8-letter words containing t, h, a, l
- hazelnut — the nut of the hazel; filbert.
- hazlenut — Misspelling of hazelnut.
- hazleton — a city in E Pennsylvania.
- heartful — An amount of emotion considered to be present in the heart.
- heartily — in a hearty manner; cordially: He was greeted heartily.
- heartlet — a little heart
- heatable — Capable of being heated.
- heatedly — made hot or hotter; warmed.
- heatless — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
- heel-tap — a layer of leather, metal, or the like in a shoe heel; a lift.
- heeltaps — Plural form of heeltap.
- hellicat — an evil creature
- helotage — a member of the lowest class in ancient Laconia, constituting a body of serfs who were bound to the land and were owned by the state. Compare Perioeci, Spartiate.
- helpmate — a companion and helper.
- helvetia — an Alpine region in Roman times, corresponding to the W and N parts of Switzerland.
- heraklit — (language) A distributed object-oriented language.
- hexaglot — a book written in six languages
- hightail — to go away or leave rapidly: Last we saw of him, he was hightailing down the street.
- hilarity — cheerfulness; merriment; mirthfulness.
- hittable — (of a ball or pitch) capable of being hit
- holdfast — something used to hold or secure a thing in place; a catch, hook, clamp, etc.
- holiatry — holism (def 2).
- horntail — any of various wasplike insects of the family Siricidae, the females of which have a hornlike ovipositor.
- hortulan — (obsolete) Belonging to a garden.
- hospital — an institution in which sick or injured persons are given medical or surgical treatment.
- hotelman — hotelkeeper.
- hotplate — a portable appliance for cooking, formerly heated by a gas burner placed underneath it, now heated chiefly by an electrical unit in the appliance.
- huntable — capable of being hunted
- hydrolat — An aromatic hydrosol, especially one made by steam distillation of a plant extract.
- hylobate — Any of the genus Hylobates of gibbons.
- ich-laut — the voiceless palatal fricative sound that is written as ch in German ich, often allophonic with the ach-laut
- inhalant — a medicine, allergen, or other substance that is inhaled.
- inthrall — Archaic form of enthrall.
- iolanthe — an operetta (1882) by Sir William S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan.
- jolthead — (archaic) A dunce; a blockhead.
- kalathos — a fruit basket having a conventionalized shape of a lily, often used in ancient art as a symbol of fertility.
- kathleen — a female given name, form of Katherine.
- kelthane — a pesticide sprayed on agricultural and ornamental plants to eliminate mites
- klatches — Plural form of klatch.
- la-chute — French La Chute. a novel (1957) by Albert Camus.
- laghouat — a city in N Algeria.
- lahontan — Lake, an Ice Age lake in W Nevada and NE California, about 8600 sq. mi. (22,000 sq. km): remnants include Carson Sink, Pyramid Lake.
- landshut — a city in SE Germany, in Bavaria: Trausnitz castle (13th century); manufacturing centre for machinery and chemicals. Pop: 60 282 (2003 est)
- lanthorn — lantern.
- lash out — the flexible part of a whip; the section of cord or the like forming the extremity of a whip.
- latch on — a device for holding a door, gate, or the like, closed, consisting basically of a bar falling or sliding into a catch, groove, hole, etc.
- latching — a device for holding a door, gate, or the like, closed, consisting basically of a bar falling or sliding into a catch, groove, hole, etc.
- latchkey — a key for releasing a latch or springlock, especially on an outer door.
- lathered — foam or froth made by a detergent, especially soap, when stirred or rubbed in water, as by a brush used in shaving or by hands in washing.
- latherer — in a barber's shop, a person who lathers the faces of customers for shaving