9-letter words containing h, o, l, i, g
- hoggishly — In a hoggish manner.
- 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.
- hollering — to cry aloud; shout; yell: Quit hollering into the phone.
- hollowing — having a space or cavity inside; not solid; empty: a hollow sphere.
- hologynic — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in females (opposed to holandric).
- homegirls — Plural form of homegirl.
- homologic — Homological.
- hooligans — Plural form of hooligan.
- horologic — of or relating to horology.
- hot light — a powerful light used in television production.
- hotelling — (in office management) a practice in which desk space must be booked in advance by an employee as required
- housegirl — A young woman employed to do housework.
- hovelling — A method of securing a good draught in chimneys by covering the top, leaving openings in the sides, or by carrying up two of the sides higher than the other two.
- howlingly — producing or uttering a howling noise: a howling mob.
- hygiology — The science of the preservation of health.
- ichnology — the branch of paleontology concerned with the study of fossilized tracks, trails, burrows, borings, or other trace fossils as evidence of the occurrence or behavior of the organisms that produced them.
- inholding — a tract of land under private ownership within a national park.
- joshingly — In a joshing manner; teasingly.
- light box — a boxlike object having a uniformly lighted surface, as of ground glass, against which films or transparencies can be held for examination.
- light out — to get down or descend, as from a horse or a vehicle.
- lightboat — a small lightship.
- lightfoot — (poetic) Light-footed.
- lightsome — emitting or reflecting light; luminous.
- lightwood — Also called fatwood. kindling.
- lithology — Geology. (loosely) petrology. the physical characteristics of a rock or stratigraphic unit.
- loathings — Plural form of loathing.
- logarithm — the exponent of the power to which a base number must be raised to equal a given number; log: 2 is the logarithm of 100 to the base 10 (2 = log10 100).
- logogriph — an anagram, or a puzzle involving anagrams.
- logophile — a lover of words.
- lohengrin — the son of Parzival, and a knight of the Holy Grail.
- longhairs — Plural form of longhair.
- longships — Plural form of longship.
- lovelight — A fond expression of love in a person's eyes.
- lowlights — Plural form of lowlight.
- megilloth — Slang. a lengthy, detailed explanation or account: Just give me the facts, not the whole megillah. a lengthy and tediously complicated situation or matter.
- monthling — a baby or a thing that is one month old
- moonlight — the light of the moon.
- negrophil — a white or other nonblack person who is especially sympathetic to or supportive of black people.
- night owl — a person who often stays up late at night; nighthawk.
- night-owl — a person who often stays up late at night; nighthawk.
- nightglow — a dim light from the upper atmosphere caused by emissions from atoms and molecules ionized by solar radiation: observed at night (nightglow) during the day (dayglow) and at twilight (twilight glow) with each having slightly different characteristics.
- nightlong — lasting all night: a nightlong snowfall.
- nightsoil — Alternative spelling of night soil.
- ogreishly — in the manner of an ogre
- oligarchs — Plural form of oligarch.
- oligarchy — a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few.
- ophiology — the branch of herpetology dealing with snakes.
- oughtlins — in the least; to the least degree.
- overlight — a strong light