8-letter words starting with he
- hecatomb — (in ancient Greece and Rome) a public sacrifice of 100 oxen to the gods.
- hechsher — rabbinical approval of meats and other foods that comply with the ritual requirements of Jewish dietary laws, usually issued in the form of an endorsing mark or stamp on the products so approved.
- hecklers — Plural form of heckler.
- heckling — to harass (a public speaker, performer, etc.) with impertinent questions, gibes, or the like; badger.
- hectares — Plural form of hectare.
- hecticly — characterized by intense agitation, excitement, confused and rapid movement, etc.: The week before the trip was hectic and exhausting.
- hectored — Simple past form of hector.
- hectorer — a person who bullies or hectors
- hectorly — in the manner of a hector
- hedgehog — an Old World, insect-eating mammal of the genus Erinaceus, especially E. europaeus, having spiny hairs on the back and sides.
- hedgehop — to fly an airplane at a very low altitude, as for spraying crops or for low-level bombing in warfare.
- hedgerow — a row of bushes or trees forming a hedge.
- hedonics — the branch of psychology that deals with pleasurable and unpleasurable states of consciousness.
- hedonism — the doctrine that pleasure or happiness is the highest good.
- hedonist — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
- heedfull — Archaic form of heedful.
- heedless — careless; thoughtless; unmindful: Heedless of the danger, he returned to the burning building to save his dog.
- heel fly — cattle grub.
- heel-tap — a layer of leather, metal, or the like in a shoe heel; a lift.
- heelball — a substance composed of lampblack and wax used for making rubbings or for polishing shoes.
- heelless — Without a heel.
- heelpost — a post made to withstand strain, forming or fitted to the end of something, as the post on which a gate or door is hinged.
- heelside — (board sports) the side of the board nearest the heel.
- heeltaps — Plural form of heeltap.
- heelwork — the training of a dog to heel or perform maneuvers while heeling.
- heftiest — Superlative form of hefty.
- hegelian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Hegel or his philosophical system.
- 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
- heigh-ho — used variously to express mild surprise, boredom, disappointment, fatigue, etc., or used as a greeting
- heighten — to increase the height of; make higher.
- heighths — (archaic) Plural form of heighth; an archaic variant of heights.
- heiltsuk — a member of a coastal Native Canadian people living in British Columbia
- heimdall — the god of dawn and light.
- heinlein — Robert A(nson) 1907–1988, U.S. science-fiction writer.
- heinrich — a male given name, Germanic form of Henry.
- heirless — a person who inherits or has a right of inheritance in the property of another following the latter's death.
- heirloom — a family possession handed down from generation to generation.
- heirship — the position or rights of an heir; right of inheritance; inheritance.
- heisting — a robbery or holdup: Four men were involved in the armored car heist.
- heketara — a small shrub, Olearia rani, which has flowers with white petals and yellow centres
- hekhsher — hechsher.
- helenium — An American plant of the daisy family that bears many red to yellow flowers, each having a prominent central disk.
- heliacal — pertaining to or occurring near the sun, especially applied to such risings and settings of a star as are most nearly coincident with those of the sun while yet visible.
- helicase — any of the enzymes that use the energy derived from the hydrolysis of nucleoside triphosphates to unwind the double-stranded helical structure of nucleic acids: RNA and DNA helicases.
- helicity — Helical character, especially of DNA.
- helicoid — coiled or curving like a spiral.
- helicons — Plural form of helicon.
- helicopt — to fly or transport using a helicopter