8-letter words containing m, e, n, h
- handsome — having an attractive, well-proportioned, and imposing appearance suggestive of health and strength; good-looking: a handsome man; a handsome woman.
- handymen — Plural form of handyman.
- headsman — a public executioner who beheads condemned persons.
- headsmen — Plural form of headsman.
- hedonism — the doctrine that pleasure or happiness is the highest good.
- hegemony — leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others, as in a confederation.
- hegumene — the head of a nunnery of the Eastern Church
- hegumeny — the office of a hegumen
- helenium — An American plant of the daisy family that bears many red to yellow flowers, each having a prominent central disk.
- helminth — a worm, especially a parasitic worm.
- helmsman — a person who steers a ship.
- helmsmen — Plural form of helmsman.
- helpmann — Sir Robert (Murray) 1909–86, Australian dancer, choreographer, and actor.
- hematein — a reddish-brown, crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 16 H 12 O 6 , obtained from logwood: used chiefly as a stain in microscopy.
- hematine — Biochemistry. heme.
- hemionus — (zoology, obsolete) A wild ass found in Tibet; the kiang.
- hemlines — Plural form of hemline.
- hemmings — Plural form of hemming.
- hempvine — Any plant of the genus Mikania.
- henchman — an unscrupulous and ruthless subordinate, especially a criminal: The leader of the gang went everywhere accompanied by his henchmen.
- henchmen — Plural form of henchman.
- herdsman — a herder; the keeper of a herd, especially of cattle or sheep.
- herdsmen — Plural form of herdsman.
- hermaean — denoting or relating to a herm
- hermione — the daughter of Menelaus and Helen.
- herrmann — Bernard, 1911–75, U.S. conductor and composer.
- hexamine — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 6 H 12 N 4 , used as a vulcanization accelerator, an absorbent in gas masks, in the manufacture of the explosive RDX and synthetic resins, and in medicine as a diuretic and urinary antiseptic.
- hexomino — (geometry) A polyomino made up of six squares.
- hielaman — an Australian Aboriginal shield
- hielamon — a shield made of wood or bark.
- hivemind — the property of apparent sentience in a colony of social insects acting as a single organism, each insect performing a specific role for the good of the group.
- home run — Baseball. a hit that enables a batter, without the aid of a fielding error, to score a run by making a nonstop circuit of the bases.
- homeborn — That which is born in a given place, native, indigenous.
- homeland — one's native land.
- homering — Present participle of homer.
- homespun — spun or made at home: homespun cloth.
- hometown — the town or city in which a person lives or was born, or from which a person comes.
- hominess — comfortably informal and inviting; cozy; homelike: a homey little inn.
- hominine — resembling or characteristic of humans.
- hominize — to make something characteristically human or suitable for humans
- homodyne — of or relating to reception by a device that generates a varying voltage of the same or nearly the same frequency as the incoming carrier wave and combines it with the incoming signal for detection.
- homogeny — correspondence in form or structure, owing to a common origin.
- hormones — Biochemistry. any of various internally secreted compounds, as insulin or thyroxine, formed in endocrine glands, that affect the functions of specifically receptive organs or tissues when transported to them by the body fluids.
- hornbeam — any North American shrub or tree belonging to the genus Carpinus, of the birch family, yielding a hard, heavy wood, as C. caroliniana (American hornbeam)
- horseman — a person who is skilled in riding a horse.
- horsemen — Plural form of horseman.
- hostname — (computing) the unique name by which any device attached to a network is known.
- hotelman — hotelkeeper.
- houseman — a male servant who performs general duties in a home, hotel, etc.
- housemen — Plural form of houseman.