7-Letter Words Starting With HE

Here's the list of all the 240 7-Letter Words Starting With HE in the English Language.

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helpful
1. providing assistance or serving a useful function
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hearing
1. (law) a proceeding (usually by a court) where evidence is taken for the purpose of determining an issue of fact and reaching a decision based on that evidence
2. an opportunity to state your case and be heard
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healthy
1. having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease
2. financially secure and functioning well
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helping
1. an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal
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heating
1. the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature
2. utility to warm a building
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heights
1. a high place
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healing
1. the natural process by which the body repairs itself
2. tending to cure or restore to health
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headset
1. receiver consisting of a pair of headphones
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heading
1. a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
2. the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies
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heather
1. common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere
2. interwoven yarns of mixed colors producing muted greyish shades with flecks of color
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heavily
1. to a considerable degree
2. in a heavy-footed manner
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heavens
1. the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected
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heavier
1. of comparatively great physical weight or density
2. unusually great in degree or quantity or number
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herring
1. valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled
2. commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific
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hepatic
1. pertaining to or affecting the liver
2. any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses
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heroine
1. the main good female character in a work of fiction
2. a woman possessing heroic qualities or a woman who has performed heroic deeds
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hedging
1. any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change
2. an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement
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heparin
1. a polysaccharide produced in basophils (especially in the lung and liver) and that inhibits the activity of thrombin in coagulation of the blood; it (trade names Lipo-Hepin and Liquaemin) is used as an anticoagulant in the treatment of thrombosis and in heart surgery
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hectare
1. (abbreviated `ha') a unit of surface area equal to 100 ares (or 10,000 square meters)
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hemlock
1. poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium
2. large branching biennial herb native to Eurasia and Africa and adventive in North America having large fernlike leaves and white flowers; usually found in damp habitats; all parts extremely poisonous
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helical
1. in the shape of a coil
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heathen
1. a person who does not acknowledge your god
2. not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam
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hearsay
1. gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth
2. heard through another rather than directly
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heretic
1. a person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church
2. a person who holds unorthodox opinions in any field (not merely religion)
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heroism
1. the qualities of a hero or heroine; exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger (especially in battle)
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hexagon
1. a six-sided polygon
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headway
1. vertical space available to allow easy passage under something
2. forward movement
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heinous
1. extremely wicked, deeply criminal
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heiress
1. a female heir
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hessian
1. (19th century) a man's high tasseled boot
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helices
1. a curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle
2. a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops
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hellish
1. (informal) very unpleasant
2. extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell
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heaving
1. an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling)
2. breathing heavily (as after exertion)
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heckler
1. someone who tries to embarrass you with gibes and questions and objections
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hellcat
1. a malicious woman with a fierce temper
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hemming
1. fold over and sew together to provide with a hem
2. utter `hem' or `ahem'
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helicon
1. a tuba that coils over the shoulder of the musician
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hearken
1. listen; used mostly in the imperative
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hedonic
1. devoted to pleasure
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hegemon
1. a leading or paramount power
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heroics
1. ostentatious or vainglorious or extravagant or melodramatic conduct
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7-Letter Words Starting With HE