8-letter words containing l, h, a, s
- 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.
- inhalers — Plural form of inhaler.
- jadishly — In a jadish manner.
- kalathos — a fruit basket having a conventionalized shape of a lily, often used in ancient art as a symbol of fertility.
- kephalos — Cephalus.
- khalasis — Plural form of khalasi.
- klatches — Plural form of klatch.
- kolaches — Plural form of kolache.
- koolhaas — Rem. born 1944, Dutch architect and theorist, co-founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (1975); buildings include the Grand Palais and associated developments in Lille, France (1989–96); books include S, M, L, XL (1996)
- l-shaped — having the shape of the letter L
- lachaise — Gaston [gas-tuh n;; French ga-stawn] /ˈgæs tən;; French gaˈstɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1882–1935, U.S. sculptor, born in France.
- lachesis — the Fate who determines the length of the thread of life.
- ladyfish — a game fish, Elops saurus, of warm seas, closely related to but smaller than the tarpon.
- ladyship — (often initial capital letter) the form used in speaking of or to a woman having the title of Lady (usually preceded by her or your).
- landshut — a city in SE Germany, in Bavaria: Trausnitz castle (13th century); manufacturing centre for machinery and chemicals. Pop: 60 282 (2003 est)
- landwash — the foreshore, especially that part between high and low tidemarks.
- 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.
- lash out — the flexible part of a whip; the section of cord or the like forming the extremity of a whip.
- lashings — a binding or fastening with a rope or the like.
- lashless — Without eyelashes.