9-letter words containing h, e, r, a, l
- heraclius — a.d. 575?–641, Byzantine emperor 610–641.
- heraklion — Iraklion
- heralding — (formerly) a royal or official messenger, especially one representing a monarch in an ambassadorial capacity during wartime.
- 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.
- herculean — requiring the great strength of a Hercules; very hard to perform: Digging the tunnel was a herculean task.
- heretical — of, relating to, or characteristic of heretics or heresy.
- heritable — capable of being inherited; inheritable; hereditary.
- heritably — In a heritable manner.
- hesternal — (rare) Of or pertaining to yesterday.
- hexameral — hexamerous.
- heyerdahl — Thor [too r] /tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1914–2002, Norwegian ethnologist and author.
- hildegard — a female given name: from Germanic words meaning “battle” and “protector.”.
- hillerman — Tony, 1925–2008, U.S. novelist and anthropologist.
- hitlerian — of or relating to Adolf Hitler or his regime
- hodiernal — (rare) Of or pertaining to the current day.
- hogwaller — Alternative spelling of hog waller.
- holderbat — a bracket that supports a pipe and fastens it to a wall or surface
- hole card — Stud Poker. the card dealt face down in the first round of a deal.
- holidayer — vacationer.
- hollander — John, 1929–2013, U.S. poet and critic.
- holloware — silver dishes, as serving dishes, having some depth (distinguished from flatware).
- holy year — a jubilee year.
- homer lea — Homer, 1876–1912, U.S. soldier and author: adviser 1911–12 to Sun Yat-sen in China.
- honorable — in accordance with or characterized by principles of honor; upright: They were all honorable men.
- horseplay — rough or boisterous play or pranks.
- horsetail — Also called scouring rush. any nonflowering plant of the genus Equisetum, having hollow, jointed stems.
- hourplate — the dial of a clock or watch
- housecarl — a member of the household troops or bodyguard of a Danish or early English king or noble.
- hundredal — Of or pertaining to a hundred (administrative unit).
- hyalomere — the transparent part of a blood platelet, surrounding the chromomere.
- hyder ali — 1722–82, Islamic prince and military leader of India: ruler of Mysore 1759–82.
- hydrolase — an enzyme that catalyzes hydrolysis.
- hyperbola — the set of points in a plane whose distances to two fixed points in the plane have a constant difference; a curve consisting of two distinct and similar branches, formed by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone when the plane makes a greater angle with the base than does the generator of the cone. Equation: x 2 /a 2 − y 2 /b 2 = ±1.
- hyperreal — Exaggerated in comparison to reality.
- hypertalk — A verbose semicompiled language by Bill Atkinson and Dan Winkler, with loose syntax and high readability. HyperTalk uses HyperCard as an object management system, development environment and interface builder. Programs are organised into "stacks" of "cards", each of which may have "buttons" and "fields". All data storage is in zero-terminated strings in fields, local, or global variables; all data references are through "chunk expressions" of the form: 'last item of background field "Name List" of card ID 34217'. Flow of control is event-driven and uses message-passing among scripts that are attached to stack, background, card, field and button objects.
- hypethral — (of a classical building) wholly or partly open to the sky.
- karlsruhe — a city in SW Germany: capital of the former state of Baden.
- laberinth — (obsolete) labyrinth.
- laberynth — Obsolete spelling of labyrinth.
- lakehurst — a borough in E New Jersey: naval air station; dirigible hangar.
- lakeshore — lakefront.
- larghetto — a larghetto movement.
- 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.
- later han — the Han dynasty after the interregnum a.d. 9–25.
- lathering — foam or froth made by a detergent, especially soap, when stirred or rubbed in water, as by a brush used in shaving or by hands in washing.
- laughters — the action or sound of laughing.
- launchers — Plural form of launcher.
- leathered — Simple past tense and past participle of leather.
- lehrjahre — an apprenticeship