9-letter words containing h, o, l, i
- homeslice — Alternative spelling of home slice (Someone from one's home town.).
- homicidal — of or relating to homicide.
- homiletic — of or relating to preaching or to homilies.
- homiliary — a collection of homilies.
- homologic — Homological.
- homolysis — (chemistry) The decomposition of a substance without reacting with other substances.
- homolytic — Of, pertaining to, or produced by homolysis.
- homophile — a homosexual.
- homophily — The tendency of individuals to associate with others of the same kind.
- homoploid — of an organism or a cell whose set of chromosomes exhibits the same degree of ploidy as an organism or cell with which it is compared.
- homunculi — an artificially made dwarf, supposedly produced in a flask by an alchemist.
- honeylike — Like honey in taste, texture, or appearance.
- hooligans — Plural form of hooligan.
- horizonal — relating to the horizon
- hornbills — Plural form of hornbill.
- horntails — Plural form of horntail.
- horologic — of or relating to horology.
- 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.
- horsetail — Also called scouring rush. any nonflowering plant of the genus Equisetum, having hollow, jointed stems.
- hospitale — a place of lodging
- hospitals — Plural form of hospital.
- hostilely — of, relating to, or characteristic of an enemy: a hostile nation.
- hostility — a hostile state, condition, or attitude; enmity; antagonism; unfriendliness.
- hot light — a powerful light used in television production.
- hoteliers — Plural form of hotelier.
- 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.
- houseline — light cordage used for seizing.
- 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.
- hydrofoil — Naval Architecture. a surface form creating a thrust against water in a direction perpendicular to the plane approximated by the surface.
- hydrolize — (intransitive) To undergo hydrolization.
- hygiology — The science of the preservation of health.
- hylozoism — the doctrine that matter is inseparable from life, which is a property of matter.
- hyolithid — any invertebrate of the extinct genus Hyolithes, most common in the Cambrian Period, having a limy, univalve shell, and thought to be related to the pteropods.
- hypnoidal — characterizing a state that resembles mild hypnosis but that is usually induced by other than hypnotic means.
- hypoploid — having a chromosome number that is less than the diploid number.
- 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.
- ill humor — a disagreeable or surly mood.
- in a hole — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
- inhalator — an apparatus designed to mix carbon dioxide and oxygen, especially for use in artificial respiration.
- inholding — a tract of land under private ownership within a national park.
- innholder — innkeeper.
- iodophile — taking an intense iodine stain
- 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.
- isophotal — relating to an isophote or isophotes, or to a diagram on which isophotes are represented
- isopleths — Plural form of isopleth.