8-letter words starting with he
- hesitate — to be reluctant or wait to act because of fear, indecision, or disinclination: She hesitated to take the job.
- hesperia — a poetic name used by the ancient Greeks for Italy and by the Romans for Spain or beyond
- hesperid — any small butterfly of the family Hesperiidae; a skipper
- hesperus — an evening star, especially Venus.
- hessians — Plural form of Hessian.
- hetaerae — a highly cultured courtesan or concubine, especially in ancient Greece.
- hetairai — hetaera.
- hetairia — a society or association
- hetarism — Alternative form of hetaerism.
- heuchera — any of various North American plants belonging to the genus Heuchera, of the saxifrage family, having clusters of small, cup-shaped flowers, especially the alumroots.
- hevelius — Johannes (Johann Hewel or Hewelke) 1611–87, Polish astronomer: charted the moon's surface and discovered four comets.
- hex sign — any of various magical symbols of usually stylized design, as those painted on barns by the Pennsylvania Dutch for protection against evil spirits and now sometimes used for purely decorative purposes.
- hexacore — (computing, of a microprocessor) Composed of six cores.
- hexafoil — a pattern with six lobes around a regular hexagon
- hexaglot — a book written in six languages
- hexagons — Plural form of hexagon.
- hexagram — a six-pointed starlike figure formed of two equilateral triangles placed concentrically with each side of a triangle parallel to a side of the other and on opposite sides of the center.
- hexalogy — A set of six works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as six individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
- hexamine — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 6 H 12 N 4 , used as a vulcanization accelerator, an absorbent in gas masks, in the manufacture of the explosive RDX and synthetic resins, and in medicine as a diuretic and urinary antiseptic.
- hexanoic — Of or pertaining to hexanoic acid or its derivatives; caproic.
- hexapods — Plural form of hexapod.
- hexapody — a measure consisting of six feet.
- hexapole — (physics) Anything having six poles or electrodes.
- hexarchy — a group of six allied states or kingdoms each under its own ruler.
- hexeract — (mathematics) A six-dimensional hypercube.
- hexomino — (geometry) A polyomino made up of six squares.
- hexosans — Plural form of hexosan.
- hexylene — a liquid hydrocarbon similar to ethylene
- hey rube — a fight between townspeople and the members of a circus or carnival.
- hezekiah — a king of Judah of the 7th and 8th centuries b.c. II Kings 18.