9-letter words containing h, e, s, l
- housefuls — Plural form of houseful.
- housegirl — A young woman employed to do housework.
- household — the people of a house collectively; a family including its servants.
- houseleek — Also called old-man-and-old-woman. a succulent plant, Sempervivum tectorum, of the stonecrop family, native to Europe, having reddish flowers and leaves forming dense basal rosettes.
- houseless — without a house or houses.
- houseline — light cordage used for seizing.
- hugeously — hugely
- humblesse — humbleness, humility, or abasement
- humorless — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- hustle up — to prepare quickly
- hydrogels — Plural form of hydrogel.
- hydrolase — an enzyme that catalyzes hydrolysis.
- hydrolyse — Alternative spelling of hydrolyze.
- hylobates — Plural form of hylobate.
- hymeneals — (plurale tantum) Nuptials.
- hypostyle — having many columns carrying the roof or ceiling: a hypostyle hall.
- ice shelf — an ice sheet projecting into coastal waters so that the end floats.
- inshelter — to put in a shelter
- irish elk — an extinct deerlike mammal of the genus Megaceros (Megaloceros), of the Pleistocene Epoch, having in the male extremely large, broad antlers.
- 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.
- jellyfish — any of various marine coelenterates of a soft, gelatinous structure, especially one with an umbrellalike body and long, trailing tentacles; medusa.
- jewelfish — a brightly colored cichlid fish, Hemichromis bimaculatus, native to Africa: popular in home aquariums.
- karlsruhe — a city in SW Germany: capital of the former state of Baden.
- keelhauls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of keelhaul.
- klephtism — the activities or life of klephts
- kneeholes — Plural form of kneehole.
- knotholes — Plural form of knothole.
- kolkhozes — Plural form of kolkhoz.
- la chaise — Père François d'Aix de [frahn-swa de duh] /frɑ̃ˈswa dɛ də/ (Show IPA), 1624–1709, French Roman Catholic priest: confessor to Louis XIV.
- lakehurst — a borough in E New Jersey: naval air station; dirigible hangar.
- lakeshore — lakefront.
- lampshade — a shade, usually translucent or opaque, for shielding the glare of a light source in a lamp or for directing the light to a particular area.
- lampshell — Alternative form of lamp shell.
- lash line — a rope or cord for lashing together the edges of two flats or other pieces of theatrical scenery.
- 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.
- latchkeys — Plural form of latchkey.
- laughsome — (rare) Exciting laughter; also, addicted to laughter; merry.
- laughters — the action or sound of laughing.
- launchers — Plural form of launcher.
- leachates — Plural form of leachate.
- lead shot — small round pellets of lead, used in cartridges
- leasehold — property acquired under a lease.
- leash law — a local ordinance requiring that dogs be leashed when not on their owners' property.
- lecherous — given to or characterized by lechery; lustful.
- lee shore — a shore toward which the wind blows.
- lemonfish — the cobia.
- lengthens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lengthen.