9-letter words containing h, e, l, o
- eightfold — Eight times as great or as numerous.
- eleuthero — (informal) The shrub Eleutherococcus senticosus, used in traditional medicine.
- elkhounds — Plural form of elkhound.
- ellsworth — Lincoln1880-1951; U.S. polar explorer
- enchorial — Indigenous, native.
- endolymph — The fluid in the membranous labyrinth of the ear.
- ephoralty — an ephor's office
- epochally — In an epochal manner.
- ethmoidal — Ethmoid.
- ethnolect — A language variety specific to an ethnic group.
- ethnology — The study of the characteristics of various peoples and the differences and relationships between them.
- euchloric — relating to euchlorine
- euchology — a euchologion
- eulachons — Plural form of eulachon.
- europhile — One who loves Europe, Europeans, or European culture.
- ex nihilo — out of nothing
- facecloth — washcloth.
- falsehood — a false statement; lie. Synonyms: fabrication, prevarication, falsification, canard, invention, fiction, story.
- ferhoodle — to confuse or mix up: Don't ferhoodle the things in that drawer.
- 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.
- flashover — Electricity. a disruptive discharge around or over the surface of a solid or liquid insulator.
- flesh out — the soft substance of a human or other animal body, consisting of muscle and fat.
- fleshhood — the state of being in the flesh or having flesh (as opposed to being purely spiritual)
- fleshhook — a hook for use in lifting meat, as from a pot.
- fleshpots — fleshpots. places offering luxurious and unrestrained pleasure or amusement: the fleshpots of Las Vegas. luxurious and unrestrained living.
- fleshworm — a flesh-eating worm, specifically the parasitic larva of any member of the genus Sarcophagidae
- floorhead — the upper side of a floor timber on a boat or ship
- flophouse — a cheap, run-down hotel or rooming house.
- folk hero — a hero to the common people of a country
- forecloth — a cloth hung over the front of something, esp an altar
- freeholds — Plural form of freehold.
- from hell — You can use from hell after a noun when you are emphasizing that something or someone is extremely unpleasant or evil.
- frothless — without froth
- gasholder — gasometer (def 2).
- 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).
- gloryhole — (nonstandard,rare) To have sex through a glory hole.
- go halves — plural of half.
- goulashes — Plural form of goulash.
- 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.
- gunk hole — a quiet anchorage, as in a cove, used by small yachts.
- gütersloh — a town in NW Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia. Pop: 95 928 (2003 est)
- haemocoel — (biology) A cavity, between the organs of arthropods and mollusks, through which the blood etc. circulates.
- haemolyse — to break down red blood cells so that haemoglobin is released
- hailstone — a pellet of hail.
- halesowen — a town in W central England, in Dudley unitary authority, West Midlands. Pop: 55 273 (2001)