haggler.
- haggling — Present participle of haggle.
- hair gel — a jelly-like substance applied to the hair before styling in order to retain the shape of the style
- halfling — (in fiction and fantasy) a member of a race of small people.
- halligan — A tool, used mostly by firemen, to pry open buildings, manholes, wrecked cars, etc.
- halogens — Plural form of halogen.
- hand log — chip log.
- handling — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
- hangable — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hangnail — a small piece of partly detached skin at the side or base of the fingernail.
- hassling — a disorderly dispute.
- hawkling — A small, young, or immature hawk.
- headling — (obsolete) An equal; a fellow; mate.
- headlong — with the head foremost; headfirst: to plunge headlong into the water.
- hegelian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Hegel or his philosophical system.
- helotage — a member of the lowest class in ancient Laconia, constituting a body of serfs who were bound to the land and were owned by the state. Compare Perioeci, Spartiate.
- hexaglot — a book written in six languages
- hexalogy — A set of six works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as six individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
- hidalgos — Plural form of hidalgo.
- highball — a drink of whiskey mixed with club soda or ginger ale and served with ice in a tall glass.
- highland — a region in N Scotland, including a number of the Inner Hebrides. 9710 sq. mi. (25,148 sq. km).
- hightail — to go away or leave rapidly: Last we saw of him, he was hightailing down the street.
- highwall — the unexcavated face of exposed overburden and coal in a surface mine.
- hla gene — any of a complex of genes, located on human chromosome 6, that govern the expression of HLA.
- hoagland — Edward, born 1932, U.S. novelist and essayist.
- hollaing — Present participle of holla.
- hologamy — a type of reproduction in which the gametes are like ordinary cells in form and size, as is found in some algae and protozoa
- hologram — a negative produced by exposing a high-resolution photographic plate, without camera or lens, near a subject illuminated by monochromatic, coherent radiation, as from a laser: when it is placed in a beam of coherent light a true three-dimensional image of the subject is formed.
- hooligan — a ruffian or hoodlum.
- huallaga — a river in N central Peru, flowing N to the Marañón River: part of the Amazon system. 700 miles (1126 km) long.
- huggable — evoking a desire to hug close; inviting a close embrace; cuddly: a huggable little baby.
- hyalogen — any of several insoluble substances found in many animal structures such as cartilage which yield sugars on hydrolysis structures
- hypalgia — reduced sensitivity to pain
- hypogeal — underground; subterranean.
- inhaling — Present participle of inhale.
- la hague — Cape, a cape in NW France, in the English Channel near Cherbourg: the NW extremity of the Cotentin Peninsula.
- la hogue — La [la] /la/ (Show IPA), La Hogue.
- laghouat — a city in N Algeria.
- langshan — one of a breed of large, black or white, white-skinned Asiatic domestic chickens, having a single comb and feathered shanks and producing dark-brown eggs.
- languish — to be or become weak or feeble; droop; fade.
- laoighis — a county in Leinster, in the central Republic of Ireland. 623 sq. mi. (1615 sq. km). County seat: Port Laoighise.
- lashings — a binding or fastening with a rope or the like.
- latching — a device for holding a door, gate, or the like, closed, consisting basically of a bar falling or sliding into a catch, groove, hole, etc.
- laugh at — to express mirth, pleasure, derision, or nervousness with an audible, vocal expulsion of air from the lungs that can range from a loud burst of sound to a series of quiet chuckles and is usually accompanied by characteristic facial and bodily movements.