9-letter words containing h, e, l, i, o
- hierology — literature or learning regarding sacred things.
- hobnailed — furnished with hobnails.
- hodiernal — (rare) Of or pertaining to the current day.
- hold fire — If you hold fire in a situation, you delay before taking action.
- holderlin — Johann Christian Friedrich [yoh-hahn kris-tee-ahn free-drikh] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈkrɪs tiˌɑn ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1770–1843, German poet.
- hole high — at a spot on or near the green that is as far as the hole is from where the ball was hit
- hole-high — (of a ball) lying on a point almost even with the hole.
- holidayed — Simple past tense and past participle of holiday.
- holidayer — vacationer.
- holinesse — Obsolete spelling of holiness.
- holinshed — Raphael, died c1580, English chronicler.
- hollering — to cry aloud; shout; yell: Quit hollering into the phone.
- hollister — a town in W California.
- holocrine — (of a gland) releasing a secretion that is a product of disintegrating cells.
- holy tide — a time or season for special religious observance
- home life — a person's life at home; private life
- homebuilt — Constructed at home, rather than being obtained from a manufacturer etc.
- homegirls — Plural form of homegirl.
- homeliest — lacking in physical attractiveness; not beautiful; unattractive: a homely child.
- homeslice — Alternative spelling of home slice (Someone from one's home town.).
- homiletic — of or relating to preaching or to homilies.
- homophile — a homosexual.
- honeylike — Like honey in taste, texture, or appearance.
- horotelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate standard for a given group of plants or animals.
- horribley — Misspelling of horribly.
- horselike — a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.
- horsetail — Also called scouring rush. any nonflowering plant of the genus Equisetum, having hollow, jointed stems.
- hospitale — a place of lodging
- hostilely — of, relating to, or characteristic of an enemy: a hostile nation.
- hoteliers — Plural form of hotelier.
- hotelling — (in office management) a practice in which desk space must be booked in advance by an employee as required
- housegirl — A young woman employed to do housework.
- houseline — light cordage used for seizing.
- hovelling — A method of securing a good draught in chimneys by covering the top, leaving openings in the sides, or by carrying up two of the sides higher than the other two.
- hydrolize — (intransitive) To undergo hydrolization.
- in a hole — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
- innholder — innkeeper.
- iodophile — taking an intense iodine stain
- isohaline — a line on a map of the ocean connecting all points of equal salinity.
- isohyetal — a line drawn on a map connecting points having equal rainfall at a certain time or for a stated period.
- isopleths — Plural form of isopleth.
- jailhouse — a jail or building used as a jail.
- kilohertz — a unit of frequency, equal to 1000 cycles per second. Abbreviation: kHz.
- lemonfish — the cobia.
- lexophile — A lover of words, especially in word games, puzzles, anagrams, palindromes, etc.
- lichenous — of, relating to, or resembling a lichen.
- lightsome — emitting or reflecting light; luminous.
- limehound — Alternative form of lyam-hound.
- limehouse — a dock district in the East End of London, England, once notorious for its squalor: formerly a Chinese quarter.
- lionheart — a person of exceptional courage and bravery.