9-letter words containing l, o, i
- hollister — a town in W California.
- holliston — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- hollowing — having a space or cavity inside; not solid; empty: a hollow sphere.
- holocrine — (of a gland) releasing a secretion that is a product of disintegrating cells.
- hologynic — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in females (opposed to holandric).
- 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 tide — a time or season for special religious observance
- holy writ — the Scriptures.
- home life — a person's life at home; private life
- homebuilt — Constructed at home, rather than being obtained from a manufacturer etc.
- homegirls — Plural form of homegirl.
- homeliest — lacking in physical attractiveness; not beautiful; unattractive: a homely child.
- 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.