9-letter words containing a, t, h, l
- heat slug — (hardware, processor) A metal plate that helps dissipate heat away from the silicon core of a processor to the packaging or heat-sink.
- heat-seal — to wrap in clear plastic and make airtight by applying heat to seal the edges.
- heathclad — Clad or crowned with heath.
- heathland — An extensive area of heath.
- heathless — Without a heath.
- heathlike — Resembling a heath or some aspect of one.
- heelplate — a small metal plate attached to the heel of a shoe to protect it against excessive wear.
- heliostat — an instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, for reflecting the sun's rays in a fixed direction.
- hell gate — a narrow channel in the East River, in New York City.
- helpmates — (British) Plural form of helpmate.
- helvetian — of or relating to Helvetia or the Helvetii.
- helvetica — (text) One of the most widely used sans-serif typefaces, developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger with Eduard Hoffmann. Originally called Neue Haas Grotesk, it was renamed Helvetica for the international market. Helvetica is very similar to the common Arial typeface. The name is Latin for Swiss.
- hemelytra — one of the forewings of a true bug, having a hard, thick basal portion and a thinner, membranous apex.
- hemoblast — hematoblast.
- 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.
- herbalist — a person who collects or deals in herbs, especially medicinal herbs.
- heretical — of, relating to, or characteristic of heretics or heresy.
- heritable — capable of being inherited; inheritable; hereditary.
- heritably — In a heritable manner.
- hesternal — (rare) Of or pertaining to yesterday.
- hexastyle — having six columns, as a portico or the facade of a classical temple.
- hexathlon — an athletic contest consisting of six different events
- hifalutin — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
- high-tail — to go away or leave rapidly: Last we saw of him, he was hightailing down the street.
- hippolyta — a queen of the Amazons, variously said to have been killed by Hercules or to have been conquered and married by Theseus.
- hitlerian — of or relating to Adolf Hitler or his regime
- hog latin — pig Latin.
- holarctic — belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising the Nearctic and Palearctic regions.
- holderbat — a bracket that supports a pipe and fastens it to a wall or surface
- holdfasts — Plural form of holdfast.
- holocaust — a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.
- homestall — Dialect. a farmyard.
- homotypal — of normal type
- horntails — Plural form of horntail.
- horsetail — Also called scouring rush. any nonflowering plant of the genus Equisetum, having hollow, jointed stems.
- hospitale — a place of lodging
- hospitals — Plural form of hospital.
- hot flash — a sudden, temporary sensation of heat experienced by some women during menopause.
- hot metal — metallic type and printing elements produced by a casting machine; foundry type.
- hot plate — a portable appliance for cooking, formerly heated by a gas burner placed underneath it, now heated chiefly by an electrical unit in the appliance.
- hotplates — Plural form of hotplate.
- hourplate — the dial of a clock or watch
- humiliant — humiliating, humbling
- humiliate — to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.
- hydrolant — an urgent warning of navigational dangers in the Atlantic Ocean, issued by the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office.
- hylobates — Plural form of hylobate.
- hypertalk — A verbose semicompiled language by Bill Atkinson and Dan Winkler, with loose syntax and high readability. HyperTalk uses HyperCard as an object management system, development environment and interface builder. Programs are organised into "stacks" of "cards", each of which may have "buttons" and "fields". All data storage is in zero-terminated strings in fields, local, or global variables; all data references are through "chunk expressions" of the form: 'last item of background field "Name List" of card ID 34217'. Flow of control is event-driven and uses message-passing among scripts that are attached to stack, background, card, field and button objects.
- hypethral — (of a classical building) wholly or partly open to the sky.
- hypoblast — the endoderm.