9-letter words containing h, a, r, l
- horseplay — rough or boisterous play or pranks.
- horsetail — Also called scouring rush. any nonflowering plant of the genus Equisetum, having hollow, jointed stems.
- hourglass — an instrument for measuring time, consisting of two bulbs of glass joined by a narrow passage through which a quantity of sand or mercury runs in just an hour.
- hourplate — the dial of a clock or watch
- housecarl — a member of the household troops or bodyguard of a Danish or early English king or noble.
- humorally — in a humoral manner or from a humoral point of view
- hundredal — Of or pertaining to a hundred (administrative unit).
- hyalomere — the transparent part of a blood platelet, surrounding the chromomere.
- hyder ali — 1722–82, Islamic prince and military leader of India: ruler of Mysore 1759–82.
- hydraulic — operated by, moved by, or employing water or other liquids in motion.
- hydraulus — a pipe organ of ancient Greece and Rome using water pressure to maintain the air supply.
- hydrolant — an urgent warning of navigational dangers in the Atlantic Ocean, issued by the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office.
- hydrolase — an enzyme that catalyzes hydrolysis.
- hyperbola — the set of points in a plane whose distances to two fixed points in the plane have a constant difference; a curve consisting of two distinct and similar branches, formed by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone when the plane makes a greater angle with the base than does the generator of the cone. Equation: x 2 /a 2 − y 2 /b 2 = ±1.
- hyperreal — Exaggerated in comparison to reality.
- 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.
- in-thrall — to captivate or charm: a performer whose grace, skill, and virtuosity enthrall her audiences.
- inhalator — an apparatus designed to mix carbon dioxide and oxygen, especially for use in artificial respiration.
- jalandhar — a city in N Punjab, in NW India.
- karlsruhe — a city in SW Germany: capital of the former state of Baden.
- laberinth — (obsolete) labyrinth.
- laberynth — Obsolete spelling of labyrinth.
- labryinth — Misspelling of labyrinth.
- labyrinth — an intricate combination of paths or passages in which it is difficult to find one's way or to reach the exit. Synonyms: maze, network, web.
- lachrymal — of or relating to tears.
- lagomorph — any member of the order Lagomorpha, comprising the hares, rabbits, and pikas, resembling the rodents but having two pairs of upper incisors.
- lairdship — the condition of being a laird, or the rank of laird
- lakehurst — a borough in E New Jersey: naval air station; dirigible hangar.
- lakeshore — lakefront.
- lampbrush — (rare) A form of brush, containing loops of material, used for dusting light fittings.
- landshark — a person who makes inordinate profits by buying and selling land
- lanthorns — Plural form of lanthorn.
- lap-chart — a log of every lap covered by each car in a race, showing the exact position throughout
- larghetto — a larghetto movement.
- lash rail — a rail, solidly fixed to the bulwarks of a vessel, to which objects on deck can be lashed.
- lasherism — (jargon, algorithm) (Harvard) A program that solves a standard problem (such as the Eight Queens Puzzle or implementing the life algorithm) in a deliberately nonstandard way. Distinguished from a crock or kluge by the fact that the programmer did it on purpose as a mental exercise. Such constructions are quite popular in exercises such as the Obfuscated C contest, and occasionally in retrocomputing. Lew Lasher was a student at Harvard around 1980 who became notorious for such behaviour.
- later han — the Han dynasty after the interregnum a.d. 9–25.
- lathering — foam or froth made by a detergent, especially soap, when stirred or rubbed in water, as by a brush used in shaving or by hands in washing.
- lathyrism — a disorder of humans and domestic animals caused by ingestion of the seeds of some legumes of the genus Lathyrus and marked by spastic paralysis and pain.
- laughters — the action or sound of laughing.
- launchers — Plural form of launcher.
- lcm chair — Eames chair (def 1).
- leathered — Simple past tense and past participle of leather.
- lehrjahre — an apprenticeship
- lethargic — of, relating to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish; apathetic.
- lexigraph — A lexigram or ideograph, a graphical depiction of a single word.
- light air — a wind of 1–3 miles per hour (0.5–1.3 m/sec).
- lightyear — Alternative spelling of light year.
- lionheart — a person of exceptional courage and bravery.