9-letter words containing h, a, l, o, y
- allicholy — a feeling of sadness and despondency
- allopathy — the orthodox medical method of treating disease, by inducing a condition different from or opposed to the cause of the disease
- amphiboly — ambiguity of speech, especially from uncertainty of the grammatical construction rather than of the meaning of the words, as in The Duke yet lives that Henry shall depose.
- ampholyte — an amphoteric electrolyte
- anchylose — ankylose
- anthology — An anthology is a collection of writings by different writers published together in one book.
- aphyllous — (of plants) having no leaves
- archology — the study of the origins of things
- atheology — a resistance or aversion to theology
- aulophyte — a free-living plant growing on or in another plant.
- ayatollah — An ayatollah is a type of Muslim religious leader.
- ballyhoos — Plural form of ballyhoo.
- charcoaly — resembling charcoal
- chocolaty — a preparation of the seeds of cacao, roasted, husked, and ground, often sweetened and flavored, as with vanilla.
- clothyard — (historical) An old unit of measure for cloth, 36 or 37 inches.
- cryolathe — an instrument for reshaping the cornea to correct severe nearsightedness or farsightedness: the cornea is removed from the eye, rapidly frozen, reshaped, and reinserted.
- diachylon — a type of adhesive plaster, formerly made of various plant juices, but later containing lead oxide and glycerin
- ephoralty — an ephor's office
- epochally — In an epochal manner.
- foolhardy — recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
- goatishly — In a goatish way.
- haemolyse — to break down red blood cells so that haemoglobin is released
- hagiology — the branch of literature dealing with the lives and legends of the saints.
- halcyonic — calm; peaceful; tranquil: halcyon weather.
- halomancy — Divination by use of salt. This is the origin for the superstition of spilled salt.
- halophily — the ability or predisposition to thrive in an extremely salty environment
- halophyte — a plant that thrives in saline soil.
- haplology — the omission of one of two similar adjacent syllables or sounds in a word, as in substituting morphonemic for morphophonemic or in the pronunciation [prob-lee] /ˈprɒb li/ (Show IPA) for probably.
- haplotype — Genetics. a combination of closely linked DNA sequences on one chromosome that are often inherited together: By comparing haplotypes of a mother and father with those of a fetus, scientists can study how new genetic changes arise.
- heavy oil — a hydrocarbon mixture, heavier than water, distilled from coal tar
- 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.
- hippolyta — a queen of the Amazons, variously said to have been killed by Hercules or to have been conquered and married by Theseus.
- hold sway — have influence
- holidayed — Simple past tense and past participle of holiday.
- holidayer — vacationer.
- holly oak — holm oak.
- holy lamb — paschal lamb (def 4).
- holy land — Palestine (def 1).
- holy mary — Christianity: mother of Jesus
- holy wars — [Usenet, but may predate it] flame wars over religious issues. The paper by Danny Cohen that popularised the terms big-endian and little-endian was entitled "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace". Other perennial Holy Wars have included Emacs vs. vi, my personal computer vs. everyone else's personal computer, ITS vs. Unix, Unix vs. VMS, BSD Unix vs. USG Unix, C vs. Pascal, C vs. Fortran, etc., ad nauseam. The characteristic that distinguishes holy wars from normal technical disputes is that in a holy wars most of the participants spend their time trying to pass off personal value choices and cultural attachments as objective technical evaluations. See also theology.
- holy year — a jubilee year.
- homiliary — a collection of homilies.
- homoallyl — (organic chemistry, often in combination) the univalent radical CH2=CH-CH2-CH2-.
- homoplasy — correspondence in form or structure, owing to a similar environment.
- homotypal — of normal type
- honorably — in accordance with or characterized by principles of honor; upright: They were all honorable men.
- horseplay — rough or boisterous play or pranks.
- humorally — in a humoral manner or from a humoral point of view
- hyalomere — the transparent part of a blood platelet, surrounding the chromomere.
- hyalonema — a species of sponge with a long stem made up of long, twisted glass-like fibres
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