8-letter words containing l, h, e
- delphine — Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of dolphins.
- demolish — To demolish something such as a building means to destroy it completely.
- denglish — a variety of German containing a high proportion of English words
- depolish — to remove the polish from (an object)
- deschool — to separate education from the institution of school and operate through the pupil's life experience as opposed to a set curriculum
- devilish — A devilish idea or action is cruel or unpleasant.
- dihedral — having or formed by two planes.
- dimethyl — ethane.
- diphenyl — biphenyl.
- disflesh — (obsolete, transitive) To reduce the flesh or obesity of.
- dishevel — to let down, as hair, or wear or let hang in loose disorder, as clothing.
- dithecal — having two thecae or receptacles
- downhole — a hole dug or drilled downward, as in a mine or a petroleum or gas well.
- drawhole — a funnel-shaped vertical opening cut at the bottom of a stope, which permits the loading of ore into conveyances in the passageways below.
- dry hole — any well drilled for oil or gas that does not yield enough to be commercially profitable.
- dwelleth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dwell.
- earholes — Plural form of earhole.
- earlship — earldom (def 1).
- earthily — In an earthy manner.
- echelons — Plural form of echelon.
- echoless — Without echo.
- edgehill — a ridge in S Warwickshire: site of the indecisive first battle between Charles I and the Parliamentarians (1642) in the Civil War
- eggshell — The thin, hard outer layer of an egg, especially a hen's egg.
- elaphine — relating to or resembling a red deer
- eldritch — Weird and sinister or ghostly.
- elenchic — elenctic
- elenchus — A logical refutation.
- elephant — A heavy plant-eating mammal with a prehensile trunk, long curved ivory tusks, and large ears, native to Africa and southern Asia. It is the largest living land animal.
- eleventh — Constituting number eleven in a sequence; 11th.
- elfishly — In an elfish manner; mischievously.
- elkhound — A large hunting dog of a Scandinavian breed with a shaggy gray coat.
- enclothe — To cover with clothing.
- enlights — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enlight.
- enophile — A lover or appreciator of wine, see oenophile.
- enshield — to protect
- enthalpy — A thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the total heat content of a system. It is equal to the internal energy of the system plus the product of pressure and volume.
- enthrall — Capture the fascinated attention of.
- enthrals — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enthral.
- enthrill — (transitive) To pierce; penetrate; run through; stab.
- eolithic — denoting, relating to, or characteristic of the early part of the Stone Age, characterized by the use of crude stone tools
- erewhile — A while before ; some time ago.
- eschalot — Archaic form of shallot.
- eschewal — The act of eschewing.
- ethanoyl — of, consisting of, or containing the monovalent group CH3CO-
- ethereal — Extremely delicate and light in a way that seems too perfect for this world.
- etherial — Archaic form of ethereal.
- ethnical — (rare) Ethnic.
- ethology — The science of animal behavior.
- ethylate — (organic chemistry) To react with an ethyl compound so as to introduce one or more ethyl groups into a compound.
- ethylene — A flammable hydrocarbon gas of the alkene series, occurring in natural gas, coal gas, and crude oil and given off by ripening fruit. It is used in chemical synthesis, especially in the manufacture of polyethylene.