Drupal 8 load term by substring Drupal 8 has term method loadproperties which works for custom fields; however, how can I use it (or can I use it) to load by substrings. For example if I have a field: field_full_name and I want to load all terms that start with a string "David*" is this possible ... if not how?

Thanks ~
You can use the SQL operator LIKE in an entity query and append the wildcard % to the string:

$result = \Drupal::entityQuery('taxonomy_term')
  -&gt;condition('name', 'david%', 'LIKE')
  -&gt;condition('vid', 'tags')
  -&gt;execute();

$terms = \Drupal::entityTypeManager()
  -&gt;getStorage('taxonomy_term')
  -&gt;loadMultiple($result);