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8-letter words containing w, h, e

  • gee whiz — People sometimes say gee whiz in order to express a strong reaction to something or to introduce a remark or response.
  • gee-whiz — arousing or characterized by surprise, wonder, or triumphant achievement: a gee-whiz technology; a gee-whiz reaction to the sight of the Grand Canyon.
  • gershwin — George, 1898–1937, U.S. composer.
  • get with — to go along with
  • gluhwein — mulled wine
  • gunwhale — Misspelling of gunwale.
  • hallowed — regarded as holy; venerated; sacred: Hallowed be Thy name; the hallowed saints; our hallowed political institutions.
  • hamewith — in a homewards manner
  • handsewn — sewn by hand.
  • handwave — [possibly from gestures characteristic of stage magicians] To gloss over a complex point; to distract a listener; to support a (possibly actually valid) point with blatantly faulty logic. If someone starts a sentence with "Clearly..." or "Obviously..." or "It is self-evident that...", it is a good bet he is about to handwave (alternatively, use of these constructions in a sarcastic tone before a paraphrase of someone else's argument suggests that it is a handwave). The theory behind this term is that if you wave your hands at the right moment, the listener may be sufficiently distracted to not notice that what you have said is wrong. Failing that, if a listener does object, you might try to dismiss the objection with a wave of your hand. The use of this word is often accompanied by gestures: both hands up, palms forward, swinging the hands in a vertical plane pivoting at the elbows and/or shoulders (depending on the magnitude of the handwave); alternatively, holding the forearms in one position while rotating the hands at the wrist to make them flutter. In context, the gestures alone can suffice as a remark; if a speaker makes an outrageously unsupported assumption, you might simply wave your hands in this way, as an accusation, far more eloquent than words could express, that his logic is faulty.
  • hardware — metalware, as tools, locks, hinges, or cutlery.
  • hardwire — Alternative spelling of hard-wire.
  • harewood — the greenish-gray wood of the sycamore maple, used for making furniture.
  • harrowed — an agricultural implement with spikelike teeth or upright disks, drawn chiefly over plowed land to level it, break up clods, root up weeds, etc.
  • harrower — an agricultural implement with spikelike teeth or upright disks, drawn chiefly over plowed land to level it, break up clods, root up weeds, etc.
  • hawaiite — (geology) An olivine basalt intermediate between alkali olivine and mugearite.
  • hawk-eye — a dark-blue chatoyant quartz formed by the silicification of crocidolite, used for ornamental purposes. Compare tiger's-eye (def 1).
  • hawkbell — a small bell fitted to a hawk's leg
  • hawklike — any of numerous birds of prey of the family Accipitridae, having a short, hooked beak, broad wings, and curved talons, often seen circling or swooping at low altitudes.
  • hawknose — a nose curved like the beak of a hawk.
  • hawkweed — any composite plant of the genus Hieracium, usually bearing yellow flowers.
  • headwall — a cliff or steep slope rising at one end of a glaciated valley.
  • headward — In the region or direction of the head.
  • headwear — coverings for the head, especially hats.
  • headwind — a wind opposed to the course of a moving object, especially an aircraft or other vehicle (opposed to tailwind).
  • headword — a word, phrase, or the like, appearing as the heading of a chapter, dictionary or encyclopedia entry, etc.
  • headwork — mental labor; thought.
  • heatwave — period of hot weather
  • hedgerow — a row of bushes or trees forming a hedge.
  • heelwork — the training of a dog to heel or perform maneuvers while heeling.
  • hellward — towards hell
  • hempweed — a climbing herb with flowers that smell of vanilla
  • hen hawk — chicken hawk (def 1).
  • henslowe — Philip, died 1616, English theater manager.
  • hepworth — Dame Barbara, 1903–75, English sculptor.
  • herdwick — a hardy breed of coarse-woolled sheep from NW England
  • hereaway — hereabout.
  • hereward — called Hereward the Wake. 11th-century Anglo-Saxon rebel, who defended the Isle of Ely against William the Conqueror (1070–71): a subject of many legends
  • herewith — along with this.
  • hernshaw — a heron.
  • hideaway — a place to which a person can retreat for safety, privacy, relaxation, or seclusion; refuge: His hideaway is in the mountains.
  • hiveward — (of a bee's movement) towards the hive
  • hiwassee — a river in NE Georgia, SW North Carolina, and SE Tennessee, flowing N to the Tennessee River. 150 miles (241 km) long.
  • hoedowns — Plural form of hoedown.
  • hole saw — crown saw.
  • hollowed — having a space or cavity inside; not solid; empty: a hollow sphere.
  • hollower — Comparative form of hollow.
  • home row — (in touch typing) the row on a typewriter or computer keyboard that contains the keys (home keys) to which four fingers of each hand return as a base, on a QWERTY keyboard being A, S, D, and F for the left hand and J, K, L, and the semicolon for the right.
  • homebrew — beer or other alcoholic beverage made at home.
  • hometown — the town or city in which a person lives or was born, or from which a person comes.
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