8-letter words containing l, a, s
- halosere — a plant community that originates and develops in conditions of high salinity
- halteres — Plural form of haltere.
- haltless — without stopping
- halyards — Plural form of halyard.
- hamlisch — Marvin. 1944–2012, US composer, best known for the musical A Chorus Line (1975)
- handfuls — Plural form of handful.
- handlers — Plural form of handler.
- handless — without a hand or hands.
- handlist — a list, as of the contents of a collection, containing few details
- handsels — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of handsel.
- handsful — Plural form of handful.
- haplosis — the production of haploid chromosome groups during meiosis.
- harelips — Plural form of harelip.
- harmless — without the power or desire to do harm; innocuous: He looks mean but he's harmless; a harmless Halloween prank.
- 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.
- hassling — a disorderly dispute.
- hasteful — swiftness of motion; speed; celerity: He performed his task with great haste. They felt the need for haste.
- hatchels — Plural form of hatchel.
- hateless — without feelings of hatred
- haul ass — to pull or draw with force; move by drawing; drag: They hauled the boat up onto the beach.
- hauliers — Plural form of haulier.
- haylofts — Plural form of hayloft.
- headless — without a head.
- headsail — any of various jibs or staysails set forward of the foremost mast of a vessel.
- heatless — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
- heeltaps — Plural form of heeltap.
- helicase — any of the enzymes that use the energy derived from the hydrolysis of nucleoside triphosphates to unwind the double-stranded helical structure of nucleic acids: RNA and DNA helicases.
- helipads — Plural form of helipad.
- helmsman — a person who steers a ship.
- hemiolas — Plural form of hemiola.
- heracles — Hercules (def 1).
- herakles — Hercules
- hidalgos — Plural form of hidalgo.
- hilarius — Saint, died a.d. 468, pope 461–468.
- hillsman — A man who belongs to a tribe inhabiting the hills.
- hinsdale — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- hipflask — Alternative spelling of hip flask.
- hoarsely — having a vocal tone characterized by weakness of intensity and excessive breathiness; husky: the hoarse voice of the auctioneer.
- hobnails — Plural form of hobnail.
- holdalls — Plural form of holdall.
- holdfast — something used to hold or secure a thing in place; a catch, hook, clamp, etc.
- hole saw — crown saw.
- holidays — Plural form of holiday.
- hollands — John Philip, 1840–1914, Irish inventor in the U.S.
- hospital — an institution in which sick or injured persons are given medical or surgical treatment.
- icefalls — Plural form of icefall.
- idealess — any conception existing in the mind as a result of mental understanding, awareness, or activity.
- idealise — to make ideal; represent in an ideal form or character; exalt to an ideal perfection or excellence.
- idealism — the cherishing or pursuit of high or noble principles, purposes, goals, etc.
- idealist — a person who cherishes or pursues high or noble principles, purposes, goals, etc. Synonyms: optimist, perfectionist, reformer, visionary, utopianist. Antonyms: pragmatist, skeptic, cynic.