8-letter words starting with h
- halflife — Alternative spelling of half-life.
- halfling — (in fiction and fantasy) a member of a race of small people.
- halfmoon — the moon when, at either quadrature, half its disk is illuminated.
- halfness — The quality of being half; incompleteness.
- halfpace — (archaic, architecture) A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight.
- halfpipe — Alternative form of half-pipe.
- halftime — the period indicating completion of half the time allowed for an activity, as for a football or basketball game or an examination.
- halftone — Also called middle-tone. (in painting, drawing, graphics, photography, etc.) a value intermediate between light and dark.
- halfwits — Plural form of halfwit.
- halfword — (computing) An area of storage one half the size of the word in a particular system; usually two bytes.
- halibuts — Plural form of halibut.
- halidome — a holy place, as a church or sanctuary.
- halitous — relating to a mist or emission
- halliard — any of various lines or tackles for hoisting a spar, sail, flag, etc., into position for use.
- halligan — A tool, used mostly by firemen, to pry open buildings, manholes, wrecked cars, etc.
- hallmark — an official mark or stamp indicating a standard of purity, used in marking gold and silver articles assayed by the Goldsmiths' Company of London; plate mark.
- hallooed — Simple past tense and past participle of halloo.
- halloumi — a salty cheese originating in Cyprus and made from sheep’s or goat’s milk: often grilled or fried because it melts very slowly.
- hallowed — regarded as holy; venerated; sacred: Hallowed be Thy name; the hallowed saints; our hallowed political institutions.
- hallucal — of or relating to the hallux.
- halluces — the first or innermost digit of the foot of humans and other primates or of the hind foot of other mammals; great toe; big toe.
- hallways — Plural form of hallway.
- halmstad — a seaport in SW Sweden.
- haloform — A compound derived from methane by substituting three hydrogen atoms for halogen atoms, e.g., chloroform.
- halogens — Plural form of halogen.
- halolike — resembling a halo.
- halophil — Halobacterium.
- halosere — a plant community that originates and develops in conditions of high salinity
- haltered — Simple past tense and past participle of halter.
- halteres — Plural form of haltere.
- haltless — without stopping
- halutzim — a person who immigrates to Israel to establish or join a settlement for accomplishing tasks, as clearing the land or planting trees, that are necessary to future development of the country.
- halyards — Plural form of halyard.
- hamartia — tragic flaw.
- hame tug — a loop or short leather strap attaching a trace to a hame.
- hamerkop — Alternative spelling of hammerkop.
- hamewith — in a homewards manner
- hamilton — William Hamilton
- hamlisch — Marvin. 1944–2012, US composer, best known for the musical A Chorus Line (1975)
- hammered — shaped, formed, or ornamented by a metalworker's hammer: a hammered bowl of brass; hammered gold.
- hammerer — One who hammers.
- hammocks — Plural form of hammock.
- hampered — Hinder or impede the movement or progress of.
- hampster — Alternative form of hamster.
- hamsters — Plural form of hamster.
- hamulate — Furnished with a small hook; hook-shaped.
- hand job — an act of masturbation.
- hand log — chip log.
- hand off — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- hand out — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.