9-letter words containing l, a, y, e
- grey seal — a greyish species of earless seal, Halichoerus grypus
- greyscale — Alternative spelling of grayscale.
- guanylate — (biochemistry) any salt or ester of guanylic acid; the salts are used as flavour enhancers.
- guardedly — cautious; careful; prudent: to be guarded in one's speech.
- gyroplane — autogiro.
- haemolyse — to break down red blood cells so that haemoglobin is released
- hairstyle — a style of cutting, arranging, or combing the hair; hairdo; coiffure.
- half-year — a period of 6 months
- halfpenny — a bronze coin of the United Kingdom, equal to half a penny: use phased out in 1984.
- halophyte — a plant that thrives in saline soil.
- halysites — an extinct genus comprising the chain corals.
- haplessly — In a hapless manner.
- haplotype — Genetics. a combination of closely linked DNA sequences on one chromosome that are often inherited together: By comparing haplotypes of a mother and father with those of a fetus, scientists can study how new genetic changes arise.
- harpylike — resembling a harpy
- hastately — in a hastate manner
- hatefully — In a hateful manner.
- hayfields — Plural form of hayfield.
- healingly — in a healing manner, intended to heal
- healthily — possessing or enjoying good health or a sound and vigorous mentality: a healthy body; a healthy mind.
- heartedly — having a specified kind of heart (now used only in combination): hardhearted; sad-hearted.
- heavy oil — a hydrocarbon mixture, heavier than water, distilled from coal tar
- helically — pertaining to or having the form of a helix; spiral.
- hemelytra — one of the forewings of a true bug, having a hard, thick basal portion and a thinner, membranous apex.
- heptalogy — (rare) # A set of seven works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as seven individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
- heritably — In a heritable manner.
- hexastyle — having six columns, as a portico or the facade of a classical temple.
- heyerdahl — Thor [too r] /tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1914–2002, Norwegian ethnologist and author.
- holidayed — Simple past tense and past participle of holiday.
- holidayer — vacationer.
- holy year — a jubilee year.
- horseplay — rough or boisterous play or pranks.
- hyalinize — to become hyaline.
- hyalomere — the transparent part of a blood platelet, surrounding the chromomere.
- hyalonema — a species of sponge with a long stem made up of long, twisted glass-like fibres
- hyder ali — 1722–82, Islamic prince and military leader of India: ruler of Mysore 1759–82.
- hydrolase — an enzyme that catalyzes hydrolysis.
- hyenalike — Resembling a hyena or some aspect of one.
- hylobates — Plural form of hylobate.
- hymeneals — (plurale tantum) Nuptials.
- hypallage — the reversal of the expected syntactic relation between two words, as in “her beauty's face” for “her face's beauty.”.
- hyperbola — the set of points in a plane whose distances to two fixed points in the plane have a constant difference; a curve consisting of two distinct and similar branches, formed by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone when the plane makes a greater angle with the base than does the generator of the cone. Equation: x 2 /a 2 − y 2 /b 2 = ±1.
- hyperreal — Exaggerated in comparison to reality.
- hypertalk — A verbose semicompiled language by Bill Atkinson and Dan Winkler, with loose syntax and high readability. HyperTalk uses HyperCard as an object management system, development environment and interface builder. Programs are organised into "stacks" of "cards", each of which may have "buttons" and "fields". All data storage is in zero-terminated strings in fields, local, or global variables; all data references are through "chunk expressions" of the form: 'last item of background field "Name List" of card ID 34217'. Flow of control is event-driven and uses message-passing among scripts that are attached to stack, background, card, field and button objects.
- hypethral — (of a classical building) wholly or partly open to the sky.
- hywel dda — known as Hywel the Good. died 950 ad, Welsh prince. He united S and N Wales and codified Welsh law
- idle away — time, hours: pass lazily
- illegally — forbidden by law or statute.
- ineffably — incapable of being expressed or described in words; inexpressible: ineffable joy.
- inequally — In an inequal manner.
- inexactly — In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately.