9-letter words containing h, o, l, e
- hollander — John, 1929–2013, U.S. poet and critic.
- hollering — to cry aloud; shout; yell: Quit hollering into the phone.
- hollister — a town in W California.
- holloware — silver dishes, as serving dishes, having some depth (distinguished from flatware).
- hollowest — Superlative form of hollow.
- holoclone — (biology) A colony-forming stem cell that has a higher growth potential than a meroclone because it does not contain differentiated cells.
- holocrine — (of a gland) releasing a secretion that is a product of disintegrating cells.
- holohedry — The condition of a crystal whose point group is identical to that of its lattice.
- holophote — an apparatus by which practically all the light from a lighthouse lamp or the like is thrown in a desired direction.
- holophyte — (of a plant) obtaining energy by synthesizing inorganic substances; autotrophic.
- holotypes — Plural form of holotype.
- holstered — a sheathlike carrying case for a firearm, attached to a belt, shoulder sling, or saddle.
- holy tide — a time or season for special religious observance
- holy week — the week preceding Easter Sunday.
- holy year — a jubilee year.
- holystone — a block of soft sandstone used in scrubbing the decks of a ship.
- home help — A home help is a person who is employed to visit sick or old people at home and help with their cleaning or cooking.
- home life — a person's life at home; private life
- home rule — self-government in local matters by a city, province, state, colony, or the like.
- homebuilt — Constructed at home, rather than being obtained from a manufacturer etc.
- homegirls — Plural form of homegirl.
- homelands — Plural form of homeland.
- homeliest — lacking in physical attractiveness; not beautiful; unattractive: a homely child.
- homeplace — a person's birthplace or family home.
- homer lea — Homer, 1876–1912, U.S. soldier and author: adviser 1911–12 to Sun Yat-sen in China.
- homeslice — Alternative spelling of home slice (Someone from one's home town.).
- homestall — Dialect. a farmyard.
- homestyle — simple and unpretentious, evoking the comforts of home: homestyle cooking; home-style hospitality.
- homiletic — of or relating to preaching or to homilies.
- homologue — something homologous.
- homophile — a homosexual.
- honeyless — without any honey
- honeylike — Like honey in taste, texture, or appearance.
- honeywell — (company) A US company known for its mainframes and operating systems. The company's history is long and tortuous, with many mergers, acquisitions and name changes. A company formed on 1886-04-23 to make furnace regulators eventually merged in 1927 with another company formed in 1904 by a young plumbing and heating engineer named Mark Honeywell who was perfecting the heat generator. A 1955 joint venture with Raytheon Corp., called Datamatic Corporation, marked Honeywell's entry into the computer business. Their first computer was the D-1000. In 1960 Honeywell bought out Raytheon's interest and the name changed to Electronic Data Processing (EDP) then in 1963 it was officially renamed Honeywell Inc. In 1970 Honeywell merged its computer business with General Electric's to form Honeywell Information Systems. In 1986 a joint venture with the french company Bull and japanese NEC Corporation created Honeywell Bull. By 1991 Honeywell had withdrawn from the computer business, focussing more on aeropspace. See also: brain-damaged.
- honorable — in accordance with or characterized by principles of honor; upright: They were all honorable men.
- honorless — honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
- hopefully — in a hopeful manner: We worked hopefully and energetically, thinking we might finish first.
- hordeolum — sty2 .
- horologer — A maker or seller of clocks and watches.
- horotelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate standard for a given group of plants or animals.
- horribley — Misspelling of horribly.
- horse fly — any bloodsucking, usually large fly of the family Tabanidae, especially of the genus Tabanus, a serious pest of horses, cattle, etc.
- horseless — (of a vehicle) not drawn by a horse or horses.
- 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.
- horseplay — rough or boisterous play or pranks.
- horsetail — Also called scouring rush. any nonflowering plant of the genus Equisetum, having hollow, jointed stems.
- hospitale — a place of lodging
- hostelers — Plural form of hosteler.
- hosteller — a person who operates a hostel.
- hostilely — of, relating to, or characteristic of an enemy: a hostile nation.