8-letter words containing hea
- pierhead — the outermost end of a pier or wharf.
- pillhead — a person who habitually takes pills, especially amphetamines or barbiturates.
- pisshead — a drunkard
- postheat — to heat (a metal piece, as a weld) after working, so as to relieve stresses.
- pyorrhea — Pathology. a discharge of pus.
- railhead — the farthest point to which the rails of a railroad have been laid.
- red heat — the temperature of a red-hot body.
- rehearse — to practice (a musical composition, a play, a speech, etc.) in private prior to a public presentation.
- reheater — any of various apparatus for heating, especially for heating water or the air in a room.
- rev-head — a motor-sport enthusiast
- sandheap — a heap of sand
- seedhead — botany: cluster of seeds on a plant
- selfheal — a plant, Prunella vulgaris, of the mint family, having pinnate leaves and tubular violet-blue flowers, formerly believed to have healing properties.
- shea nut — the seed of the shea tree and the source of shea butter.
- sheading — any of the six subdivisions of the Isle of Man
- shealing — a pasture or grazing ground.
- shearing — Usually, shears. (sometimes used with a singular verb) scissors of large size (usually used with pair of). any of various other cutting implements or machines having two blades that resemble or suggest those of scissors.
- shearman — a person whose occupation it is to trim or shear cloth
- sheathed — a case or covering for the blade of a sword, dagger, or the like.
- sheather — a person who makes sheathes
- shithead — a stupid, inept, unlikable, or contemptible person.
- sidehead — a heading or subhead run in the margin of a book or magazine.
- skinhead — a baldheaded man.
- slaphead — a bald person
- softhead — a half-witted or silly person
- sorehead — a disgruntled or vindictive person, especially an unsportsmanlike loser: Don't be such a sorehead, they won fair and square.
- spithead — a roadstead off the S coast of England between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.
- stemhead — the head of the stem of a vessel
- stephead — dropline.
- synaphea — a continuity of rhythm throughout a poem
- the heat — the police
- thearchy — the rule or government of God or of a god.
- theatine — a member of a congregation of regular clerics, founded in Italy in 1524 to combat Protestantism and promote higher morality among Roman Catholics.
- theatral — of or relating to the theatre
- theatric — of or relating to the theater or dramatic presentations: theatrical performances.
- tidehead — the inland limit of the tide.
- toolhead — a toolholder that is attached to a machine tool and can be adjusted to orient the tool in various positions.
- tracheae — Anatomy, Zoology. the tube in humans and other air-breathing vertebrates extending from the larynx to the bronchi, serving as the principal passage for conveying air to and from the lungs; the windpipe.
- tracheal — Anatomy, Zoology. pertaining to or connected with the trachea or tracheae.
- unheaded — having a heading or course.
- unhealed — to make healthy, whole, or sound; restore to health; free from ailment.
- unhealth — ill health
- unhearse — to remove from a hearse
- unheated — made hot or hotter; warmed.
- upheaval — strong or violent change or disturbance, as in a society: the upheaval of war.
- warheads — Plural form of warhead.
- weedhead — a person who uses a lot of marijuana
- wellhead — a fountainhead; source.
- wheatear — any of several small, chiefly Old World thrushes of the genus Oenanthe, having a distinctive white rump, especially O. oenanthe, of Eurasia and North America.
- wheatish — (of the complexion) of the pale golden colour of ripe wheat; light brown.