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9-letter words containing h, a, g, l

  • daylights — consciousness or wits (esp in the phrases scare, knock, or beat the (living) daylights out of someone)
  • deadlight — a bull's-eye let into the deck or hull of a vessel to admit light to a cabin
  • diaghilev — Sergei (Pavlovich) (sɪrˈɡjej ˈpavləvitʃ). 1872–1929, Russian ballet impresario. He founded (1909) and directed (1909–29) the Ballets Russes in Paris, introducing Russian ballet to the West
  • doughball — a small ball of bread dough, cooked in a stew, as an accompaniment to a meal, etc
  • earthling — an inhabitant of earth; mortal.
  • eastleigh — a borough in Hampshire, S England.
  • eightball — (in pool) the black ball, marked with the number eight
  • fanlights — Plural form of fanlight.
  • fightable — able or ready to fight
  • flagships — Plural form of flagship.
  • flash gun — a device that simultaneously discharges a flashbulb and operates a camera shutter.
  • flashbang — Alternative form of flash-bang.
  • flashguns — Plural form of flashgun.
  • flaughter — a fluttering
  • gaeltacht — any of the regions in Ireland in which Irish Gaelic is the vernacular speech. The form Gaeltacht is sometimes also used to mean the region of Scotland in which Scottish Gaelic is spoken
  • galbraithJohn Kenneth, 1908–2006, U.S. economist, born in Canada.
  • galumphed — Simple past tense and past participle of galumph.
  • galumpher — a person or animal that leaps or moves heavily or clumsily
  • gasholder — gasometer (def 2).
  • gaslights — (British) Plural form of gaslight.
  • gearwheel — a wheel having teeth or cogs that engage with those of another wheel or part; cogwheel.
  • ghastlier — Comparative form of ghastly.
  • ghostball — (baseball) A type of pitch; the knuckleball.
  • gilgamesh — a legendary Sumerian king, the hero of Sumerian and Babylonian epics.
  • gill arch — branchial arch.
  • giltheads — Plural form of gilthead.
  • glad hand — greet insincerely
  • glad-hand — to greet warmly.
  • gladsheim — the golden palace of Odin, of which Valhalla was a part.
  • glasphalt — a road-surfacing material composed of asphalt and crushed glass.
  • glassfish — any small, transparent marine, brackish, or freshwater fishes of the genus Chanda (or Ambassis), native to Africa and the Indo-Pacific region and popular in home aquariums.
  • glidepath — the course followed by an aircraft or spacecraft when descending for a landing.
  • glochidia — glochid.
  • go halves — plural of half.
  • goalmouth — the area between the goalposts directly in front of the goal in certain games, as soccer, lacrosse, and hockey.
  • goatishly — In a goatish way.
  • goliathan — huge; gigantic
  • goulashes — Plural form of goulash.
  • granolith — a composition stone for pavements, made from crushed granite or the like and cement.
  • graphical — giving a clear and effective picture; vivid: a graphic account of an earthquake.
  • guarulhos — a city in SE Brazil, NE of São Paulo.
  • guildhall — (in Britain) the hall built or used by a guild or corporation for its assemblies; town hall.
  • haggardly — In a haggard manner.
  • hagiology — the branch of literature dealing with the lives and legends of the saints.
  • half-long — (of a speech sound) of intermediate length; neither short nor fully long.
  • hallooing — Present participle of halloo.
  • hallowing — to make holy; sanctify; consecrate.
  • halogeton — a poisonous herbaceous plant, native to Siberia, that grows in North America
  • halt sign — a sign instructing traffic to stop and then proceed only if the road ahead is clear
  • haltering — Present participle of halter.
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