8-letter words starting with he
- herbaria — Plural form of herbarium.
- herbless — Destitute of herbs or vegetation.
- herblike — Resembling a herb or some aspect of one.
- herblock — Herbert Lawrence (Herblock) 1909–2001, U.S. cartoonist.
- hercules — a hero noted for his great strength, courage, and for the performance of twelve immense labours
- herdbook — A book containing the list and pedigrees of one or more herds of cattle.
- herdless — Without a herd.
- herdlike — Resembling a herd or some aspect of one, especially a propensity to follow blindly after a leader.
- herdsman — a herder; the keeper of a herd, especially of cattle or sheep.
- herdsmen — Plural form of herdsman.
- herdwick — a hardy breed of coarse-woolled sheep from NW England
- hereaway — hereabout.
- heredity — the transmission of genetic characters from parents to offspring: it is dependent upon the segregation and recombination of genes during meiosis and fertilization and results in the genesis of a new individual similar to others of its kind but exhibiting certain variations resulting from the particular mix of genes and their interactions with the environment.
- hereford — one of an English breed of red beef cattle having a white face and white body markings.
- herefrom — (archaic) henceforth, from now on.
- hereinto — into this place.
- hereness — The property of being here; existence, dasein.
- heresies — Plural form of heresy.
- heretick — Obsolete form of heretic.
- heretics — Plural form of heretic.
- heretrix — a female inheritor, heiress
- hereunto — to this matter, document, subject, etc.; regarding this point: attached hereto; agreeable hereto.
- hereupon — upon or on this.
- 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.
- herisson — A beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot, used to block up a passage.
- heritage — something that is handed down from the past, as a tradition: a national heritage of honor, pride, and courage.
- heritors — Plural form of heritor.
- herkimer — Nicholas, 1728–77, American Revolutionary general.
- hermaean — denoting or relating to a herm
- hermetic — made airtight by fusion or sealing.
- hermione — the daughter of Menelaus and Helen.
- hermitic — a person who has withdrawn to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion.
- hermitry — a person who has withdrawn to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion.
- herniate — to protrude abnormally from an enclosed cavity or from the body so as to constitute a hernia.
- hernshaw — a heron.
- herodian — of or relating to Herod the Great, his family, or its partisans.
- herodias — the second wife of Herod Antipas and the mother of Salome: she told Salome to ask Herod for the head of John the Baptist.
- heroines — Plural form of heroine.
- herolike — Resembling or characteristic of a hero; heroic.
- heroship — The character or personality of a hero.
- herpetic — of, relating to, or caused by herpes.
- herptile — A reptile or amphibian.
- herrings — Plural form of herring.
- herrmann — Bernard, 1911–75, U.S. conductor and composer.
- herschel — Sir John Frederick William, 1792–1871, English astronomer.
- herstory — history (used especially in feminist literature and in women's studies as an alternative form to distinguish or emphasize the particular experience of women).
- hertford — a city in and the county seat of Hertfordshire, in SE England.
- herzberg — Gerhard [gair-hahrd,, -hahrt] /ˈgɛər hɑrd,, -hɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1904–1999, Canadian physicist, born in Germany: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1971.
- hesitant — hesitating; undecided, doubtful, or disinclined.