9-letter words containing h, y, l
- holidayed — Simple past tense and past participle of holiday.
- holidayer — vacationer.
- holly oak — holm oak.
- hollyhock — any of several plants belonging to the genus Alcea (or Althaea), of the mallow family, native to Eurasia, especially A. rosea, a tall plant having a long cluster of showy, variously colored flowers.
- hollywood — the NW part of Los Angeles, Calif.: center of the American motion-picture industry.
- hologynic — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in females (opposed to holandric).
- holohedry — The condition of a crystal whose point group is identical to that of its lattice.
- holophyte — (of a plant) obtaining energy by synthesizing inorganic substances; autotrophic.
- holotypes — Plural form of holotype.
- holotypic — Relating to a holotype.
- holy city — a city regarded as particularly sacred by the adherents of a religious faith, as Jerusalem by Jews and Christians, Mecca and Medina by Muslims, and Varanasi by Hindus.
- holy hour — an hour set aside for prayer and reflection
- holy lamb — paschal lamb (def 4).
- holy land — Palestine (def 1).
- holy mary — Christianity: mother of Jesus
- holy rood — the cross on which Jesus died.
- holy tide — a time or season for special religious observance
- holy wars — [Usenet, but may predate it] flame wars over religious issues. The paper by Danny Cohen that popularised the terms big-endian and little-endian was entitled "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace". Other perennial Holy Wars have included Emacs vs. vi, my personal computer vs. everyone else's personal computer, ITS vs. Unix, Unix vs. VMS, BSD Unix vs. USG Unix, C vs. Pascal, C vs. Fortran, etc., ad nauseam. The characteristic that distinguishes holy wars from normal technical disputes is that in a holy wars most of the participants spend their time trying to pass off personal value choices and cultural attachments as objective technical evaluations. See also theology.
- holy week — the week preceding Easter Sunday.
- holy writ — the Scriptures.
- holy year — a jubilee year.
- holystone — a block of soft sandstone used in scrubbing the decks of a ship.
- homestyle — simple and unpretentious, evoking the comforts of home: homestyle cooking; home-style hospitality.
- homiliary — a collection of homilies.
- homoallyl — (organic chemistry, often in combination) the univalent radical CH2=CH-CH2-CH2-.
- homolysis — (chemistry) The decomposition of a substance without reacting with other substances.
- homolytic — Of, pertaining to, or produced by homolysis.
- homophily — The tendency of individuals to associate with others of the same kind.
- homophyly — a resemblance due to common ancestry.
- homoplasy — correspondence in form or structure, owing to a similar environment.
- homostyly — (in plants) the condition of having all the flowers with styles of only one length, rather than of different lengths
- homotypal — of normal type
- 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.
- honorably — in accordance with or characterized by principles of honor; upright: They were all honorable men.
- hopefully — in a hopeful manner: We worked hopefully and energetically, thinking we might finish first.
- hoplology — the study of weapons or armour
- 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.
- horseplay — rough or boisterous play or pranks.
- hostilely — of, relating to, or characteristic of an enemy: a hostile nation.
- hostility — a hostile state, condition, or attitude; enmity; antagonism; unfriendliness.
- howlingly — producing or uttering a howling noise: a howling mob.
- huey long — Crawford Williamson [wil-yuh m-suh n] /ˈwɪl yəm sən/ (Show IPA), 1815–78, U.S. surgeon.
- hugeously — hugely
- humorally — in a humoral manner or from a humoral point of view
- humoredly — (only in combination with good, bad or ill) American standard spelling of humouredly.
- hurriedly — moving or working rapidly, especially forced or required to hurry, as a person.
- hurtfully — In a hurtful manner.