9-letter words containing a, l, e, g, h
- heliogram — a message sent by a heliograph.
- hell gate — a narrow channel in the East River, in New York City.
- hemialgia — pain or neuralgia involving only one side of the body or head.
- heptaglot — a book written in seven languages
- heptalogy — (rare) # A set of seven works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as seven individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
- heralding — (formerly) a royal or official messenger, especially one representing a monarch in an ambassadorial capacity during wartime.
- hexagonal — of, relating to, or having the form of a hexagon.
- hildegard — a female given name: from Germanic words meaning “battle” and “protector.”.
- hogwaller — Alternative spelling of hog waller.
- hypallage — the reversal of the expected syntactic relation between two words, as in “her beauty's face” for “her face's beauty.”.
- larghetto — a larghetto movement.
- lathering — foam or froth made by a detergent, especially soap, when stirred or rubbed in water, as by a brush used in shaving or by hands in washing.
- laughable — such as to cause laughter; funny; amusing; ludicrous.
- laughline — a wrinkle near the outer corner of the eye, as if left from smiling or laughing
- laughsome — (rare) Exciting laughter; also, addicted to laughter; merry.
- laughters — the action or sound of laughing.
- lengthman — a person whose job it is to maintain a particular length of road or railway line
- lethargic — of, relating to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish; apathetic.
- lexigraph — A lexigram or ideograph, a graphical depiction of a single word.
- lexiphage — (graphics) /lek'si-fayj"/ A notorious word chomper, implemented and named by John Doty in late 1972 on and HP calculator and later on ITS. The lexiphage program would draw on a selected victim's bitmapped terminal the words "THE BAG" in ornate letters, followed a pair of jaws biting pieces of it off.
- lich gate — a roofed gate to a churchyard under which a bier is set down during a burial service to await the coming of the clergyman.
- light ale — a type of beer that is light in colour and low in alcohol content
- lightface — a type characterized by thin, light lines. This is a sample of lightface.
- lightwave — A wave of light.
- lightyear — Alternative spelling of light year.
- logorrhea — pathologically incoherent, repetitious speech.
- lych gate — a roofed gate to a churchyard, formerly used during funerals as a temporary shelter for the bier
- mag wheel — a wheel containing magnesium or aluminum generally alloyed with steel, which makes it lighter in weight and shinier than an ordinary steel wheel: used especially on racing cars and sports cars.
- megaliths — Plural form of megalith.
- megaphyll — the relatively large type of leaf produced by ferns and seed plants
- meghalaya — a state in NE India. 8660 sq. mi. (22,429 sq. km). Capital: Shillong.
- megillahs — Plural form of megillah.
- moygashel — an Irish linen
- narghiles — Plural form of narghile.
- narguileh — hookah
- oleograph — a chromolithograph printed in oil colors on canvas or cloth.
- phalanger — any of numerous arboreal marsupials of the family Phalangeridae, of Australia, having foxlike ears and a long, bushy tail.
- phalanges — a plural of phalanx.
- rightable — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- safelight — a darkroom light with a filter that transmits only those rays of the spectrum to which films, printing paper, etc., are not sensitive.
- segholate — a noun in Hebrew that has a long vowel in the first syllable and a short seghol in the second syllable
- shaggable — sexually attractive
- shale gas — Shale gas is a natural gas that is removed from rock by forcing liquid and sand into the rock.
- shaveling — Older Use: Disparaging. a clergyman with a shaven or tonsured head.
- shearlegs — shear (def 16).
- shearling — Chiefly British. a yearling sheep that has been shorn once.
- slag heap — A slag heap is a hill made from waste material, such as rock and mud, left over from mining.
- slaughter — Frank, 1908–2001, U.S. novelist and physician.
- telegraph — an apparatus, system, or process for transmitting messages or signals to a distant place, especially by means of an electric device consisting essentially of a sending instrument and a distant receiving instrument connected by a conducting wire or other communications channel.
- the gault — the Lower Cretaceous clay formation in eastern England