9-letter words containing h, i, e, l
- hexaploid — having a chromosome number that is six times the haploid number.
- hideously — horrible or frightful to the senses; repulsive; very ugly: a hideous monster.
- hideyhole — Alternative spelling of hidey-hole.
- hidy-hole — a hiding place
- hierodule — a slave in service in an ancient Greek temple.
- hierology — literature or learning regarding sacred things.
- high life — You use the high life to refer to an exciting and luxurious way of living that involves a great deal of entertainment, going to parties, and eating good food.
- highflier — a person who is extravagant or goes to extremes in aims, pretensions, opinions, etc.
- highflyer — Alternative form of highflier.
- highliest — Superlative form of highly.
- highlited — Misspelling of highlighted.
- highlites — Misspelling of highlights.
- hildegard — a female given name: from Germanic words meaning “battle” and “protector.”.
- hillcrest — The crest of a hill.
- hillerman — Tony, 1925–2008, U.S. novelist and anthropologist.
- hilliness — The property of being hilly or having hills.
- hillsdale — a town in NE New Jersey.
- hillsides — Plural form of hillside.
- hilversum — a city in central Netherlands.
- hindafell — Hindfell.
- hiplength — reaching to or covering the hips, as clothing: a hiplength sweater.
- hirelings — Plural form of hireling.
- hitlerian — of or relating to Adolf Hitler or his regime
- hitlerism — the doctrines, principles, and practices of the Nazi party, especially as developed by Hitler; Nazism.
- hitlerite — an advocate or a follower of Hitlerism.
- 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.