9-letter words containing l, y, e, h, o
- 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 By 1991 Honeywell had withdrawn from the computer business, focussing more on aeropspace.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.
- hopefully — in a hopeful manner: We worked hopefully and energetically, thinking we might finish first.
- 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.
- huey long — Crawford Williamson [wil-yuh m-suh n] /ˈwɪl yəm sən/ (Show IPA), 1815–78, U.S. surgeon.
- hugeously — hugely
- humoredly — (only in combination with good, bad or ill) American standard spelling of humouredly.
- 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
- hydrocele — an accumulation of serous fluid, usually about the testis.
- hydrogels — Plural form of hydrogel.
- hydrolase — an enzyme that catalyzes hydrolysis.
- hydrolize — (intransitive) To undergo hydrolization.
- hydrolyse — Alternative spelling of hydrolyze.
- hydrolyte — a substance subjected to hydrolysis.
- hydrolyze — Break down (a compound) by chemical reaction with water.
- hyetology — the branch of meteorology dealing with precipitation.
- hylobates — Plural form of hylobate.
- hylophyte — a plant that grows in woods
- 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.
- hyperbole — obvious and intentional exaggeration.
- hypostyle — having many columns carrying the roof or ceiling: a hypostyle hall.
- isohyetal — a line drawn on a map connecting points having equal rainfall at a certain time or for a stated period.
- lyophiled — (of blood, serum, tissue, etc) freeze-dried
- mesophyll — the parenchyma, usually containing chlorophyll, that forms the interior parts of a leaf.
- meyerhold — Vsevolod Emilievich, original name Karl Theodor Kasimir. 1874–c. 1940, Russian theatre director, noted for his experimental nonrealistic productions. He was arrested in 1939 and died in custody
- monoethyl — (organic chemistry, especially in combination) A single ethyl group in a molecule.
- moygashel — an Irish linen
- mycophile — A person who likes hunting for, cooking or eating mushrooms and other edible fungi.
- nephology — The study or contemplation of clouds.
- northerly — moving, directed, or situated toward the north.
- oenophily — a liking for or expert knowledge of wine
- ogreishly — in the manner of an ogre
- phenology — the science dealing with the influence of climate on the recurrence of such annual phenomena of animal and plant life as budding and bird migrations.
- photolyse — to cause to undergo or to undergo photolysis
- photolyze — to break down molecules with light.
- phylogeny — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
- playhouse — a theater.
- polyether — a polymeric ether.
- polyphase — having more than one phase.
- polyphone — a polyphonic letter or symbol.
- polythene — polyethylene.
- schoolery — something that is taught
- sea holly — the eryngo, Eryngium maritimum.
- shore fly — any of numerous small black flies of the family Ephydridae, found in damp or marshy locations.
- southerly — a wind that blows from the south.