8-letter words containing m, a, d, h
- headmost — most advanced; foremost.
- headroom — Nautical. the clear space between two decks.
- headsman — a public executioner who beheads condemned persons.
- headsmen — Plural form of headsman.
- hebdomad — the number seven.
- heimdall — the god of dawn and light.
- hematoid — hemoid.
- herdsman — a herder; the keeper of a herd, especially of cattle or sheep.
- homaloid — a geometrical plane, a flat surface or space
- homeland — one's native land.
- homemade — made or prepared at home, locally, or by the maker's own efforts: The restaurant's pastry is homemade. Breakfast at the farmhouse always meant homemade preserves.
- homeward — Also, homewards. toward home.
- horn-mad — furiously enraged; intensely angry.
- hreidmar — (in the Volsunga Saga) the father of Fafnir, Otter, and Regin. He demanded wergild from the gods for killing Otter, and was killed by Fafnir when he got it.
- humanoid — having human characteristics or form; resembling human beings.
- hump day — Wednesday
- hydremia — the state of having an excess of water in the blood.
- jihadism — a jihadi.
- jim dash — a dash, often three ems long, used within a headline, between the headline and the main body of printed matter, between items in a single column, or between related but different material within a story.
- machilid — jumping bristletail.
- machined — Simple past tense and past participle of machine.
- madhouse — a hospital for the confinement and treatment of mentally disturbed persons.
- madrasah — a school or college, especially a school attached to a mosque where young men study theology.
- mahadeva — a name of Shiva.
- mahanadi — a river in central India, flowing N and E to the Bay of Bengal. 550 miles (885 km) long.
- mahendra — (Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva) 1920–72, king of Nepal 1955–72.
- maidhood — maidenhood.
- manchild — a male child; boy; son.
- masthead — Also called flag. a statement printed in all issues of a newspaper, magazine, or the like, usually on the editorial page, giving the publication's name, the names of the owner and staff, etc.
- mathilde — a female given name, French or German form of Matilda.
- meathead — blockhead; dunce; fool.
- menhaden — any marine clupeid fish of the genus Brevoortia, especially B. tyrannus, resembling a shad but with a more compressed body, common along the eastern coast of the U.S., and used for making oil and fertilizer.
- merodach — Marduk.
- methadon — a synthetic narcotic, C 2 1 H 2 8 ClNO, similar to morphine but effective orally, used in the relief of pain and as a heroin substitute in the treatment of heroin addiction.
- midwatch — middle watch.
- misheard — to hear incorrectly or imperfectly: to mishear a remark.
- mohammed — ("the Conqueror") 1430–81, sultan of Turkey 1451–81: conqueror of Constantinople 1453.
- moorhead — a city in W Minnesota.
- mouchard — a police informer or spy
- mud bath — skin treatment: soaking in mud
- mudbaths — Plural form of mudbath.
- muhammad — ("the Conqueror") 1430–81, sultan of Turkey 1451–81: conqueror of Constantinople 1453.
- mujtahid — a person who has been certified as capable of interpreting religious law.
- mushhead — a stupid person.
- mut dash — a dash equal in length to one side of an em quad; em dash.
- myriadth — constituting a very small part of a thing
- omadhaun — a foolish man or boy
- pashadom — the office or territory of a pasha
- schiedam — a city in SW Netherlands.
- semihard — partly hard; not completely hard