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

  • hear tell — to be told (about); learn (of)
  • heartedly — having a specified kind of heart (now used only in combination): hardhearted; sad-hearted.
  • heartfelt — deeply or sincerely felt: heartfelt sympathy.
  • heartland — the part of a region considered essential to the viability and survival of the whole, especially a central land area relatively invulnerable to attack and capable of economic and political self-sufficiency.
  • heartleaf — Wild ginger, Asarum caudatum.
  • heartless — unfeeling; unkind; unsympathetic; harsh; cruel: heartless words; a heartless ruler.
  • heartling — a term of endearment, little heart
  • helengrad — a satirical name for Wellington as the seat of Helen Clark's socialist government from 1999 to 2008
  • heliogram — a message sent by a heliograph.
  • hellwards — towards hell
  • hemelytra — one of the forewings of a true bug, having a hard, thick basal portion and a thinner, membranous apex.
  • heraclius — a.d. 575?–641, Byzantine emperor 610–641.
  • heraklion — Iraklion
  • heralding — (formerly) a royal or official messenger, especially one representing a monarch in an ambassadorial capacity during wartime.
  • herbalism — The study or practice of the medicinal and therapeutic use of plants, now especially as a form of alternative medicine.
  • herbalist — a person who collects or deals in herbs, especially medicinal herbs.
  • herculean — requiring the great strength of a Hercules; very hard to perform: Digging the tunnel was a herculean task.
  • 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.
  • hexameral — hexamerous.
  • heyerdahl — Thor [too r] /tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1914–2002, Norwegian ethnologist and author.
  • hilarious — arousing great merriment; extremely funny: a hilarious story; a hilarious old movie.
  • hildegard — a female given name: from Germanic words meaning “battle” and “protector.”.
  • hill farm — a farm in a high area, usually concentrating on sheep, because of the lack of winter fodder
  • hillerman — Tony, 1925–2008, U.S. novelist and anthropologist.
  • hissarlik — the modern name of the site of ancient Troy.
  • hitlerian — of or relating to Adolf Hitler or his regime
  • hodiernal — (rare) Of or pertaining to the current day.
  • hogwaller — Alternative spelling of hog waller.
  • holandric — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in males (opposed to hologynic).
  • 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
  • hole card — Stud Poker. the card dealt face down in the first round of a deal.
  • holidayer — vacationer.
  • hollander — John, 1929–2013, U.S. poet and critic.
  • holloware — silver dishes, as serving dishes, having some depth (distinguished from flatware).
  • holograms — Plural form of hologram.
  • holograph — Also, holographic [hol-uh-graf-ik, hoh-luh-] /ˌhɒl əˈgræf ɪk, ˌhoʊ lə-/ (Show IPA), holographical. wholly written by the person in whose name it appears: a holograph letter.
  • 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.
  • homer lea — Homer, 1876–1912, U.S. soldier and author: adviser 1911–12 to Sun Yat-sen in China.
  • homiliary — a collection of homilies.
  • homopolar — of uniform polarity; not separated or changed into ions; not polar in activity.
  • 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.
  • horizonal — relating to the horizon
  • horntails — Plural form of horntail.
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