8-letter words starting with HE
Embark on a linguistic journey with words that begin with the letter HE. This section showcases how HE at the start shapes the identity and sound of various words. From commonly used terms to rare finds, explore the diverse range of words that start with HE, enriching your vocabulary and appreciation for language.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| headache | 17 | pain in the head caused by dilation of cerebral arteries or muscle contractions or a reaction to drugs | - |
| hercules | 13 | (classical mythology) a hero noted for his strength; performed 12 immense labors to gain immortality | - |
| helpless | 13 | lacking in or deprived of strength or power | lying ill and helpless |
| hesitate | 11 | interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing | - |
| heavenly | 17 | relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven | heavenly hosts |
| heritage | 12 | any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors | the world's heritage of knowledge |
| headline | 12 | the heading or caption of a newspaper article | - |
| headless | 12 | not using intelligence | - |
| hedgehog | 17 | relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur | - |
| heirloom | 13 | (law) any property that is considered by law or custom as inseparable from an inheritance is inherited with that inheritance | - |
| headband | 15 | a band worn around or over the head | the earphones were held in place by a headband |
| hellhole | 14 | any place of pain and turmoil | - |
| hesitant | 11 | lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or decide quickly or firmly | - |
| heaviest | 14 | - | - |
| henchman | 18 | someone who assists in a plot | - |
| heartily | 14 | in a hearty manner | `Yes,' the children chorused heartily |
| hellfire | 14 | a place of eternal fire envisaged as punishment for the damned | - |
| hematoma | 15 | a localized swelling filled with blood | - |
| helpline | 13 | - | - |
| headshot | 15 | an attempt to put the soccer ball into the net by using the head | - |
| henhouse | 14 | a farm building for housing poultry | - |
| headgear | 13 | clothing for the head | - |
| heralded | 13 | publicly announced | the royal couple's much heralded world tour |
| heighten | 15 | make (one's senses) more acute | - |
| herdsman | 14 | someone who drives a herd | - |
| hedonism | 14 | an ethical system that evaluates the pursuit of pleasure as the highest good | - |
| heredity | 15 | the total of inherited attributes | - |
| headlock | 18 | a wrestling hold in which the opponent's head is locked between the crook of your elbow and the side of your body | - |
| headlong | 13 | with the head foremost | the runner slid headlong into third base |
| herewith | 17 | (formal) by means of this | - |
| helmsman | 15 | the person who steers a ship | - |
| hearties | 11 | - | - |
| heatwave | 17 | - | - |
| heliport | 13 | an airport for helicopters | - |
| hedgerow | 16 | a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes | - |
| headwind | 16 | wind blowing opposite to the path of a ship or aircraft | - |
| heckling | 18 | shouting to interrupt a speech with which you disagree | - |
| hemostat | 13 | a surgical instrument that stops bleeding by clamping the blood vessel | - |
| hermetic | 15 | completely sealed; completely airtight | - |
| heavyset | 17 | having a short and solid form or stature | he was tall and heavyset |
| hegemony | 17 | the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others | the hegemony of a single member state is not incompatible with a genuine confederation |
| heedless | 12 | characterized by careless unconcern | the heedless generosity and the spasmodic extravagance of persons used to large fortunes |
| helminth | 16 | worm that is parasitic on the intestines of vertebrates especially roundworms and tapeworms and flukes | - |
| herpetic | 15 | - | - |
| headrest | 12 | a cushion attached to the top of the back of an automobile's seat to prevent whiplash | - |
| hedonist | 12 | someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures | - |
| hematite | 13 | the principal form of iron ore; consists of ferric oxide in crystalline form; occurs in a red earthy form | - |
| headhunt | 15 | - | - |
| headland | 13 | a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) | - |
| heraldry | 15 | emblem indicating the right of a person to bear arms | - |
| heartier | 11 | - | - |
| hearting | 12 | - | - |
| heirless | 11 | - | - |
| helpmate | 15 | a helpful partner | - |
| hempseed | 16 | - | - |
| hereunto | 11 | - | - |
| headachy | 20 | - | - |
| headages | 13 | - | - |
| headbang | 15 | - | - |
| headcase | 14 | - | - |
| headends | 13 | - | - |
| headfast | 15 | a mooring line that secures the bow of a boat or ship to a wharf | - |
| headfish | 18 | among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters | - |
| headfuck | 21 | - | - |
| headfuls | 15 | - | - |
| headgate | 13 | - | - |
| headiest | 12 | - | - |
| headings | 13 | - | - |
| headlamp | 16 | a powerful light with reflector; attached to the front of an automobile or locomotive | - |
| headlike | 16 | having a protuberance that resembles a head | - |
| headmark | 18 | - | - |
| headmost | 14 | - | - |
| headnote | 12 | - | - |
| headpins | 14 | - | - |
| headpond | 15 | - | - |
| headrace | 14 | a waterway that feeds water to a mill or water wheel or turbine | - |
| headrail | 12 | - | - |
| headrigs | 13 | - | - |
| headring | 13 | - | - |
| headroom | 14 | vertical space available to allow easy passage under something | - |
| headrope | 14 | - | - |
| headsail | 12 | any sail set forward of the foremast of a vessel | - |
| headsets | 12 | - | - |
| headship | 17 | the position of head | - |
| headsman | 14 | an executioner who beheads the condemned person | - |
| headsmen | 14 | - | - |
| headstay | 15 | - | - |
| headwall | 15 | - | - |
| headward | 16 | - | - |
| headways | 18 | - | - |
| headword | 16 | a content word that can be qualified by a modifier | - |
| headwork | 19 | - | - |
| healable | 13 | - | - |
| healding | 13 | - | - |
| healings | 12 | - | - |
| healsome | 13 | - | - |
| heapiest | 13 | - | - |
| hearable | 13 | heard or perceptible by the ear | - |
| hearings | 12 | - | - |
| hearkens | 15 | - | - |
| hearsays | 14 | - | - |
| hearsier | 11 | - | - |
| hearsing | 12 | - | - |
| heartens | 11 | - | - |
| heartlet | 11 | - | - |
| heartpea | 13 | - | - |
| heatable | 13 | capable of becoming hot | the heatable tip of a soldering iron |
| heatedly | 15 | in a heated manner | `To say I am behind the strike is so much nonsense,' declared Mr Harvey heatedly |
| heathens | 14 | - | - |
| heathers | 14 | - | - |
| heathery | 17 | - | - |
| heathier | 14 | - | - |
| heatings | 12 | - | - |
| heatless | 11 | without generating heat | luminescent organisms emit heatless light |
| heatspot | 13 | - | - |
| heavings | 15 | - | - |
| heavyish | 20 | - | - |
| hebdomad | 17 | any period of seven consecutive days | - |
| hebenons | 13 | - | - |
| hebetant | 13 | - | - |
| hebetate | 13 | - | - |
| hebetude | 14 | mental lethargy or dullness | - |
| hebraise | 13 | - | - |
| hebraize | 22 | - | - |
| hecatomb | 17 | a great sacrifice; an ancient Greek or Roman sacrifice of 100 oxen | - |
| hechting | 17 | - | - |
| hecklers | 17 | - | - |
| hectares | 13 | - | - |
| hectical | 15 | - | - |
| hecticly | 18 | - | - |
| hectored | 14 | - | - |
| hectorer | 13 | - | - |
| hectorly | 16 | - | - |
| heddling | 14 | - | - |
| hedgehop | 18 | fly very close to the ground | - |
| hedgepig | 16 | - | - |
| hedgiest | 13 | - | - |
| hedgings | 14 | - | - |
| hedonics | 14 | - | - |
| heediest | 12 | - | - |
| heehawed | 18 | - | - |
| heelball | 13 | - | - |
| heelbars | 13 | - | - |
| heelings | 12 | - | - |
| heelless | 11 | - | - |
| heelpost | 13 | - | - |
| heeltaps | 13 | - | - |
| heftiest | 14 | - | - |
| hegemons | 14 | - | - |
| hegumene | 14 | - | - |
| hegumens | 14 | - | - |
| hegumeny | 17 | - | - |
| heighths | 18 | - | - |
| heirdoms | 14 | - | - |
| heirship | 16 | - | - |
| heisters | 11 | - | - |
| heisting | 12 | - | - |
| heitikis | 15 | - | - |
| heketara | 15 | - | - |
| hektares | 15 | - | - |
| helenium | 13 | genus of American herbs with flowers having yellow rays: sneezeweeds | - |
| heliacal | 13 | pertaining to or near the sun; especially the first rising of a star after and last setting before its invisibility owing to its conjunction with the sun | the heliacal rising of the Dog Star |
| heliasts | 11 | - | - |
| helicase | 13 | - | - |
| helicity | 16 | - | - |
| helicoid | 14 | - | - |
| helicons | 13 | - | - |
| helicopt | 15 | - | - |
| helideck | 18 | - | - |
| helilift | 14 | - | - |
| heliodor | 12 | - | - |
| helioses | 11 | - | - |
| heliosis | 11 | - | - |
| helipads | 14 | - | - |
| heliskis | 15 | - | - |
| helistop | 13 | - | - |
| helitack | 17 | - | - |
| hellbent | 13 | - | - |
| hellcats | 13 | - | - |
| helleris | 11 | - | - |
| hellicat | 13 | - | - |
| helliers | 11 | - | - |
| hellions | 11 | - | - |
| hellkite | 15 | - | - |
| helloing | 12 | - | - |
| hellward | 15 | - | - |
| helmeted | 14 | equipped with or wearing a helmet | - |
| helmless | 13 | - | - |
| helmsmen | 15 | - | - |
| helotage | 12 | - | - |
| helotism | 13 | - | - |
| helpable | 15 | - | - |
| helpdesk | 18 | a service that provides information and assistance to the users of a computer network | - |
| helpings | 14 | - | - |
| helpmeet | 15 | a helpful partner | - |
| hemagogs | 15 | - | - |
| hematein | 13 | - | - |
| hematics | 15 | - | - |
| hematine | 13 | - | - |
| hematins | 13 | - | - |
| hematoid | 14 | - | - |
| hemiolas | 13 | - | - |
| hemiolia | 13 | - | - |
| hemiolic | 15 | - | - |
| hemiones | 13 | - | - |
| hemionus | 13 | - | - |
| hemiopia | 15 | - | - |
| hemiopic | 17 | - | - |
| hemipode | 16 | small quail-like terrestrial bird of southern Eurasia and northern Africa that lacks a hind toe; classified with wading birds but inhabits grassy plains | - |
| hemipods | 16 | - | - |
| hemipter | 15 | - | - |
| hemlines | 13 | - | - |
| hemlocks | 19 | - | - |
| hemocoel | 15 | - | - |
| hemocyte | 18 | - | - |
| hemolyse | 16 | - | - |
| hemolyze | 25 | - | - |
| hempiest | 15 | - | - |
| hemplike | 19 | - | - |
| hempweed | 19 | - | - |
| henbanes | 13 | - | - |
| henchest | 16 | - | - |
| henchmen | 18 | - | - |
| hencoops | 15 | - | - |
| henequen | 20 | - | - |
| henequin | 20 | - | - |
| heniquen | 20 | - | - |
| heniquin | 20 | - | - |
| hennaing | 12 | - | - |
| henniest | 11 | - | - |
| henpecks | 19 | - | - |
| heparins | 13 | - | - |
| hepatica | 15 | any of several plants of the genus Hepatica having three-lobed leaves and white or pinkish flowers in early spring; of moist and mossy subalpine woodland areas of north temperate regions | - |
| hepatics | 15 | - | - |
| hepatise | 13 | - | - |
| hepatite | 13 | - | - |
| hepatize | 22 | - | - |
| hepatoma | 15 | carcinoma of the liver | - |
| hepsters | 13 | - | - |
| heptagon | 14 | a seven-sided polygon | - |
| heptanes | 13 | - | - |
| heptarch | 18 | - | - |
| heptoses | 13 | - | - |
| heraldic | 14 | of or relating to heraldry | - |
| herbaged | 15 | - | - |
| herbages | 14 | - | - |
| herbaria | 13 | - | - |
| herbelet | 13 | - | - |
| herbiest | 13 | - | - |
| herbists | 13 | - | - |
| herbless | 13 | - | - |
| herblets | 13 | - | - |
| herblike | 17 | - | - |
| herdboys | 17 | - | - |
| herdings | 13 | - | - |
| herdlike | 16 | - | - |
| herdsmen | 14 | - | - |
| herdwick | 21 | - | - |
| hereaway | 17 | - | - |
| herefrom | 16 | - | - |
| hereinto | 11 | - | - |
| hereness | 11 | the state of being here in this place | - |
| heresies | 11 | - | - |
| heretics | 13 | - | - |
| heretrix | 18 | - | - |
| hereupon | 13 | - | - |
| herisson | 11 | - | - |
| heritors | 11 | - | - |
| heritrix | 18 | - | - |
| herlings | 12 | - | - |
| hermaean | 13 | - | - |
| hermitic | 15 | characterized by ascetic solitude | his hermitic existence |
| hermitry | 16 | - | - |
| herniate | 11 | - | - |
| hernshaw | 17 | - | - |
| heroical | 13 | having or displaying qualities appropriate for heroes | - |
| heroicly | 16 | - | - |
| heroines | 11 | - | - |
| heroised | 12 | - | - |
| heroises | 11 | - | - |
| heroisms | 13 | - | - |
| heroized | 21 | - | - |
| heroizes | 20 | - | - |
| heronsew | 14 | - | - |
| heroship | 16 | - | - |
| herpeses | 13 | - | - |
| herptile | 13 | - | - |
| herrings | 12 | - | - |
| herrying | 15 | - | - |
| hersalls | 11 | - | - |
| herships | 16 | - | - |
| herstory | 14 | - | - |
| hesperid | 14 | - | - |
| hessians | 11 | - | - |
| hessites | 11 | - | - |
| hetaerae | 11 | - | - |
| hetaeras | 11 | - | - |
| hetaeric | 13 | - | - |
| hetairai | 11 | - | - |
| hetairas | 11 | - | - |
| hetairia | 11 | - | - |
| hetairic | 13 | - | - |
| heuchera | 16 | genus of North American herbs with basal cordate or orbicular leaves and small panicled flowers | - |
| heurekas | 15 | - | - |
| heuretic | 13 | - | - |
| heurisms | 13 | - | - |
| hexafoil | 21 | - | - |
| hexaglot | 19 | - | - |
| hexagons | 19 | - | - |
| hexagram | 21 | a regular polygon formed by extending each of the sides of a regular hexagon to form two equilateral triangles | - |
| hexamine | 20 | - | - |
| hexanoic | 20 | - | - |
| hexaplar | 20 | - | - |
| hexaplas | 20 | - | - |
| hexapods | 21 | - | - |
| hexapody | 24 | - | - |
| hexarchy | 26 | - | - |
| hexereis | 18 | - | - |
| hexosans | 18 | - | - |
| hexylene | 21 | - | - |
| heyducks | 21 | - | - |
