8-letter words containing a, h, o, l
- hoagland — Edward, born 1932, U.S. novelist and essayist.
- hoarsely — having a vocal tone characterized by weakness of intensity and excessive breathiness; husky: the hoarse voice of the auctioneer.
- hobnails — Plural form of hobnail.
- holarchy — a system composed of interacting holons
- holdable — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- holdalls — Plural form of holdall.
- holdback — the iron or strap on the shaft of a horse-drawn vehicle to which the breeching of the harness is attached, enabling the horse to hold back or to back the vehicle.
- holdfast — something used to hold or secure a thing in place; a catch, hook, clamp, etc.
- hole saw — crown saw.
- holiatry — holism (def 2).
- holidays — Plural form of holiday.
- hollaing — Present participle of holla.
- hollande — François (frɑ̃swa). born 1954, French socialist politician, president of France (2012–17)
- hollands — John Philip, 1840–1914, Irish inventor in the U.S.
- holliday — Judith Tuvim ("Judy") 1921–65, U.S. comic actress.
- holm oak — an evergreen oak, Quercus ilex, of southern Europe, having foliage resembling that of the holly.
- hologamy — a type of reproduction in which the gametes are like ordinary cells in form and size, as is found in some algae and protozoa
- hologram — a negative produced by exposing a high-resolution photographic plate, without camera or lens, near a subject illuminated by monochromatic, coherent radiation, as from a laser: when it is placed in a beam of coherent light a true three-dimensional image of the subject is formed.
- holy ark — a cabinet in a synagogue set into or against the wall that faces eastward toward Jerusalem, for keeping the scrolls of the Torah.
- holy day — a consecrated day or religious festival, especially one other than Sunday.
- holy man — priest, spiritual leader
- holy war — a war waged for what is supposed or proclaimed to be a holy purpose, as the defense of faith.
- holyhead — a seaport on Holy Island in NW Wales.
- holyoake — Sir Keith Jacka [jak-uh] /ˈdʒæk ə/ (Show IPA), 1904–83, New Zealand political leader: prime minister 1957, 1960–72; governor general 1977–80.
- homaloid — a geometrical plane, a flat surface or space
- homeland — one's native land.
- hookload — The hookload is the total force pulling down on the hook (= a high-capacity J-shaped piece of equipment).
- hooligan — a ruffian or hoodlum.
- hordeola — sty2 .
- hormonal — Biochemistry. any of various internally secreted compounds, as insulin or thyroxine, formed in endocrine glands, that affect the functions of specifically receptive organs or tissues when transported to them by the body fluids.
- horntail — any of various wasplike insects of the family Siricidae, the females of which have a hornlike ovipositor.
- hortulan — (obsolete) Belonging to a garden.
- hospital — an institution in which sick or injured persons are given medical or surgical treatment.
- hotelman — hotelkeeper.
- hotplate — a portable appliance for cooking, formerly heated by a gas burner placed underneath it, now heated chiefly by an electrical unit in the appliance.
- hov lane — a highway or street lane for high-occupancy vehicles, usually marked with large diamond shapes on the pavement.
- hyalogen — any of several insoluble substances found in many animal structures such as cartilage which yield sugars on hydrolysis structures
- hydrolat — An aromatic hydrosol, especially one made by steam distillation of a plant extract.
- hylobate — Any of the genus Hylobates of gibbons.
- hypogeal — underground; subterranean.
- iolanthe — an operetta (1882) by Sir William S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan.
- john law — Andrew Bonar [bon-er] /ˈbɒn ər/ (Show IPA), 1858–1923, English statesman, born in Canada: prime minister 1922–23.
- jolthead — (archaic) A dunce; a blockhead.
- kalathos — a fruit basket having a conventionalized shape of a lily, often used in ancient art as a symbol of fertility.
- kephalos — Cephalus.
- kohlrabi — a cultivated cabbage, Brassica oleracea gongylodes, whose stem above ground swells into an edible, bulblike formation.
- kolaches — Plural form of kolache.
- kolhapur — a city in S Maharashtra, in SW India.
- koolhaas — Rem. born 1944, Dutch architect and theorist, co-founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (1975); buildings include the Grand Palais and associated developments in Lille, France (1989–96); books include S, M, L, XL (1996)
- la hogue — La [la] /la/ (Show IPA), La Hogue.