9-letter words containing a, n, o, l
- half-open — (of a file) having a pawn or pawns of only one colour on it
- halftones — Plural form of halftone.
- hallooing — Present participle of halloo.
- halloween — the evening of October 31; the eve of All Saints' Day; Allhallows Eve: observed especially by children in costumes who solicit treats, often by threatening minor pranks.
- hallowing — to make holy; sanctify; consecrate.
- halobiont — an organism that thrives in a saline environment.
- halocline — a well-defined vertical salinity gradient in ocean or other saline water.
- halogeton — a poisonous herbaceous plant, native to Siberia, that grows in North America
- halomancy — Divination by use of salt. This is the origin for the superstition of spilled salt.
- halothane — a colorless liquid, C 2 HBrClF 3 , used as an inhalant for general anesthesia.
- hamiltons — Plural form of hamilton.
- hand tool — handheld instrument
- hand-roll — (jargon) (From mainstream slang "hand-rolled cigarette" in opposition to "ready-made") To perform a normally automated software installation or configuration process by hand; implies that the normal process failed due to bugs or was defeated by something exceptional in the local environment. "The worst thing about being a gateway between four different nets is having to hand-roll a new sendmail configuration every time any of them upgrades."
- hand-tool — tool (defs 8, 9).
- handblown — (of glassware) shaped by means of a handheld blowpipe: handblown crystal.
- handholds — Plural form of handhold.
- handlooms — Plural form of handloom.
- handtowel — a small piece of thick soft cloth used to dry the hands
- haplontic — (chiefly of an alga or other lower plant) having a life cycle in which the main form is haploid, with a diploid zygote being formed only briefly.
- hard loan — a foreign loan which is to be paid back in an agreed currency which has stability and economic strength
- helgoland — a German island in the North Sea. ¼ sq. mi. (0.6 sq. km).
- heliconia — any of a genus of tropical flowering plants with long flowering panicles
- heliozoan — a protozoan of the order Heliozoa, having a spherical body and radiating pseudopods.
- heraklion — Iraklion
- hexagonal — of, relating to, or having the form of a hexagon.
- hexathlon — an athletic contest consisting of six different events
- hobnailed — furnished with hobnails.
- hodiernal — (rare) Of or pertaining to the current day.
- hog latin — pig Latin.
- holandric — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in males (opposed to hologynic).
- hollander — John, 1929–2013, U.S. poet and critic.
- hollandia — former name of Jayapura.
- holy land — Palestine (def 1).
- homelands — Plural form of homeland.
- honorable — in accordance with or characterized by principles of honor; upright: They were all honorable men.
- honorably — in accordance with or characterized by principles of honor; upright: They were all honorable men.
- hoolachan — a Highland reel
- hooligans — Plural form of hooligan.
- horizonal — relating to the horizon
- horntails — Plural form of horntail.
- hyalonema — a species of sponge with a long stem made up of long, twisted glass-like fibres
- hydrolant — an urgent warning of navigational dangers in the Atlantic Ocean, issued by the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office.
- hypnoidal — characterizing a state that resembles mild hypnosis but that is usually induced by other than hypnotic means.
- ignorable — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
- illations — Plural form of illation.
- illinoian — Geology. the third stage of the glaciation of North America during the Pleistocene.
- ilocano's — a member of a people of Luzon in the Philippines.
- in a hole — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
- indianola — a town in central Iowa.
- inflation — Economics. a persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in the loss of value of currency (opposed to deflation).