9-letter words containing h, e, l, i, o
- echolalic — (clinical psychology) Of or pertaining to echolalia.
- eightfoil — an eight-leaved flower shape
- eightfold — Eight times as great or as numerous.
- enchorial — Indigenous, native.
- ethmoidal — Ethmoid.
- euchloric — relating to euchlorine
- europhile — One who loves Europe, Europeans, or European culture.
- ex nihilo — out of nothing
- fish pole — fishing pole.
- fish-pole — a long tapered flexible pole, often in jointed sections, for use with a fishing line and, usually, a reel
- five hole — the opening between a goaltender's parted legs.
- geophilic — soil-loving
- ghostlier — Comparative form of ghostly.
- ghostlike — the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
- globefish — puffer (def 2).
- guilloche — an ornamental pattern or border, as in architecture, consisting of paired ribbons or lines flowing in interlaced curves around a series of circular voids.
- hailstone — a pellet of hail.
- halocline — a well-defined vertical salinity gradient in ocean or other saline water.
- halophile — any organism, as certain halobacteria and marine bacteria, that requires a salt-rich environment for its growth and survival.
- hariolate — to practise divination or to prophesy
- heavy oil — a hydrocarbon mixture, heavier than water, distilled from coal tar
- heilbronn — a city in N Baden-Württemberg, in SW Germany.
- heinously — hateful; odious; abominable; totally reprehensible: a heinous offense.
- heirlooms — Plural form of heirloom.
- heliborne — transported by helicopter: heliborne troops.
- helicoids — Plural form of helicoid.
- heliconia — any of a genus of tropical flowering plants with long flowering panicles
- helidrome — a small airport for helicopters
- heliodors — Plural form of heliodor.
- heliogram — a message sent by a heliograph.
- heliology — the study of the sun
- heliopsis — a genus of herbaceous flowering plant in the daisy family Asteraceae
- heliostat — an instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, for reflecting the sun's rays in a fixed direction.
- heliotype — A picture obtained by the process of heliotypy.
- heliozoan — a protozoan of the order Heliozoa, having a spherical body and radiating pseudopods.
- heliozoic — denoting or relating to a heliozoan
- helipilot — a helicopter pilot
- heliports — Plural form of heliport.
- helistops — Plural form of helistop.
- helsingor — a seaport on NE Zealand, in NE Denmark: the scene of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
- hemolysin — a substance, as an antibody, that in cooperation with complement causes dissolution of red blood cells.
- hemolysis — the breaking down of red blood cells with liberation of hemoglobin.
- hemolytic — the breaking down of red blood cells with liberation of hemoglobin.
- hemophile — a hemophiliac.
- heraklion — Iraklion
- hexaploid — having a chromosome number that is six times the haploid number.
- hideously — horrible or frightful to the senses; repulsive; very ugly: a hideous monster.
- hideyhole — Alternative spelling of hidey-hole.
- hidy-hole — a hiding place
- hierodule — a slave in service in an ancient Greek temple.