9-letter words containing h, o, t, r, l
- holarctic — belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising the Nearctic and Palearctic regions.
- hold true — If a general statement holds true in particular circumstances, or if your previous statement holds true in different circumstances, it is true or valid in those circumstances.
- holderbat — a bracket that supports a pipe and fastens it to a wall or surface
- hollister — a town in W California.
- holstered — a sheathlike carrying case for a firearm, attached to a belt, shoulder sling, or saddle.
- holy writ — the Scriptures.
- horntails — Plural form of horntail.
- horotelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate standard for a given group of plants or animals.
- horsetail — Also called scouring rush. any nonflowering plant of the genus Equisetum, having hollow, jointed stems.
- hostelers — Plural form of hosteler.
- hosteller — a person who operates a hostel.
- hoteliers — Plural form of hotelier.
- hourplate — the dial of a clock or watch
- hydrolant — an urgent warning of navigational dangers in the Atlantic Ocean, issued by the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office.
- hydrolyte — a substance subjected to hydrolysis.
- hydropult — a type of water pump or machine that expels water by means of hand power, as, for example, a fire extinguisher
- inhalator — an apparatus designed to mix carbon dioxide and oxygen, especially for use in artificial respiration.
- kilohertz — a unit of frequency, equal to 1000 cycles per second. Abbreviation: kHz.
- lanthorns — Plural form of lanthorn.
- larghetto — a larghetto movement.
- lionheart — a person of exceptional courage and bravery.
- lithosere — a sere originating on rock.
- 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).
- longworth — Alice Lee Roosevelt ("Princess Alice") 1884–1980, U.S. socialite: daughter of Theodore Roosevelt.
- lothair i — a.d. 795?–855, king of Germany 840–843; emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 840–855 (son of Louis I).
- lotharios — Plural form of lothario.
- macrolith — a stone tool about 1 foot (30 cm) long.
- microlith — a tiny stone tool, often of geometric shape, made from a bladelet and mounted singly or in series as the working part of a composite tool or weapon, especially during late Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic times.
- mortcloth — a funeral cloth spread over a coffin
- northerly — moving, directed, or situated toward the north.
- northlake — a city in NE Illinois: suburb of Chicago.
- northland — the land or region in the north.
- ochlocrat — An adherent of the principle of ochlocracy; a advocate of mob rule.
- ornithol. — ornithological
- overlight — a strong light
- plethoric — overfull; turgid; inflated: a plethoric, pompous speech.
- plowright — Dame Joan. born 1929, British actress, married to Laurence Olivier (1961–89)
- polyether — a polymeric ether.
- potholder — a thick piece of material, as a quilted or woven pad, used in handling hot pots and dishes.
- rhinolith — a calculus or stone formed in the nose which can lead to other medical conditions such as headaches or sinusitis
- rhodolite — a rose or reddish-violet garnet, similar to pyrope, used as a gem.
- rhyolitic — a fine-grained igneous rock rich in silica: the volcanic equivalent of granite.
- rosenthal — Jean, 1912–69, U.S. theatrical lighting designer.
- short leg — a fielding position on the leg side near the batsman's wicket
- shortfall — the quantity or extent by which something falls short; deficiency; shortage.
- shortlist — a list of those people or items preferred or most likely to be chosen, as winnowed from a longer list of possibilities.
- shortwall — pertaining to a means of extracting coal when the working face is about a third the length of the longwall system and mining is done by a continuous cutter rather than by longwall machinery.
- solothurn — a city in NW Switzerland, on the Aar River: capital of canton of Solothurn.
- southerly — a wind that blows from the south.
- stalworth — stalwart.