9-letter words containing h, e, l, i, o
- lithesome — bending readily; pliant; limber; supple; flexible: the lithe body of a ballerina.
- lithopone — a white pigment consisting of zinc sulfide, barium sulfate, and some zinc oxide, used as a pigment and filler in the manufacture of paints, inks, leather, paper, linoleum, and face powders.
- lithosere — a sere originating on rock.
- lithotome — an instrument used in a lithotomy operation, to remove bladder stones
- loaferish — (of a person) idle, lazy
- logophile — a lover of words.
- lohengrin — the son of Parzival, and a knight of the Holy Grail.
- lovechild — A child born to parents who aren't married to one another.
- lovelight — A fond expression of love in a person's eyes.
- lowlihead — lowly state; lowliness.
- lyophiled — (of blood, serum, tissue, etc) freeze-dried
- megilloth — Slang. a lengthy, detailed explanation or account: Just give me the facts, not the whole megillah. a lengthy and tediously complicated situation or matter.
- mesophile — mesophilic.
- michelson — Albert Abraham, 1852–1931, U.S. physicist, born in Prussia (now Poland): Nobel prize 1907.
- millhouse — a building that houses milling machinery, especially of flour.
- molehills — Plural form of molehill.
- molochise — sacrifice to deity
- molochize — to offer up or immolate to a god
- monthlies — pertaining to a month, or to each month.
- mouthlike — Resembling a mouth or some aspect of one.
- mycophile — A person who likes hunting for, cooking or eating mushrooms and other edible fungi.
- nahcolite — a carbonate mineral, naturally occurring sodium bicarbonate, NaHCO 3 .
- necrophil — person who is sexually attracted to dead bodies
- negrophil — a white or other nonblack person who is especially sympathetic to or supportive of black people.
- nemophila — any of a genus, Nemophila, of low-growing hairy annual plants, esp N. menziesii, grown for its blue or white flowers: family Hydrophyllaceae
- neolithic — (sometimes lowercase) Anthropology. of, relating to, or characteristic of the last phase of the Stone Age, marked by the domestication of animals, the development of agriculture, and the manufacture of pottery and textiles: commonly thought to have begun c9000–8000 b.c. in the Middle East. Compare Mesolithic, Paleolithic.
- neophilia — Love of new things.
- nine-hole — (of a golf course) having nine holes; relating to a course having nine holes
- nineholes — a game in which the ground, or another object, is drilled with nine holes, each with its own scoring value, and a ball is rolled into them
- oenophile — a person who enjoys wines, usually as a connoisseur.
- oenophily — a liking for or expert knowledge of wine
- ogreishly — in the manner of an ogre
- oil shale — a black or dark-brown shale or siltstone rich in bitumens, from which shale oil is obtained by destructive distillation.
- oil sheik — a sheik who is involved in or who controls the supply of petroleum from Arab countries to other countries
- old delhi — Delhi (def 2).
- ophiolite — an assemblage of mafic igneous rocks representing remnants of former oceanic crust.
- overchill — to make too cold
- overhaile — to draw (a covering) over
- overlight — a strong light
- paleolith — a paleolithic stone implement.
- parhelion — a bright circular spot on a solar halo; a mock sun: usually one of two or more such spots seen on opposite sides of the sun, and often accompanied by additional luminous arcs and bands.
- pedophile — an adult who is sexually attracted to young children.
- phacolite — a colorless variety of chabazite.
- phaseolin — a type of proteid that is present in the kidney bean
- phelonion — a liturgical vestment resembling a chasuble.
- phenolics — any of the class of thermosetting resins formed by the condensation of phenol, or of a phenol derivative, with an aldehyde, especially formaldehyde: used chiefly in the manufacture of paints and plastics and as adhesives for sandpaper and plywood.
- phenolion — phelonion.
- philhorse — the horse, in a group of horses that are used to pull a carriage etc, which is at the back and nearest the object being pulled
- philomela — the nightingale.
- philopena — a custom, presumably of German origin, in which two persons share the kernels of a nut and determine that one shall receive a forfeit from the other at a later time upon the saying of a certain word or the performance of a certain action.