9-letter words containing h, a, r, s, l
- hairslide — A clip that is used to keep a woman's hair in position.
- hairstyle — a style of cutting, arranging, or combing the hair; hairdo; coiffure.
- half rest — a rest equal in time value to a half note.
- halliards — Plural form of halliard.
- hallmarks — Plural form of hallmark.
- haloforms — Plural form of haloform.
- handrails — Plural form of handrail.
- hard lens — a contact lens of rigid plastic or silicon, exerting light pressure on the cornea of the eye, used for correcting various vision problems including astigmatism.
- hard sell — aggressive sales
- hard-sell — characterized by or promoted through a hard sell: hard-sell tactics.
- hardlines — (business) Plural form of hardline.
- harebells — Plural form of harebell.
- harestail — a species of cotton grass, Eriophorum vaginatum, more tussocky than common cotton grass and having only a single flower head
- harigalds — the intestines of an animal
- harp seal — a northern earless seal, Pagophilus groenlandicus, with pale-yellow fur darkening to gray with age, of coasts, drifting ice, and seas of the North Atlantic Ocean, hunted for its fur.
- hasdrubal — died 207 b.c, Carthaginian general (brother of Hannibal).
- havildars — Plural form of havildar.
- headrails — Plural form of headrail.
- heartless — unfeeling; unkind; unsympathetic; harsh; cruel: heartless words; a heartless ruler.
- hellwards — towards hell
- heraclius — a.d. 575?–641, Byzantine emperor 610–641.
- 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.
- hesternal — (rare) Of or pertaining to yesterday.
- hilarious — arousing great merriment; extremely funny: a hilarious story; a hilarious old movie.
- hissarlik — the modern name of the site of ancient Troy.
- holograms — Plural form of hologram.
- 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.
- horntails — Plural form of horntail.
- 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.
- housecarl — a member of the household troops or bodyguard of a Danish or early English king or noble.
- hydraulus — a pipe organ of ancient Greece and Rome using water pressure to maintain the air supply.
- hydrolase — an enzyme that catalyzes hydrolysis.
- karlsruhe — a city in SW Germany: capital of the former state of Baden.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- loaferish — (of a person) idle, lazy
- loanshark — Alternative spelling of loan shark.
- longhairs — Plural form of longhair.